Zîn
زین
Best explained through the Perso-Arabic root shared with Zeynep and Zainab, "beauty, ornament", though some give it simply as Kurdish for "life".
Meaning and origin
Zîn is known above all as the heroine of Mem û Zîn, a Kurdish epic of doomed love that the poet Ehmedê Xanî put into Kurmanji verse in 1692 and that still holds a central place in Kurdish literature, much as Romeo and…
How to pronounce Zîn
| English (US) | ZEEN /ziːn/ |
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