Kurdish | Mubarakan

The next time you see a Kurdish friend succeed, or when the spring equinox rolls around, don't just say "Good for you." Look them in the eye and say:

It is not just a translation of "congratulations." It is the sound of a Daf drum. It is the smell of Biryani and Dolma at a family gathering. It is the tear in a mother’s eye at a wedding. It is the defiance of a people who celebrate life despite history trying to erase them. mubarakan kurdish

However, language is living. Kurds have used Mubarakan for centuries. In the Sorani dictionary, it is fully lexicalized. As one Kurdish linguist put it: "English uses 'Café' from French. We use 'Mubarakan' from Arabic. That doesn't make us less Kurdish; it makes us cosmopolitan." The next time you see a Kurdish friend