Kurdish–English dictionary

anatomî

The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

And

Synonym of Andes Mountains.

anemî

(American spelling, uncountable, pathology) A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.

angaştin

(reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.

Angola

Synonym of angora (cat).

anîn

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

anîn bîra xwe

(impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.

anîn pêş

(ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.

anksiyete

Trouble; distress; tweag.

anonîm

(not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible.

antîlop

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.

antolojî

A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.

antrepo

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

antropolojî

The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.

aort

(anatomy) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

aqil

The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.

aqildar

Carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent.

aqit

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

ar

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

arandin

(transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. [ca. 1350–1470]

araq

A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.

arbijî

(chiefly, colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.

ard

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

ardû

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

aren

(historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.

arezû kirin

(transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).

argon

The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas.

arî

(uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.

arîşe

(economics) A period of major economic contraction.

arîtmetîk

The mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Arjantîn

A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.

arkeolog

Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

arkeolojî

The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.

arketîp

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.]

Arşîmed

(astronomy) A large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium.

artêş

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

artîkel

(grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).

arxîpel

(collective, geography) A group of islands.

arzûmend

(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.

aş

A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.

asaw

(pathology, oncology) An abnormal new growth of disorganized tissue in animals or plants.

asayîş

The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.

aşê bayî

An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.

aşiftandin

To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise. [from 16th c.]

aşifte

A sexually immoral woman.

aşîkar

Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.

aşîkarbûn

The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.

asîman

(religion) Heaven.

asimetrî

Absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.

asimilasyon

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

asin

Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron. (Said mainly of iron group elements, in any sense of that term.)

asinger

A person who forges iron.

aşît

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

asîtan

(North America, Australia, India) The elementary school grade before first grade.

aşkera kirin

(transitive) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

asoyî

Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

aşpêj

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

asteng bûn

To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.

asteroîd

(astronomy) A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.

aştî

(UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

astîk

A pimp.

astrofizik

The branch of astronomy or physics that deals with the physical properties of celestial bodies and with the interaction between matter and radiation in celestial bodies and in the space between them.

astrolojî

Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies. [from 14th c.]

aşxane

(countable, uncountable) A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

Asya

The largest continent, located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.

asyayî

(US, Canada, Australia, NZ) A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia.

atemce

Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

Atîna

(Greek god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.

atlebûn

An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

atletik

Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.

atmosfer

A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.

atom

(chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. [from 16th c.]

av

water

ava

That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.

ava bûn

Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

ava kirin

(transitive) To combine from various elements.

avakirin

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

avantaj

An advantage.

avêtin

(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

avêtin erdê

(transitive) To defeat (someone); to overcome.

avêtina dîskê

(uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of discus throw.

avevek

A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.

avhewa

The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).

Avignon

A city, the capital of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

avisî

The state of being pregnant; pregnancy.

avnîşana IP

(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.

avokado

The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.

avrêl

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May.

avsaxî

(parapsychology) The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.

avzê

(wetland science, specifically) An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)

awaz

A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

Awistirya

A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Austria. Capital and largest city: Vienna.

ax

(uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.

axa

An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries.

axaftin

To talk more than a few words.

axiftin

(countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.

axîn

A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.

axlebe

As a rule; usually; typically; in most cases.

axtapot

(countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.

axûdar

Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.

axur

(automotive) A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).

ayetula

(Shi'ism) A religious leader in Twelver Shi'ism.

aynştaynyûm

A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.

aysberg

A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

azad

(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge. [from late 20th c.]

azad kirin

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

azadî

(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.

azar

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

azardedil

Anxious or uneasy.

azerdedil

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

ba

A light, gentle wind.

ba kirin

(transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

bab

(Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.

babafingo

(nautical, communications, aviation) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter). [from 9th c.]

baberik

(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.

bablîsok

(meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

bac

The things or people so levied.

bacan

(North America, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

bacansor

A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

baçîk

A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).

badan

(transitive) To bend; to crook.

bafûn

A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.

Bahama

An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

bahîv

Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:

bajar

(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.

bajarî

(Marxism) The capitalist class.

bajêr

A fair or temporary market, often for charity.

bakterî

(microbiology) A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.

bakur

Of, relating to, or coming from the north.

bakurê rojava

The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.

bakurê rojhilat

The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.

bakuzîr

Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.

bal

(mail) For distribution by (the named intermediary).

bala

High, tall, having great height or stature.

bala xwe dan

Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent

balafir

A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.

balafirgeh

An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.

balafirvan

A pilot of an aircraft.

balans

(accounting) A summary of a person's or organization's assets, liabilities and equity as of a specific date.

bale kirin

(transitive) To influence or alter.

balexane

(architecture) A very tall building with a large number of floors. [from 1880s]

balgih

A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.

balîna

An animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.

baliq

(of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

balkêş

Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.

balûk

(pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

balûle

A traditional Turkish wrap (which is made from lavash or yufka flatbread) that is filled with typical doner kebab ingredients.

ban

(architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.

bandor

An event which follows another.

bandorker

Emotionally sensitive.