| 释义 |
Kermanji|kəˈmɑːndʒɪ|
[Kurdish.]
A language of the Iranian group spoken by the Kurds of Kurdistan.
1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 157/2 The present Kurdish language which is called Kermánjí..is an old Persian patois, intermixed to the north with Chaldæan words and to the south with a certain Turanian element which may not improbably have come down from Babylonian times. 1914T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 295 A grammar of Kermanji (Kurdish). 1959Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 274/1 They [sc. the Kurds] speak Kermanji, derived from an old Persian dialect. |