The Sharezoor Kurdish-English DictionaryThe material for this dictionary has been gathered in two stages. Between 
1964-73 much of the material was compiled, assisted by the publication of 
volumes I and II of Khal's dictionary. This in a sense set the general frame of 
the dictionary as it represented the major published source. Then came the 
publication of the bilingual dictionary by T. Wahby and C. J. Edmonds, from 
the standard and technical features of which, this dictionary has largely 
benefited.1987-93 is the second stage during which the work on this dictionary was 
greatly expanded and brought up to date. Taking advantage of the publication 
of Khal's third and final volume in 1974, the dictionary's framework with 
regards to the general and commonly accepted vocabulary was augmented. In a 
real sense, the process of updating this dictionary has continued especially 
when I returned to Kurdistan in 1996 and up to the time shortly before its 
publication. Unfortunately, this process has not included, due to the time 
factor, the contributions that have been made in the last few years.1958-61 in Iraq, the 1980s to the present abroad (where a sizable Kurdish 
community exists), and more importantly since 1992 in the Kurdish self-governing region of Southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan, are periods characterized by a 
profusion of material produced in Kurdish utilizing a language increasingly 
purified from foreign accretions. This perhaps represents a most important 
aspect of the development of the Kurdish language in the last few decades 
where the Kurdish press, teachers unions, students organizations and the 
literary community both at home and abroad have embarked upon a gradual 
process reviving original Kurdish vocabulary which has fallen into disuse, 
deriving new meaning from them and even coining new words. No doubt there 
are among these efforts eccentricities which, as Wahby states "would better be 
forgotten". However, too austere a stand in this respect would deprive the 
users of any Kurdish dictionary of a most lively and important process that 
written Kurdish is passing through, both in the development of its vocabulary 
and the style of its composition.In this regard, the Sharezoor Kurdish-English Dictionary has taken the 
middle ground between Wahby's rather reserved stand and Hezhar's somewhat 
free rein in his Henbane Borîne, A Kurdish-Kurdish-Persian Dictionary, 
Siroosh, Teheran,1991. For this purpose, the dictionary has depended on 
research and selections from numerous scientific and technical glossaries, 
periodicals, newspaper, magazines, collections of poems, etc. which to a great 
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degree represent the major aspects of recent development and use of the 
Kurdish language.&nbsp;

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