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Matin |
1. wise; 2. Dignified, good behavior; 3. A mountain near Bamarni in the Badinan region of South Kurdistan. |
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Mazda |
1. The short form of Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian god; 2. A small hole that sunlight or rays enter through; The Persian dictionary (Amid) says that Mazda means to add up or increase the value of something, which has nothing to do with this word. |
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Mazin |
A village in the Wan region in North Kurdistan. |
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Mazn |
1. Great; 2. The chief of tribe. |
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Midiya |
1. Mad, Media, the name of the Median state; 2. The place where the Medes lived; The Medes were of Indo-European descent and moved from the eastern Caspian Sea to the northwestern mountains of Iran in the ninth century BC. They gradually gained control over their neighbors by the end of the eighth century BC, established an independent government, and subjugated the Persian nation with the present city of Hagmatana or Hakmtan (Ecbatana) as their capital, but were defeated by Cyrus the Achaemenid in 550 BC. The word Mad later became May during the Sassanid period and then the Arabs changed it to Mah. |
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Milan |
The name of a Kurdish tribe living north of Khoy city; The name of a village in South Kurdistan. |
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Miran |
1. Plural of Mir, king; 2. Miran was the name of a nomadic Kurdish tribe in Kurdistan; In Kurdish, Mir is a short form of the title Amir and is different from the Persian word Amir, which means Sayyid. |
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Mitradad |
Mitradad or Mehrdad was one of Astyages's shepherds whose wife's name was Spaka. |
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Nabaz |
Hero, invincible, strong, and capable. |
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Nali |
1. Thin; 2. Cry; 3. Cracks in the reed pencil; 4. Mattress; 5. The nickname of the famous Kurdish poet, Mullah Khdr Ahmad Mikayili, who was from the village of Khakukhol in Sharazur. |
