ܟܫܘܪܢ kšwrn region, continent
MP kišwarān, plur. of MP kišwar [kyšwl] region, clime, continent (CPD 51; Nyberg 118 f.); ManMP kyšwr /kišwar/, ManParth. kyšfr, qyšfr /kišfar/ clime, region (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 222); NP kišvar a climate, country, quarter or region of the world (Steingass 1034; Horn 191); cf. Av. karšvar- region, continent (AirWb 459). If we rely on the translation provided by LS, this unadapted Persian plural seems to have been felt in Syriac as a singular: cf. § 9.3.2 ● Nöldeke 1893, 35 n. 8 ◆ LS 323b