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Kurdish translation: Balash

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English term or phrase:Free
Kurdish translation:Balash
Entered by: Globalingo (X)

05:02 Apr 1, 2002
English to Kurdish translations [Non-PRO]
/ FREE
English term or phrase: Free (as free of cost)
In Kurmanji dialect (Latin script), how do we translate the word "FREE" where FREE means "free of cost"
Globalingo (X)
Local time: 21:36
Balash or Khoraiy or Mejaanaan
Explanation:
Greetings.

Three terms for "free" (i.e., without cost or charge):

1. Balash
(this is actually a loan-word from Arabic and commonly used in NW Iraq and SE Turkey, where I first worked with Kurds)

or

2. khoraiy

3. Another Arabic term is sometimes used:

mejaanaan

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles
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Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 09:06
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thank you very much
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5Balash or Khoraiy or Mejaanaan
Stephen Franke
5Additional variant spellings of Kurdish khoray
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1 day 14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Balash or Khoraiy or Mejaanaan


Explanation:
Greetings.

Three terms for "free" (i.e., without cost or charge):

1. Balash
(this is actually a loan-word from Arabic and commonly used in NW Iraq and SE Turkey, where I first worked with Kurds)

or

2. khoraiy

3. Another Arabic term is sometimes used:

mejaanaan

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles


    Field notes; Kurdish colleagues in US, Iraq and Sweden
Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 09:06
Native speaker of: English
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thank you very much
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2 days 17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Additional variant spellings of Kurdish khoray


Explanation:
Greetings again.

Two other variant English spellings of that Kurdish term for "free" (gratis) include:

1. xorayi

2. khorayi

(The variances in spelling depend pretty much on who is doing the phonetic transliteration.)

HTH. Good luck.

Regards from southern California (home of a considerable and expanding Kurdish community.)

Stephen H. Franke


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Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 09:06
Native speaker of: English
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