Kurdish–English dictionary

îrîdyûm

(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.

îrlendî

(uncountable) The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.

îro

The current day or date.

îş kirin

(intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

Îsa

(historical, religion) One of a variety of persons or entities in western Manichaeism, of whom some correspond closely to the Christian conception of Jesus of Nazareth.

isaîlî

A person from Israel or of Israeli descent.

îşemî

(cardiology, pathology) Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).

Îskoçya

A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.

Îslam

A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.

Îslamabad

The capital city of Pakistan, located within the Islamabad Capital Territory.

Îsland

An island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe.

Îslanda

An island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe.

îsot

(North America, Philippines) Any of several bell-shaped varieties of Capsicum annuum, an edible, sweet, generally mild (not spicy) fruit, originating in the New World.

îstîfa

(chiefly, uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.

istiran

(ornithology) A vocalisation made by a bird, more complex than a call, for purposes associated with courtship and territory.

îtalî

(uncountable) The official language of Italy, also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Argentina, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Îtalya

A large peninsula in Southern Europe protruding into the Mediterranean Sea and shaped like a boot. The mountain range of Apennines runs across it from north to south. Occupied almost entirely by Italy.

îtîdal

The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes

îyon

An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.

îzotop

(nuclear physics) Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. Thus, isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number.

Jamaîka

An island and country in the Caribbean.

jan

(often, in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.

janedil

Emotional distress or pain, often caused by a loved one or their absence.

janr

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

Japon

A country and archipelago of East Asia. Capital and largest city: Tokyo.

Japonî

Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.

jar

A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

jê

(anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

jê avêtin

To thrust upon; to impose.

jê pê ve

(sequence) Next in order of place.

jê xwarin

(transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

jehr

A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

jehrnasî

(sciences, pharmacology) The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.

jêkirin

(US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.

ji

(formal, somewhat, dated) For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)

ji alî

Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

ji ber ku

(formal, literary) Because.

ji ber xwe ve

Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

ji bilî

Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of.

ji bilî wilo

In addition; besides; further; what's more (i.e. to denote additional information).

ji dema ku

Continuously since a specified time or event.

ji hev cuda kirin

To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.

ji kar avêtin

(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.

ji navê rabûn

(intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

ji niha û pê ve

(formal, temporal) From now on; from this time on.

ji rê derxistin

(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

ji xew rabûn

Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

ji xewê rabûn

(transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

jijo

Erinaceus europaeus, the hedgehog that inhabits much of Western and Central Europe.

jîn

To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

jin kirin

(transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]

jinebî

A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.

jînenîgarî

A person's life story, especially one published.

jîngeh

A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).

jixwe

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

jiyan

Life.

jor

In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream. [first attested around 1150–1350]

jorîn

Superior in rank.

jubîle

A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage. [from late 14th c.]

jûdo

A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.

jûjî

(military) Ellipsis of Czech hedgehog (“an antitank obstacle constructed from three steel rails”).

kabare

An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.

kabûs

(European folklore) A nightmare; a spectre or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore; a female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.

kafirkeratî

A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.

kafkayî

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

kaj

Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.

kajû

The jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.

kaktûs

(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

kakût

The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.

kalsiyûm

The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.

kalûte

Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

Kamerûn

A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.

kamyon

(countable, uncountable, US, Canada, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.

Kanada

A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto.

kanalîzasyon

A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

kanî

(computing, typography, metonymically) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

kanik

(rare) The eyelid.

kapîtalîzm

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kar

An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.

kar kirin

In good working order.

karbon

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.

karçîn

A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

kareba

(physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. [from 18th c.]

kareva

(particle) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.

karîban

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

Karîbîk

A continental region centered on the Caribbean Sea, consisting of those countries located in the sea and in bordering areas of South America and Central America.

karigerî

(uncountable) The ability or power to be effective.

karîn

All right, acceptable, permitted.

karîzmatîk

With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive

karker

A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

karok

A bung or cork.

Kartaca

(historical) An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia. [16th cent.]

kartograf

One who makes maps or charts.

kartol

A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.

karwerî

(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

kaş kirin

(transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).

katalanî

Of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain.

katalîzor

(chemistry) A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.

katapult

A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.

kavdan

(now, _, rare) A (neutral) condition or state. [from 14th c.]

kavil

(countable, sometimes, in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.

kaxet

A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.

kaxez

(slang) Money.

kaxizê dîwaran

(uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

kebab

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

kebûde

A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.

kêç

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

keçel

Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

keçmet

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

keder

(countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

kêf

Joy; pleasure.

kefalet

(countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

kefçe

A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.

kefçik

(intransitive, slang) To take place, happen.

kefen

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

keftin

(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell. [from 16th c.]

kehanet

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

kel

A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.

kelaw

(headwear) A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

kelbetan

A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.

kelem

A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address e.g. one's girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse.

kelime

(by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

kêlsim

A decorative strip around the edge of something.

kelû

(geography) Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.

kêm

Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable. [from early 15th c.]

kêm xistin

(transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.

kêm zêde

Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)

keman

(slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.

Kembodja

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia. Capital: Phnom Penh. Former name: Kampuchea.

kemer

(architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch

kemera avê

An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.

kêmzêde

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. [from before 1150]

ken

A boisterous laugh.

kendav

(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.

kengê

(interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.

kengî

At the same time that, during the same time when: while.

kengirû

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]

kenîn

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

kenîsa jahodya

(countable, Judaism) A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.

Kenya

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

kêr

A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.

kêrasû

Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

kêrefiz

(uncountable, vegetable) The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.

kerefs

A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.

kerese

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

kêrhatî

Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.

kerî

A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

keroşk

(uncountable) The meat from this animal.

kerr

Unable (or partially able) to hear.

kerxane

A confused, muddled, or messed-up condition or state; a ridiculously chaotic situation; confusion or chaos regarded as the normal state.