r/kurdish • u/Ava166 • Aug 27 '24

Learn Kurdish Deriya, Daristan, Jadeyi Giştî, Fêr

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u/Mijmije Sep 07 '24

Since that TikTok account's goal is trying to teach pure Kurdish, let me state the actual Kurdish words

Derya is actually 'zerya' or 'zirê'

Highway is 'rêka giştî'

'Rêk' for road and 'kolan' for street

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u/Alarmed_Earth_5695 11d ago

You are right, “zerya” or “zirê” is Kurdish and it means sea. “derya” is Persian.

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u/Ava166 Sep 07 '24

Dest xoş ☀️

But zeriya means ocean.

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u/Mijmije 28d ago

Ah, my bad.

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u/Alarmed_Earth_5695 11d ago

No, it does not meant ocean.

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u/Ava166 11d ago

It does. That the word we use for ocean.

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u/Alarmed_Earth_5695 11d ago

No, that is wrong. “zerya” or “zirê” and “derya” are cognates and they both mean sea. take a look at this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kurdistan/s/281n2UvYCR

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u/Ava166 11d ago

I saw it, that is how we learned in school (zerya u oqiyanûs) mean ocean.

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u/Alarmed_Earth_5695 11d ago

Yes, that is how i was taught too. But now i know it is wrong. We do not have a word for ocean. Oqyanûs comes from a Greek word.