Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. (masculine) meter (device that measures things or indicates a physical quantity)
  2. (masculine) measurer (person who measures something)

Têgeh

مهتر

mitir

Pircarînî

A2
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ˈmeːtər/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

From Middle Dutch meter, metere, equivalent to meten (“to measure”) + -er. Compare English meter, German Messer m. In some compounds conflated with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron), which is unrelated or, according to one theory, distantly related with the Dutch verb.

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