antêẍ

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms
  • antêx

Etymology

From Armenian անթեղ (antʿeł).[1]

Noun

ant’êẍ[1]

  1. decomposing dung which is thrown onto the hot ashes of a hearth fire in order to save the fire for the next day

References
  1. Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “antêẍ”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 7a
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