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Clove trees were found in the islands of Indonesia (the Maluku Islands) thousands of years ago. Besides being used to improve the taste of food and drink, their dried flower buds have also been used to make many kinds of medicine. The name of the clove appears many times in Chinese texts from betwee
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Essays on Kurdish names, language and the land.

The Importance of Names and the Kurds: Loss
Part 7 of 7 inThe Importance of Names and the KurdsBefore we come to the subject of the loss of names, we must set the phenomenon of the changing of names and surnames in a proper framework; it is worth saying that the changing…
Weysî Silêman Elî · 3 November 2026 · 7 min read
Part 6 of 7The Importance of Names and the Kurds: Veering
The word “varîbûn” is made up of two parts: “varî”, which means turning off the road and corresponds to the English word “veer”, and “-bûn”, which…
29 October 2026 · 6 min read
Part 5 of 7The Importance of Names and the Kurds: The War of Ideas
We have often read and heard that the clay (earth) from which human beings are made is a belligerent earth. But it is neither true nor just to say…
18 October 2026 · 5 min read


















