xilwet
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Northern Kurdish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Ottoman Turkish خلوت (halvet, “solitude; hermitage; privacy”), Persian خلوت (xalvat, “uncrowded, alone”), Arabic خَلْوَة (ḵalwa, “solitude, privacy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]xilwet f
- monastery
- c. 1620, Feqiyê Teyran, a poem
- Nezer bi ya dêm der diket
Dîn bû di nîva xelwetê
Ji xelwetê ew dîn dibû- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1620, Feqiyê Teyran, a poem