Kurdish

Noun

پاراو • ‎(paraw)

1. old woman; an Armenian nurse

References

• Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “պառաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935

Persian

Etymology

Akin to Old Armenian պառաւ ‎(paṙaw), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

پاراو • ‎(pârâv)

1. old woman

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “ﭙاراو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul