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Rojhilat

Osten (Ost-Kurdistan)

Geschlecht: Junge
Herkunft: Geografie
Aussprache: ROHJ-hee-lat

Die Geschichte des Namens

Rojhilat — where the sun rises, and the name of the eastern Kurdish regions. As a name it holds the day’s beginning and the beginning of new things in the same word.

Etymologie

Wurzel: roj + hilat · Kurmancî

Rojhilat is roj (sun) + hilat (rises): the place the sun rises, the east. In Kurdish political geography the term also names Eastern Kurdistan — the Kurdish-populated regions of north-western Iran.

Namensfamilie

Rojava · cognate — sundown / west
Bakur · cognate — north
Başûr · cognate — south

Geografie
modern
politisch

Aktualisiert: 2026-05-02