gir

Definition of gir

1) town, village, place, field 2) mountain, hill, knoll, mound 3) great, grand, big, large

Other forms

gird, girt, kirt, jerd, cerd, Zaza/Kirdki girze

Example Sentences

Name of towns with gir(d/t) prefix;
Eleskîrt, Malazgîrt, Mazgîrt, Yazdegerd etc.

Names of Kurdish village or hamlets with "gir" prefixes;
Girikê Legê, Girikê Pîrê, Girikê Izêr etc.
Girikê ...: village/small hill of...[name]

Non-Kurdish city and town names with "gir" suffixes;
Novgorod, Stuttgart, Volgograd etc.

Etymology

From Avestan garay-, gairi- "mountain, mountain range",

Proto-Indo-European root meaning *gʷrH- "mountain",
Sanskrit giri- "hill", ghra "house",
Latvian gãršas "swamp, marsh", garš "wood, forest",
Proto-Slavic *gorà "mountain",
Croatian gòra "mountain, (dial.) forest",
Albanian garth "hedge",
Greek khortos "pasture",
Phrygian -gordum "town",
Latin hortus "garden",
Old Irish gort "field",
Breton garz "enclosure, garden",
Old English gyrdan "to gird," geard "fenced enclosure, garden",
German garten "garden",
Lithuanian gardas "pen, enclosure",
Old Church Slavonic gradu "town, city",
Russian gorod, -grad "town, city", gorá "mountain",
Polish góra "mountain",
Czech hora "mountain".

Synonyms

gird
Updated on December 24, 2023

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