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.

Reshanko

It was the name of a Kurdish tribe in the Haymani region near Ankara, which was exiled to Bulgaria and Bosnia by the Ottomans.

Tamo

It is the shortening of Taymour, a Kurdish singer and musician from West Kurdistan.

Marwan

City of snakes (Mar in Kurdish), Marwan, Mariwan; Marwan is the old name of the city of Mariwan. Mariwan has too many snakes. There was a small village called Tazade in the south of Mariwan that was burned down by people because of snakes. In spring, the area around Zrewar is like a city of snakes. Everywhere is full of snakes. The elderly people of Mariwan say that it was because of the many snakes that this city was first called Marwan, and then Mariwan. On the road from Marivan to Sna (Sanandaj), there was a bridge called Kalekawa that crossed the village of Tarkhanawa. There was full of snakes. There were a couple of villages near Zrebar, where snakes were on the roofs of the houses. They evacuated and burned them too.

Yaga

It is a Hawrami word meaning place.

Warshaw

An alloy of copper and silver that is shiny and does not deteriorate, and is used to make trays, spoons, forks, and so on.

Sirwan

1. A flowing river; The name of a river in East Kurdistan that originates in three places and flows into the Darbandikhan dam in south Kurdistan.

Mandak

The name of one of the Median kings that was called Mandax by the Greeks.

Shawnm

Dew, the humidity of the night air on flowers, leaves, and plants. In spring, water evaporates due to the sunshine and falls on flowers and plants in the form of droplets at night when the air gets cool.

Daban

It is an area behind Mount Piramagrun near Sulaimani in South Kurdistan.