Kurdish–English dictionary

medalya

A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.

medrese

(Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.

medûsa

(zoology) A jellyfish; specifically, a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. [from 18th c.]

medya

A format for communicating or presenting information.

medyûm

Someone who foretells.

mefhûm

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

meh

A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

mehanedar

Paid monthly as opposed to weekly.

mehdekirî

(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

mehîn

(intransitive) To jump a short distance.

mehkeme kirin

(transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).

mêjandin

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

mejî

(uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.

mejîk

(neuroanatomy) Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the back of the cerebrum and is formed of two lateral lobes and a median lobe. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.

mêjîn

(transitive, intransitive) To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth.

mêjû

A fairy tale or other story read to somebody, usually a child, before they sleep.

mekanîk

(physics) The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass

mekanîzma

A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.

Meke

(figuratively, sometimes, _, offensive) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.

Mêkong

A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.

melodî

A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

melûlî

Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

memik

(colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.

memûr

The current holder of an office or title; (specifically, Christianity) the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice.

menfur

Detestable or repugnant. [Early 19th century.]

menopoz

The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.

meqes

A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.

mêr

man, male

mêranî

(uncountable, figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.

merasim

(uncountable) A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality.

mêrebî

(of a previously married person) Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.

merengozî

(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.

merg

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

meriyet

(uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

mermer

(uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone. [from 12th c.]

merov

The genus Homo.

mersiye

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]

mertîn

(now, historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.

mêş

(informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.

meshyan

An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.

meşîn

(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

meslek

A job or occupation.

meşrûiyet

Lawfulness.

metabolîzma

(physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

metafizîk

(philosophy) A philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics.

meteorolojî

The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.

meth

(transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.

meth kirin

(transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner.

mêtin

(transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.

metran

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

mêvan

One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

mêvanxane

An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]

mêxek

(uncountable, or, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

mexfîretkirin

(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.

meydan

An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

meydana şerrî

The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

meymûn

A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]

mezad

A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

mêze

An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.

mezel

A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

mezheb

(chiefly, derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.

mezin

Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.

mezinahî

(uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.

Mezopotamya

(historical) A geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.

mî

A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.

micêz

(colloquial, lighthearted, often, childish) Delicious.

mîde

(by extension, informal) Courage; determination.

mîgren

(pathology) A headache affecting one side of the head.

Mihemmed

(Islam, uncountable) The figure who introduced Islam, and the man to whom the Qur'an was revealed; considered a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís.

mihendis

Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally) , a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.

mihtemelen

In all likelihood.

mihvan

(sports, usually, in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

mij

(figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.

mijmij

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

mijûlahî

An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.

mîkroprosesor

An integrated circuit.

mil

(dated) Tributary.

milîmetre

An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of 1⁄1000 of a metre. Symbol: mm

milyon

(long scale, and, short scale) The cardinal number 1 000 000: 106; a thousand thousand.

milyonem

The ordinal form of the number one million.

mîmarî

The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.

mimkin

(usually, not comparable) Able but not certain to happen; neither inevitable nor impossible.

mîna

(idiomatic, conjunctive) In the sense of.

Minecraft

(video games) A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items, build structures, fight mobs to get experience points, enchant items and defeat bosses to earn rewards.

miqale

(literally, now, _, rare) Any work that is done at home; housework.

Mirin

The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

miriyê hevalê xwe

Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.

mîrkut

A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.

mirov

human

mişale

A genus, Gypsophila, of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Europe, Asia and north Africa.

mişar

(geography) A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.

mişe

Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

misilman

Being or relating to a believer of Islam.

Misir

A country in North Africa and West Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.

mişk

The universally common mouse of the species Mus musculus.

mîsojînî

Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.

misra

A verse (in poetry).

mişt

Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.

mist dan

(transitive) To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.

mitir

A device that measures things.

mîtolojî

(countable, _, and, _, uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.

mixare

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

mixrikî

(rhetoric) The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.

mizgeft

(Islam) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.

moda

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

modernîteya

(history) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.

moldawî

An inhabitant of the Republic of Moldova.

molekûl

(chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.

mom

A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

Monako

A city-state in Western Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.

Mongolya

A country in East Asia. Capital and largest city: Ulaanbaatar.

monoteyîzm

The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

Montenegro

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Podgorica. Part of Yugoslavia until 2003, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.

morî

(heraldic charge) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.

morîna

A fish, Huso huso, that is a source of caviar, which is found in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

Mosko

A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia.

Moskova

(with the) A river in Russia, a tributary of the Oka.

moskovîyûm

The chemical element with atomic number 115.

motorbot

(nautical) Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.

motorsiklêt

Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle.

movik

(skeleton) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

mox

(anatomy) The fatty vascular tissue that fills the cavities of bones, being the place where new blood cells are produced.

Moxolistan

A country in East Asia. Capital and largest city: Ulaanbaatar.

moz

A small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.

Mozambik

A country in East Africa and Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Mozambique (since 1990). Capital: Maputo.

mû

The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.

muhim

Having relevant and crucial value; having import.

muhimat

Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.

muhtemel

Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.

mûm

(ball sports) A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.

mûrî

Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.

Mûsa

(biblical character) The pharaonic patriarch who led the enslaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.

mûsîk

(uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

muwekîl

A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.

mûz

(informal) A helicopter.

muze

A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

muzîk

Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

muzîkvan

A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.

Myanmar

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Also known as Burma (which was formerly the official name).

na

A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees to lower her body in deference.

Nairobî

The capital city of Kenya.

nal

The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.

nalcax

A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

Namîbiya

A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Namibia. Capital: Windhoek.

Namîbya

A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Namibia. Capital: Windhoek.

namûs

(poetic, archaic) Before; sooner than.

nan

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

nane

The flavoring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.

nanpêj

A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.

nar

The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.