guruv
Romani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑁄𑀭𑀽𑀯 (gorūva), from Sanskrit गोरूप (gorūpá, “cow-shaped”). Cognate with Hindustani گورُو / गोरू (gorū).
Noun
[edit]guruv m (accusative guruves, nominative plural guruva, accusative plural guruven)
References
[edit]- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gōrūpá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 231
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “gurúv”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 103b
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o guruv, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 158a