Dengbêj

Étymologie

Racine: deng + bêj · Kurmancî

Dengbêj is the Kurdish bardic tradition’s name for the one who tells the voice — the singer of long oral epics, often unaccompanied. The dengbêj kept stories like Mem û Zîn and Siyabend û Xecê alive across generations of restricted writing.

• deng — voice, sound
• gotin — to say, tell