Where does “balafir” come from?

balafir (Northern Kurdish) comes from Northern Kurdish fir — flight.

balafir (Northern Kurdish): airplane

Definitions

  1. airplane

Ancestry of “balafir”, step by step

balafir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Northern Kurdish fir

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Northern Kurdishfirflight

via Northern Kurdish bala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Northern Kurdishbala—

Words derived from “balafir”

Every word from Northern Kurdish fir →