Mêtî

heyf

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. (feminine) pity, shame, regret
  2. (feminine) vengeance, revenge

Pircarînî

B2
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Borrowed from Arabic حَيْف (ḥayf, “injustice”).. Sense 2 is back-formation from heyf vegerrandin/heyf vekirin (“to avenge; lit. to do injustice back, to return cruelty”), displaced native tol in most Northern dialects. That sense is also found in Armenian հայիֆ (hayif).

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