şan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "san"

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (“honey”), see also Sanskrit कञ्चन (kañcana), Old English hunig.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɑːn/

Noun

şan f

  1. honeycomb

References
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “şan”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 568
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