Tamoura

Tanmour, Talmur, is an ancient instrument that consists of two words. If it is Tanmur, it becomes: Tan means body, and Mur means mourning. If it's Talmur, it contains Tal, meaning wire, and Mur is mourning. Both are two old Kurdish words, which the Persians have turned into tanbur, and tanbur has no meaning.

Marina

A village in South Kurdistan.

Diyari

Souvenir, offering, sign.

Nukhsha

1. Wish for someone, good wish; 2. Immature grain.

Vahel

1. Immortal; 2. Alone.

Danar

The founder and the builder.

Malo

1. The flowers and plants cut, tied, and wrapped as gifts; 2. Harvested plants, cut with a knife in the fields or forests, are put in rows, then gathered and used for the winter for the cattle.

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.

Zagros

1. The place of origin of the Zakrtis, the place of the Zakrtis; 2. The Zakrtis are an ancient Kurdish tribe called in Greek: (Zagrti or Sagriti; Sagart, Sagarti; Zagriti, Zagros); 3. Zakros or Zagros is a mountain range that starts in Armenia and Azerbaijan, descends through many valleys and mountains of Kurdistan, and ends in Shiraz. The length of the Zagros Mountains in Kurdistan is 1000 kilometers and its height in Wshtrankew (Oshtoran Kooh) is 4700 meters.

Zhazhak/ Jajak

Gum.