The plants of Kurdistan, by their Kurdish names.
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Because of their many colours and their fragrance, irises have found a place everywhere. For a long time they have been used to make medicines. They are very useful in the lives of all peoples: their fragrance is used to make floral water (gulav), and the floral water of Riha (Urfa) was famous throu
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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















