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Newroz
Le jour nouveau — le nouvel an du printemps
Le jour où Kawa le forgeron renversa le tyran Zahhak — le signe de la liberté
L'histoire du prénom
Newroz is the new day — March 21, when day and night fall equal and spring arrives. In Kurdish it is not only a marker of season: it is a day of fires, of dancing on mountainsides, of Kawa's name spoken aloud. As a given name Newroz is unisex — because a daybreak is new for everyone.
Étymologie
Racine: nû + roj · Kurmancî
Newroz is the Kurdish form of the same compound that gives Persian Nowrūz (نوروز): nū (new) + rōj (day). The festival itself predates Islam by centuries — Sasanian-era sources already describe a spring-equinox new year. In Kurdish tradition the day is bound to the legend of Kawa and the fall of the tyrant Zahhak; that legend gives Newroz the second meaning the name now also carries: a freedom day.
Expressions
- Newroz pîroz be ‘Blessed Newroz’ — the standard greeting on March 21
Famille du prénom
- Kawa · cognate — the smith whose revolt the day commemorates
- Roj · derived — the second element — *day, sun*
Parallèles linguistiques
- Nowrūz (نوروز) Persiska — Same compound, same festival
- *nava raucah-* Avestiska — ‘new light/day’ — reconstructed Old Iranian form
Mis à jour: 2026-05-02