Rezhna/ Rejna

Heavy rain.

Bashik

1. Holy House; 2. A place of love; 3. Yazidi religious holy place; 4. An old Kurdish town, inhabited by two tribes (Bashik and Bazan), or rebuilt by the two tribes. Bashik is located 25 kilometers east of Mosul, where Kurds, Yazidis, Goran, Shabaks, and some Assyrians live. The city has an old history of being attacked by the Tatars, Mongols, and Ottomans throughout Kurdistan and has been damaged many times. Bashik is a sacred religious place for the Yazidis and contains many ancient shrines dating back to before the birth of Jesus Christ; The fascist Ba'athist regime tried to make it an Arab settlement and changed its name to Baashiqa, but fortunately, because of the US attack on Iraq, it failed and the area fell back to the control of the Kurdish government.

Daga

Grandmother.

Dlavin

Late spring and early summer.

Farhad

Shirin's lover's name and the hero of the Kurdish story Shirin and Farhad, known as Farhad Lor, who is the carver of Taqwasan in Kermashan.

Wanawsha

Violet, a flower that grows in gardens. Its color is very light blue, close to pink.

Pakosa

The Kurdish name of a village in North Kurdistan was changed by the Turkish state to a Turkish name.

Mande

A plant in the form of a Halz that is added to cheese and eaten by cattle too.

Zhala/ Jala

A bitter evergreen tree with leaves like willow leaves but slightly wider and bearing red and white flowers; Zhala is the name of two villages in Sangaw and Tanjaro regions; South Kurdistan, especially Badinan, has wildling willow trees.

Harsham

A village in the Balisan region of South Kurdistan.