Diversity in Kurdî...

[pepula]

Kurdî: QAP- but i think its arabic. oh well hats what i call it lol

[heval]

we say Dewrî

[Dilsad]

we say Senik or tebax
English: Seneek or tebakh

Probably what others have refered to seynik

"Ka senikik ji minre bine" "senya xwe bide min"

[ChiChalok]

TEBAX = stove !!

[abdur]

We (from nisêbîn-northern kurdistan) call it sênî.

[Diri]

We (from nisêbîn-northern kurdistan) call it sênî.

Great - we know two families from Nisêbîn/Mêrdîn... Their dialect is cool - but somewhat colored by Arabic...


HEVAL - COOL!


We also call it Dewî (Remeber I told you we "eat up" the "r"'s in the middle of words! )

Must be the Eastern Influence...

[heval]

We (from nisêbîn-northern kurdistan) call it sênî.

Great - we know two families from Nisêbîn/Mêrdîn... Their dialect is cool - but somewhat colored by Arabic...


HEVAL - COOL!


We also call it Dewî (Remeber I told you we "eat up" the "r"'s in the middle of words! )

Must be the Eastern Influence...

That is interesting, so you say Dewî and Tasik?

[Diri]

We (from nisêbîn-northern kurdistan) call it sênî.

Great - we know two families from Nisêbîn/Mêrdîn... Their dialect is cool - but somewhat colored by Arabic...


HEVAL - COOL!


We also call it Dewî (Remeber I told you we "eat up" the "r"'s in the middle of words! )

Must be the Eastern Influence...

That is interesting, so you say Dewî and Tasik?

Yes...

I was trying to figure out - if one was from my mothers side(Shikakî) and one from my fathers side (Dimilî) - but I came to the conclusion that I they both use BOTH of the names... But possibly the Shikak use the name "Tasik" more commonly...

Okey! NEW word:


What do you call "Fruit" in YOUR Kurdî?

Kurdî: Êmîsh
English Pronounciation: Èmeesh

[Piling]

Mêwe. (arabic I know but I learned it from Bedir Xan's courses)
I did'nt know the word êmis, , but I like it !

[abdur]

Fêkî

[sorgul]

we say feki

[Diri]

Fêkî

I knew it...



LOOOOOL

[Dilsad]

We say Feki (feekee in english)...

What about fruit with an s: fruitS

Feki miki

Now, how do you say "vegetable"?

[heval]

Now, how do you say "vegetable"?

We say Sewzî (comes from one of the two Kurdî words for green, Sewz)

[Diri]

Now, how do you say "vegetable"?

We say Sewzî (comes from one of the two Kurdî words for green, Sewz)

Correction...

And it is a CONTRADICTION too (that which I will reveal to you):

Shinahî = "Greenness"
Kesk ="Green"...

So we have actually got three words for Green... Because Shîn, although it means "blue" - can in situations mean "Green"...

And we call Vegetable by the Persian name... Which the Turks got it from:

Kurdî: Sebze
English pron: Sabza

But the one Heval wrote is a Kurdish word for vegetable... And also - Shinahî - is a Kurdish... But much is a word for more than just vegetables - also anything "green" - in e.g. grass, herbs, trees etc...