how do you say...finished in kurmanci??

[pepula]

im trying to improve on my kurmanci dialect

so finished in arabic is xelas yeah
finished/over or end in english
in sorani its tewaw


but what is it in kurmanci??

[Piling]

Dawî.

[pepula]

ok ive never heard of that
but thanks
so what is temam? turkish? my daddy said it was arabic and turkish probably

[sorgul]

i say xales but i didnt know it was arabic

[zering]

i say xales but i didnt know it was arabic

It is arabic, we are using so many arabic words in our dialect

[dyaoko]

persians and turks use a lot a lot arabic words...persian is almost arabic.

if you know arabic you can undrestand 60% of persian.

kurds also use arabic words...but SO SO SO LESS than persians..
our language resisted against arabic domination.
so did our culture and our music and our everything...we are one of the nations that her language is VIRGIN and WILD .

[Diri]

It is right as Piling says...

End/Finish= Dawî/Davî

And "Tamam" is Arabic...


Turks have take a LOT of words from Arabic too... Just like Persian... But you don't hear it in Turkish because they say the words in a totaly different way... Very softly! LOL

[Piling]

Temam is Arabic, but the strange thing is that I learned to say "temam" in Turkey, while in Syria, everybody say "aywa" and I think that the right Kurdish is (as I heard from gundî) : "erê".

[heval]

Temam is Arabic, but the strange thing is that I learned to say "temam" in Turkey, while in Syria, everybody say "aywa" and I think that the right Kurdish is (as I heard from gundî) : "erê".

Erê just means yes

Don't they say Tem'an in Arabic?

[Piling]

In Syria, I never heard Kurds say "temam", but "aywa" or "erê". They could sey temam, I suppose, but not often. Temam seems typical of Kurds from Turky or Turks.

In Syria, for example when someone calls you by phone you do'nt say "efendim" but ""aywa". I don't know what you answer in Southern Kurdistan.

[heval]

In Syria, I never heard Kurds say "temam", but "aywa" or "erê". They could sey temam, I suppose, but not often. Temam seems typical of Kurds from Tuerky or Turks.

Yes, but temam in Turkey is used in a different context. In Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, Turks and Kurds tend to say temam when they want to say "Okay". However, in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan, Persians and Kurds use the word to say "finished". But erê, in all parts of Kurdistan, means yes.

To add to the confusion: In Southeastern Kurdistan (Soran areas) Kurds say "tewaw" instead of temam

[Piling]

However, in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan, Persians and Kurds use the word to say "finished"

For saying "finished", Northern and Western Kurds say "xelas""

[Piling]

Erê just means yes

Yeah but belê too means "yes". Sometimes I heard Western Kurds say "erê, erê "where Northern Kurds would have said "temam".

[ChiChalok]

khalas and tamam are both arabic

[heval]

Erê just means yes

Yeah but belê too means "yes". Sometimes I heard Western Kurds say "erê, erê "where Northern Kurds would have said "temam".