Kurdish–English dictionary

a

A traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.

a rastî

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

ab

(zoology) In placental mammals, a fluid contained within the amnion membrane that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus.

aberasyon

(astronomy) A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. [Mid 18th century.]

abîde

A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.

abon

A doughnut (donut) with a sweet filling.

abone bûn

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

abor

Something that provides support or nourishment.

aborî

Returning a benefit that justifies the initial investment; economical.

aborînasî

(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

aboriyî

Pertaining to an economy.

absolutîzm

(political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism. [First attested in the early 19th century.]

absûrd

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. [from mid-16th c.]

açar

The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]

açelya

A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea.

acincî

The group of all citizens; citizens taken collectively.

aciz kirin

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

acizbûnî

A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

acizî

Boredom or tediousness; ennui.

açık ordugâh

An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.

açık oturum

A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.

adaj

A concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.

adanî

Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

adar

The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.

adetperest

In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.

adî

Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

adil

treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased

adio

(colloquial) Goodbye.

administratîv

Of or relating to administering or administration.

adrênalîn

(hormone) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.

adres

A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. [from 17th c.]

afar

A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.

afganî

A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan; a person of Afghan citizenship or nationality and their descendants. [from late 18th c.]

Afganistan

Of, from or relating to Afghanistan.

afirandin

(chiefly, US, sometimes, proscribed) To create a work as its author.

afirmend

(religion) A god who created the Universe; God.

afret

Belonging to females; typically used by females.

Afrîka

The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.

afyon

(uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

agahdar kirin

(transitive, formal) To announce.

agahî

(countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.

agahname

(computing, sometimes, attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

agir

A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

agir kirin

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

agir vêxistin

(transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)

agiravêj

A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.

agirbar

Of or relating to fire.

agirbazî

A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

agirdank

An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.

agire

(disease) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

agirê şevê

(Northern US, Western US, Florida) Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.

agirkuj

(firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.

agnostîk

A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.

agnostîsîzm

The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.

agroke

(disease) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.

ajal

(biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.

ajans

An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.

ajar

(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

ajawe

(transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.

ajel

(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

ajokar

A member of a board in an association or company, especially the board of directors.

ajoker

(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.

ajoname

(American spelling) A document issued to a specific person by a government authority, permitting this person to drive one or more classes of motor vehicle on public roads and highways, often used as an identification document.

ajotin

(transitive) To deport.

ajotvan

A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

ajovan

Something that drives something else.

akademîk

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. [from late 16th century]

akasîya

(countable) A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

akne

A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.

akordîyan

A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).

akort kirin

(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

akrobat

An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.

aksiyom

(philosophy) A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.

aktîv

Dynamic, energetic.

akwaryûm

Someone with an Aquarius star sign

ala

(heraldry) The principal standard of a knight.

alaş

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

alav

Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

alayîş

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

albatr

A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

albîno

(countable) A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.

alegori

(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

alelade

Typical.

alfabetîk

According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.

algûne

An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.

alî

A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

alik

A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.

alîkar

(legal) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator. [from 1414]

alîkarî

(countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.

alîkarî kirin

(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

alimê dînî

A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.

alkan

(organic compound) Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (methane, ethane, etc.).

alkol

(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.

alkolîk

Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.

alkolîzm

(disease) Addiction to alcohol.

Allah

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

alman

Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).

Almanya

A country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany. Capital and largest city: Berlin.

alole

A type of mechanical seal that provides a tortuous path to help prevent leakage.

Alp

A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

alûşk

The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.

alyaj

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

amade kirin

To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

amanşok

A machine for washing dishes.

amar

A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.

Amazon

(sometimes, attributive) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.

ambasad

An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.

ambulans

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]

amî

General; covering or encompassing everything.

amîp

(biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.

amnezî

(pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness.

amoj

The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.

amojin

The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

amonyak

(inorganic compound) A gaseous, toxic compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste.

ampûtasyon

surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.

Amsterdam

A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; the capital city of the Netherlands.

amûr

An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:

amyant

(mineral) Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.

an

Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by “or”.

Anatoliya

A peninsula in West Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.