Kurdish–English dictionary

bane

(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

baneşan

(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

banevank

A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.

bangewazî

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

Bangkok

(exonym) The capital city of Thailand.

Bangladeş

A country in South Asia. Official name: People's Republic of Bangladesh. Capital: Dhaka.

bankematîk

(banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.

banket

A large celebratory meal; a feast.

banknot

A piece of currency made of paper or polymer. [from 18th c.]

banyo

A building with baths for communal use.

bapîr

The parent of someone's parent.

bar

A heavy load.

bar kirin

(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.

baran

(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.

Barbados

An island and country in the Caribbean.

barestedar

Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).

barîgeh

Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

barik

A termination or conclusion.

barîn

Indicates that rain is falling.

bariste

(informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

barometre

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

Barselona

The capital city of Catalonia, Spain.

barûdox

Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.

baryûm

The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.

baş

Conventional response to "how are you?", indicating that one is well.

baş erênî

(law) Formally laid down. [from the 14th c.]

baş,çê

Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.

başbîn

Optimistic. [from the 20th c.]

başbûnî

A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

bask

(sports) An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.

basketbol

(countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

baskî

The language of the Basque people.

bastan

Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.

başûr

Of, relating to, or coming from the south.

başûr rojava

The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.

başûr-rojhilat

The intercardinal compass point halfway between east and south; specifically at a bearing of 135°.

baterî

(electrical, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.

bav

Abbreviation of senior A title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name.

bavkal

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.

bavmarî

(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.

bavtî

The state of being a father (biological father, stepfather, adoptive father, foster father; sometimes the biological father specifically).

baw

A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.

bawer

An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

bawer bûn

(idiomatic) To be fooled by; to walk into (a trap) or respond to (a scam or trick).

bawer kirin

(transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

bawerî

(countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.

bawerkirin

A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

baweşînk

A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.

bawil

A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.

bawîşk anîn

(intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

bax

An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

baxçeyê heywanan

A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.

baxlema

(software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.

Bayern

A historic region, former duchy, former kingdom, and modern state of Germany; the modern state includes parts of historical Swabia and Franconia as well as historical Bavaria.

baz dan

(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

bazar

An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.

bazin

A band that supports a wristwatch.

bazirgan

A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.

bazirganî

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

bê

Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.

bêaheng

Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.

bêarmanc

Without aim, purpose, or direction.

bêbal

Unaware; without noticing; careless; inattentive.

bêber

Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious

bêbezm

lacking harmony.

bebir

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

bêcanî

The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.

bêcesaret

(countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.

bêcir

Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

bed

(semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.

bêdawî

(relative to past) Having existed for so great a period of time that its longevity cannot be expressed.

beden

(military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.

bêdeng

For internal combustion engines, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.

bêdengî

A silence, especially after some noise

bedenparêzî

Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.

bedew

(informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.

bedewa

Without paying; free.

bedewî

A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.

bêdiran

Having no teeth.

bêdrok

The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

bêendîşe

Without cares or worries; free of concern or worries; without difficulty.

bêexlaq

Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)

bêezmûn

Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.

bêfiqaqî

Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.

befir

(informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

befr

(uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

befrîk

A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.

begem kirin

(transitive, intransitive) To praise, or express approval for something or someone.

bêgram

Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.

beha

The cost required to gain possession of something.

bêheqî

Violation of the rights of another person or people.

beheşt

(religion) The Garden of Eden.

bêhêz kirin

(transitive) To make poor.

bêhndarî

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

bêhnijîn

(intransitive, medical sign) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

bêhnxweş

(organic chemistry) Derived from benzene.

behre

Capability; the ability to perform some task.

behredar

Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.

Behreyn

An archipelago, island, and country in West Asia in the Persian Gulf. Official name: Kingdom of Bahrain. Capital: Manama.

behs

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

bêhtir

Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.]

bêje

A common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth.

bêjimar

(of a number) Too large to be counted to.

bejnbost

An anonymous person, traditionally especially a published author but now especially an internet rando.

bejnkurt

(star) A dwarf star.

bêkar

(euphemistic) Unemployed.

bêkarî

The condition of being a bachelor.

bêkemasî

Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree. [first attested around 1400]

bêkêmasîtî

(uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.

bêkêr

(idiom) Clumsy; awkward; not dextrous.

Belarûs

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

belavbûn

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

Belçîka

A country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Official name: Kingdom of Belgium. Capital and largest city: Brussels.

belê

Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.

belg

(biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.

belge

(countable) Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.

belgename

(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

Belîze

An English-speaking country in Central America, formerly called British Honduras.

belkî

As can be supported or proven by sound logical deduction, evidence, and precedent, but without absolute certainty.

bellgehênanewe

Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.

belot

(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

belûr

Something, such as an image, that is reflected.

belût

(UK, Ireland, , slang, vulgar) The glans penis.

bêmalî

The state of being homeless.

bênav

Having no name, nameless, unnamed; anonymous.

bend

Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.

bende

A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

bendik

The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.

benefşe

A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.

beng kirin

(transitive) To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).

bengalî

A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.

benî

A servant, especially a domestic servant.

Bênîn

A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.

bênirxî

Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

benîşt

(usually, _, uncountable) A sweet chewing gum formulated to be stretchy so the chewer can blow bubbles with it.

benîştê qajê

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

benîştek

An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean.

benzîn

(uncountable, North America) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.

Beowulf

(poetic) An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself.

bêpêwendî

The state of being indifferent.

beq

A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.

bêqeder

before a countable noun: A large, indefinite number of.

beqliyat

(botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

bêr

The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

bera

Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact. [from 14th c.]

beraber

Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.

berahî

An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.

beralîkirin

Advice or counselling on some topic.

Beran

(astrology) The zodiac sign for the ram, ruled by Mars and covering March 20 – April 20 (tropical astrology) or April 15 – May 15 (sidereal astrology).

beranber

In person; directly; in the physical presence of somebody.