Folio § shemal
Şemal
North, northern
The story of the name
The northern wind or direction.
Etymology
Root: šamāl · Arabic
Şemal is the Arabic-borrowed word for north — also the name of the cool north wind across the Arabic-speaking world. Used in Kurdish alongside the native bakur.
Name family
- Bakur · cognate
Linguistic parallels
- Shamal Arabiska — Samma
Updated: 2026-05-02