girtin

to take, to get, take hold of, hold, arrest, catch, sieze

- Gotinên te hev din nagrin = Tiştên tu dibêjî hev din nagrin: Your words don't bear each other out.

- Dergîvan derî digire: The gatekeeper closes the gate.

- Bi destê wî girt: He took hold of his (s.o. else's) hand.

- Çûn û hatin sê saet digire: It takes three hours to return.

From Avestan gæræbhiia-

PIE root *ghrebh- “to sieze, reach”,

Sanskrit grbh, grbhnati,
Old Iranian garbaya- “to seize”,
Proto-Germanic *grab-, *grap-,
Old High German garba “sheaf, that which is gathered up together”,
Middle Dutch or Middle Low German grabben “to grab”,
Persian gereftan,
German greifen,
Old Church Slavonic grabiti “to seize, rob”,
Lithuanian grėbti “to rake”,
English grab, grasp, grip, grapple