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.

Hasin

Appreciation, awareness, perception.

Lazo

Laso, O beautiful, O young.

Mangrou

The face as nice as the moon.

Joudi

A mountain range that is behind the city of Slopi in North Kurdistan and faces the city of Zakho in South Kurdistan; Joudi, originally Guti, is an ancient Kurdish tribe that the Arabs called Joudi. It is the mountain on which Noah's ship anchored and is mentioned in the Torah.

Zhilakan/ Jilakan

The extinguished fire.

Gullnishan

Like a flower, in the sign of a flower.

Shene

1. Slow; 2. A village on the border of South Kurdistan, located on the slopes of the Nawzang Mountain, at the foot of Mount Mamanda in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Lawk

1. Long and old songs; 2. A type of old Kurdish rhythm; Lawk has different forms and types of content that tell of epic and real events. This type has been sung by famous singers such as Kaws Agha, Hassan Jaziri, Arif Jaziri, Iissa Barwari, Maryam Khan, and others. Also, lawk means boy in Kurmanji. The Greek Xenophon, came to Iran in 401 BC at the invitation of Cyrus son of Darius. When returned to Greece with 12,000 soldiers, fought in Kurdistan from 355 to 430 AD! Xenophon says in Return when the Kardokhis wanted to attack us, they sang a kind of enthusiastic song that had no rhythm!” According to Xenophon, this enthusiastic song is probably the same song that remains in Kurdistan today and has a free rhythm.

Lachin

1. A predatory bird smaller than hawk; 2. Leather shoes; 3. A village near Mahabad near Shilanawe where the Kurdish poet Hemn was born; 4. A Kurdish region in Soviet Azerbaijan and is inhabited by Kurds who were expelled from their homeland during the Ottoman period.