lawaz

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms
  • lewaz, levaz – Moks[1]

Etymology

Cognate with Hawrami لاواز‎ (lāwāz), لاۋاز‎ (lāʋāz, “thin, lean”).

Adjective

lawaz[2]

Northern Kurdish lawaz
Central Kurdish لاواز‎ (lawaz)
Southern Kurdish لاواز‎ (lawaz)
  1. thin, slim, slender, lean; puny, undersized; emaciated (from hunger or disease), skin and bones
  2. weak
    lawaz kirin ― to make someone lose weight; to weaken
  3. lean (of meat)

Descendants

References
  1. Orbeli, I. A. (2002), “lewaz, levaz”, in Izbrannyje trudy v dvux tomax. Tom II. Vypusk 2. Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Selected Works in Two Volumes. Volume II. Issue 2. Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Yerevan: Academy Press “Gitutjun”, →ISBN, pages 113–114
  2. Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “lawaz”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 346ab
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