Kurdish–English dictionary

tîrmeh

The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

tîrojandin

The process of radiating waves or particles.

tirs

Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

tirşo

Rumex acetosa, a taxonomic species within the family Polygonaceae, garden sorrel, native in much of Europe.

tirûş

The ability to last a long time by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.

tişt

(informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

tiştek

An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.

tîtan

(Greek god) Any of the race of giant gods in Greek mythology that preceded and was overthrown by the Olympian gods.

tivir

A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.

tiwalet

(now, historical, or, archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. [from 17th c.]

tiyatro

(countable) A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

tizbî

Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]

to

The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

Togo

A country in West Africa. Official name: Togolese Republic.

Tokyo

A prefecture and capital city of Japan.

Tonga

A country and archipelago of Polynesia in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga. Capital and largest city: Nuku'alofa.

top

(archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.

tor

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version (HTTPS), among others.

torinî

(uncountable) The quality of being noble.

tornekar

A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.

tortorîk

(anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.

toşpiya zençelokê

(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.

tot bûn

(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

totîk

The harsh note produced by a typical car horn.

toz

(countable, obsolete) A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.

Trablûs

The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.

transîstor

(semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.

trên

a dirge or lamentation

trenê bin erd

(informal) The London Underground.

tsunamî

(proscribed) A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.)

tû

Profound; careful.

tuberkuloz

(pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria. [from 1839]

tûfiringî

(mechanical engineering) A rotary cutting tool typically used in milling machines.

tûj

Having sharp points like needles.

tûk

(physiology) A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.

tulum

A sack or bag for feeding a horse, mule, ox or similar animal, generally on the move or away from the home stable or paddock. Designed to be attached to harness and slipped over the animal's nose to permit feeding while eliminating spillage; designs vary.

Tûnis

Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.

turbîn

Any of various rotary machines that use the kinetic energy of a continuous stream of fluid (a liquid or a gas) to turn a shaft.

tûreşk

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

turîzm

The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.

tûşêmî

The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.

tuxm

(countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc.

û

An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China.

ufuq

The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

Uganda

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

Ukrayna

A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.

unîk

(figurative) Strongly or sublimely beautiful or pleasurable.

uranyûm

The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.

urdu

Modern Standard Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language with native speakers mainly in Pakistan and North India. It is a standardized and Persianized version of Hindustani.

Urdun

A small town, the county seat of Garfield County, Montana.

Ûrisî

(uncountable) The Russian language.

Ûzbêkistan

A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.

vac

(phonology) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

vajî

Difficult to deal with or to operate.

vajîna

(relational) Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.

vala

(figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

vala kirin

(transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.

valageh

A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.

valahî

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.

Valencia

The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.

vebêj

(film, and, television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

vebûn

(intransitive, idiomatic, LGBTQ) To disclose to others about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity, where previously this had been kept secret.

veçar kirin

To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

veçerxandin

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

vegerandin

(intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. [from the end of the 17th c.]

vegerîn

(transitive) To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.

vegirtin

(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.

vegotin

(transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.

vegotin, derbir

(legal) Statements made by a witness in court.

veketin

(transitive, now, rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

vekirî

Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.

vekirin

To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.

vekolîn

(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

vektor

(mathematics, physics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

vemêjok

Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

Venezuela

A country in South America. Official name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Capital and largest city: Caracas.

Versailles

A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.

veşarin

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

veşartin

(intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

vexwarin

(colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).

vexwirak

A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, usually excluding water.

vîkîng

(historical) Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.

vir

(location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.

viyan

(transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. [from 8th c.]

Viyana

A state of Austria, including the city, within the state of Lower Austria.

Viyetnam

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

vîyolonsel

A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.

vîzvîzik

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

vodka

A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.

voliera

(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.

volkan

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

volt

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

vûlva

(anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.

wargeh

The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

Warşova

The capital city of Poland; the capital city of Masovian Voivodeship.

wate

The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.

weba

(now, _, rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.

wefat

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.

wêje

The body of all written works.

wekhev

A person or thing of equal status to others.

wekî din jî

(conjunctive, idiomatic) Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.

welat

(transitive) To bring to land.

welîaht

The heir to a throne.

wêne

(law enforcement) A photograph of a person's face, especially one taken by the police during an arrest.

wêne kişandin

(transitive) To take a photograph of.

weqf

Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.

werdek

A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.

werdeka kûvî

(countable) Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

werger

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

wergerr

(software engineering) The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

wergerrandin

(transitive, dated) To give up; to yield; to surrender.

weritandin

(transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).

werşeq

Lynx lynx, one of the species of lynx.

werz

A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.

westîn

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.

wesyet

The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased.

wezîr

A blue bunting of North America (Passerina cyanea).

wîkî

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

Wîkîferheng

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wîkîpediya

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

winda kirin

(transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.

wîskî

(Ireland, US, England) A drink of whiskey.

wize

Ready vitality and vigour. [from mid 19th c.]

wolfram

A rare metallic chemical element (symbol W, from Latin wolframium) with an atomic number of 74.

xaç

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

xaçerê

A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.

xal

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

xalxalok

Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.

xane

A section or subdivision of a prison.

xanî

The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

xapandin

(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

xar

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

xaşxaşik

The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.

xav

In a natural, untreated state.

xaxem

A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.

xebat

(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

xebathez

Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.

xebatkare rojanî

(UK) A cleaner who comes in daily.

xeftan

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

xela

(transitive, dated, obsolete) To cause or produce a scarcity in something.

xelaskarê

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.

xeletî

(chiefly, _, computing, engineering, _, jargon) A problem that needs fixing.

xelîfe

The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.

xem

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.

xemgîn

Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

xencer

(weapons) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

xenîm

(arithmetic) A number that is to be multiplied by another (the multiplier).

Xeşeyerşa

(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.

xestî

The quality of being intense.

xêvjimêr

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media. [from 20th c.]