r/kurdish

i wanna change my name to kurdish but PLS NOT any of those classic Azad ,serhat, roni diyar style names

All of my friends have those names.

I want it to be modern and also represents my kurdish heritage too.

Hello everyone,

I am currently restoring the Serbian subtitles for Bahman Ghobadi's film *Turtles Can Fly* (2004).

This is a completely non-commercial volunteer project. My goal is not simply to translate the film, but to preserve the original meaning of the Sorani dialogue as faithfully as possible.

After comparing the original Sorani dialogue with the available Persian, English, French, Arabic and Turkish subtitles, as well as Sorani dictionaries and speech-recognition tools, I have reached one very short section of dialogue (about 20–25 seconds) where all available sources disagree with one another.

I am therefore looking for a native Sorani speaker who would be willing to listen to this short audio excerpt.

I need help with only ONE sentence, spoken by an elderly Iranian Kurdish doctor.

If possible, I would greatly appreciate:

• the original Sorani transcription,

• a phonetic transcription (optional),

• a literal English translation,

• and, if applicable, an explanation of any idiomatic or regional expression.

I am NOT looking for a subtitle translation of the whole dialogue. The surrounding conversation is included only to provide context.

The audio clip is ready and I will upload it immediately if anyone is willing to help.

Many thanks in advance to anyone willing to help preserve the original Sorani dialogue.

Thank you very much for your time.

This is a dumb question 💀 for reference, i’m fluent in sorani kurdish for the most part but sometimes i have to use context clues for certain words that i don’t know. but anyways my parents use it as an insult (jokingly) & i asked them what the translation is to english. my dad gave me a whole history lesson but it still really didn’t make sense where the insult part came from. If they say someone looks like a maghol does it mean they look homeless or slow? i don’t understand 💀

I've been caretaking for my mom the past couple of months, and we put on the old Kurdish songs she remembers from the 70s and 80s. But I'll walk back into the room and some *AI-generated* Kurdish song or music video will be playing instead. I am an American born club DJ in the United States and honestly, some of them are certified bangers!

I don't really know how I feel about it. Part of me is into it, part of me feels weird about it. Curious if other Kurds have come across these and felt some type of way. Does it bother you, or do you think it's keeping the sound alive in a new way?

Standardkerdişî sera, zuwanê ma nika be çekuyê newa pirrê; zafên nêmendo ke ma nêeşkenêm raberêm. Reyna ke, pê miletê ma û Rocawanî mîyan de pêresnayîşê vêşkerdoğa, ma ge-ge fikir û vateyê newî vênenêm ke ma tam nêşenêm be zuwanê maya bikerêm eşkera. Zafane rey, ma geyrenêm tepeya, ve bin û binaşedê zuwandê ma ya ke konseptî pê vateyîya vecenêm, û ge-ge ma zî ney nêşenêm. Zazakî de, çekûda «probably»ya Engilizkî rê, çekuyên raşta çinîyo; tayên viraştişê cumleyî estê—mavajî: «aseno ke ...»—nê zî tam nêyenê menaya «probably» ser.

Persê min yeno piro ke ez wazenan bieşnawîn zuwanê Kurdkîyê bînî senên vanê «probably». Çekuyê Turkkî û Erebkîyê ke ê zî tam menaya «probably» nêdanê bera, mi torrman de çîkên nêdîyo.

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Thanks to standardisation, our languages now contain many new words, and there is very little that we cannot express in them. However, as our people increasingly come into contact with the West, we encounter new ideas and expressions that we cannot fully convey in our native languages. Most of the time, we can rely on the idiomatic foundations of our languages to express these concepts; sometimes, however, we cannot. In Zazaki, for example, there is no single-word equivalent for the English word "probably". We use some sentence structures instead, such as "Aseno ke..." ("It appears that...") — but these don't fully capture the meaning of "probably".

So, I would love to know how other Kurdish languages express the word "probably". Aside from Turkish and Arabic words that don't quite capture the meaning of "probably" either, I wasn't able to find anything online.

Silav hevalno,
Ma dikare yek ji we gotinên tevahî yên strana “Ha Gula Min” ya Şivan Perwer ji min re bi Kurmancî binivîse?
Ez li her derê geriyam, lê min gotinên tevahî nedîtin. Heke kesek gotinên rast an transkrîpsiyona stranan hebe, ez ê pir spasdar bim.
Spas! ❤️

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find the full Kurdish (Kurmanji) lyrics of “Ha Gula Min” by Şivan Perwer. I’ve searched Google, YouTube, Kurdish lyrics websites and even tried AI transcription, but I can’t find the lyrics anywhere.

Does anyone have:

* the full Kurdish lyrics,
* a written transcript,
* or a line-by-line English translation?

I’d really appreciate it.

Spas! ❤️