Ordîxanê Celîl


Ordîxanê Celîl was a Kurdish scholar. Born in Yerevan to a Yazidi family, he entered the philology department of the University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956. He was appointed as the Kurdish studies chair of the University of Leningrad in 1957. He worked for three years at the Radio of Yerevan as its first Kurdish anchor. He visited Iraqi Kurdistan in 1958, where he conducted research on the Kurdish language. For many years, he worked on collecting Kurdish folk stories and poetry alongside his brother Jalile Jalil and sister Cemîle Celîl. His archive contains more than 100,000 Kurdish proverbs many of which are still unpublished.

Books

  1. Şiyêr û poêm, Poetry, 114 pp., Haip'ethrat Publishers, Armenia, 1959.
  2. Stranên Lîrîkên Gelêrîyên Kurd, 1964.
  3. Курдский героический эпос "Златорукий хан": Дымдым, 206 pp., Nauka Publishers, 1967.
  4. Kurdskie poslovitsy i pogovorki: na kurdskom i russkom iazykakh
  5. Çîrokên Cimaeta Kurda, 234 pp., Haiastan Publishers, 1974.
  6. Kela Dimdim.
  7. Xanê Dest Zêrîn.
  8. Biwêj û Gotinên Pêşiyanên Kurd.
  9. Zargotina Kurda, co-authored with Celîlê Celîl, Vol. I, II, Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1978.
  10. Celîl, O., C. Celîl & Z. Celîl, Kurdskie skazki, legendy i predaniia, Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1989.
  11. Zargotina Kurdên Sûriyê, co-authored with Ahmet Omer and Celîlê Celîl, Jîna Nû Publishers, Uppsala, Sweden, 1989,.
  12. Dastanên Kurdî, coauthored with Celîlê Celîl, 244 pp., Zêl Publishers, Istanbul, 1994.
  13. Istoricheskie pesni kurdov, 816 pp., Institut vostokovedeniia, Orientalia Publishers, Saint Petersburg, 2003.