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gotin

Sentences

Meaning

Concepts

Şîlanê jî ev gotin
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dubare kirin
🔁

.

Shilan also repeated these words.

Wan gotin
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ku ew
👨

ê vegerin.

They said they would come back.

Ji gelê xwe re gotin
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û şîret kirine.

They told and advised their people.

Bi piranî ji bo teswîra bihar û baxan tê gotin
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.

It is mostly used to describe spring and gardens.

Ji gera cîhanê ya li
🔛

derdora xwe re , roj
🌞

tê gotin
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.

The round of the world around itself is called a day.

Ji wan rojên girîng û pîroz re cejin
🎉

tê gotin
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.

Those important and holy days are called holidays.

to say

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡoːˈtɪn/

Borrowed from Persian

Cognate with Persian

Cognate with Central Kurdish

Cognate with Persian

In summary

From Proto-Iranian *gáwbati, from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, cry”) with a *-b⁽ʰ⁾- enlargement, perhaps connected to the synonymous *ǵʰewH-. Most probably a loan from Persian گفتن (goftan, “speak”), replacing native *bê(h)tin (somewhat preserved in most Kurdish languages and in the present stem -bêj- and galebêt, a variant of galegot (“chat; rumour”)). Persian verbs that end with -uft- often end with -eft- (or -aft- if transitive) in Kurdish, compare Persian شنفتن (šenoftan) and Southern Kurdish ژنەفتن (jneftin). In this case a *geftin or *gaftin would have been expected, which is found in vegeftin (“to admit”), geft kirin (“to acknowledge”) and probably gef (“threat”) and gep (“cheek; chat”) (as in gep kirin (“to chat, talk”), akin to Persian گپ زدن which is likely Northwestern Iranic in origin).