Shilan

1. A kind of small red pearl; 2. The fruit of a thorny red tree grows six yards tall and produces yellow round flowers. It has small red sweet fruit like oleaster, which is edible and used as medicine too.

Zhwan

1. A place for lovers' meeting; 2. Taking a nap.

Nare

A Kurdish song. See Narin.

Rawyar

1. Traveler, wayfarer; 2. Hunter, huntsman.

Laile

1. The love of the famous Majnun; 2. The name of several Kurdish songs.

Martya

According to the Behistun Inscription, the name of the Elamite-Kurdish commander who rose up against Darius the Achaemenid.

Warzhen

An old Kalhori word, meaning: to write from memory.

Mad

Mede (Mad); the ancient ancestral name of the Kurdish nation, who established the Median Empire from the 8th to 6th centuries BCE with Diako (Deioces) as their first king, Ecbatana (Hamadan) as their capital, and Astyages (Azhdahak) as their last emperor; closely related to the Mannaeans, Gutians, Lullubi, Kassites, Mitanni, Subarians, Nairi, Karduchoi, and Urartians, and whose heritage survives in rock reliefs across Kurdistan such as Dokan-e Davud (Sarpol-e Zahab), Qizqapan (near Dukan in Sulaymaniyah), and Hamadan.

Dashne

1. The sound of the wind, the sound of the tree, the movement of a baby, as the tree falls, or the child falls; 2. He/she wishes.

Hawraz

Very intimate, someone who knows secrets.