Kurdish calender from the 21st of March:
The places you find two names - example: "AX LÊWE/XAK LÊWE" the first name is in Kurmancî and the second one in Soranî...
Spring in Kurdistan : Bihar / Buhar
1) Ax Lêwe/Xak Lêwe/ Awdar - Dirt (AX & XAK) becomes clear when snow is melting. "Awdar" means "watertree" it is the month when life is given to the tree - water (AW) passing through the tree (DAR)...
2) Awrêl / Banemer - This is what happens when the snow is melting - we get "Awrêl" it means water coming down the mountains - and flooding... The name April used in the West may have derived from this name. "Banemer" Means the "mating time of sheep and ram"... As the translation tells you this the time Kurds let their rams into their sheepflock to mate...
3) Gulan - This is the time when the flowers blossom... (Gul means flower)
Summar in Kurdistan: Hawîn / Awîn
4) Poshper - This is the month when the grass turns yellow... (Posh is the sound of the grass when it becomes yellow)
5) Tîrmeh - This is the time when the SUN is standing at its tallest on the sky - 90 degrees... "Tîr" means "ray" (sunray)!
6) Gelawêj - This the the month when the star named "Gelawêj" becomes visible in Kurdistan.
Autumn in Kurdistan: Payîz / Payêz
7) Chotmeh / Xerman - This is the month when the farmers start digging their fields and turning the dirt to make it ready for next season. "Chot" means "dig"..."Xerman" means harvest - before "digging" they harvest...
8 ) Rezber - This is the month that grape is harvested - "Rez" means a "bunch of grape"...
9) Kewchêr/Gella Rêzan - This means that the leaves on the trees are falling. "Gella" reffering to "leaf"... "Kewchêr"- "Kew" is the name of the bird that is the national symbol of Kurdistan and "chêr" means "scream (directly translated its the sound they make)" This is the time when kew that had hatched from their eggs in GULAN have become "young adults"- but they can't make the proper sound that and adult Kew makes yet so they make a sound that we call "Chêr" whish means "squeeling" in English.
Winter in Kurdistan: Ziwistan / Zimistan
10) Befranbar/Sermawez - This is the month when the first snow falls - "Befir" meaning snow and "bar" meaning "falling"..."Sermawez" reffering to the cold wind that sweeps across the mountains at this time of year. "Serm/Sar" means "cold". The world becomes cold...
11) Rêbendan - This is the month when most roads are blocked by the heavy snow - "Rê" meaning road - and "Bend" meaning "block/hinder". "Sermawez" reffering to the cold wind that sweeps across the mountains at this time of year. "Serm/Sar" means "cold".
12) Reshemeh - This is the month when the winter is the hardest - loongest nights... "Resh" meaning "black" and "Meh" meaning "month" - "BLACKMONTH"
And this should be satisfing - I did research on the net - but much of it contradicts other sources on the net... and the month of Gelawêj was TOTALY wrong in one of the sites where it said that Gelawêj means "Gathered crop"... It may be the right time for gathering the crop - but Gelawêj is the Kurdish name for VENUS (the star planet)- have a look at this site:
http://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelaw%C3%A ... st%C3%AArk)
THIS IS HOW KURDISH MONTHS WOULD LOOK LIKE IN A WESTERN PERSPECTIVE:
1. Rêbendan (January)
2. Reshemeh (February)
3. Awdar - Ax/Xak Lêwe (March)
4. Awrêl - Banemer (April)
5. Gulan (May)
6. Pushper (June)
7. Tîrmeh (July)
8. Gelawêj (August)
9. Chotmeh (September)
10. Rezber (October)
11. Kewçêr - Gela Rêza (November)
12. Befranbar - Sermawez (December)
This is a KEW: (Scroll down when you enter the site)
http://www.geocities.com/faspari/kurdistan.html
GOD THIS TOOK ME A WHOLE DAY TO GET AROUND!!! Hope it's worth the time -and that all of you can use this as a source when talking of Kurdish months...
This is a relieable Kurmanchî Kurdish site:
http://members.fortunecity.com/malper5/mehname0103-06.html
DONE!
PS: Names that were left out were left out because they may not be of Kurdish origin... The ones that ARE here are secure names that can be trusted...
(I hope you understood my joke) :
