Mane (English)
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- dark
- right, damn, bloody
Synonyms
mal éclairé
s’obscurcir
Pircarînî
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/sɔ̃bʁ/
Etîmolojî (English)
In summary
Inherited from Old French sombre, likely from Latin sub umbra (“in/under the shade”); compare Spanish and Portuguese sombra (“shade, shadow”). Possibly derived through a verb *sombrer, from a Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre (“to shade, enshadow”), though this does not seem necessary. Compare also Old French essombre, with a different prefix.
Vê nîşan bike
Bilêvkirina xwe baştir bike
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