The flowers of Kurdistan, by their Kurdish names.

Every flower with its names in each Kurdish dialect, when it blooms, and its story.

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Today’s flower

Tuesday 6 October

Rose
RoseRosaKurmanji: Gul

However much we say about this flower, it is never enough, because of its beauty, its many varieties and its uses. Hundreds of years BC (before the birth of Jesus) roses were cultivated in China, and before that they had grown in East Asia for thousands of years; from there they spread throughout th

Did you know?In Kurmanji it is also called Gulebax.
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