Kurdish/ middle eastern scarf

[pepula]

what do you guys call it?

JAMANA
JAMADANI
or just middle easten black and white scarf??

[ChiChalok]

what do you guys call it?

JAMANA
JAMADANI
or just middle easten black and white scarf??

u talkin about the one yasir arafat used to wear??

[Vladimir]

http://home.planet.nl/%7Ewilge114/Azady/vladpeshmerge3.JPG
Do I wear a jlkurdi or a xas?

[Piling]

In Northern Kurdistan, Kurds call it keffieh, like Arabs, and Turks "pushuk".

[Diri]

Pushuk? Come on, sister... Are you giving OUR names to Turks and Arabs? So they stole names...

Kurdish names for anyheadscarf:

Poshî
Axabanî
Lachika ser/Lêchek
Xawik
Kofî
Destmala ser
Egal

And many more... The point is that the headwear is called according to the way you wear it - an Egal and a Kofî can be of the same type of scarf for example - but it is the way you wear it on your head, which makes it and Egal or Kofî...

[Piling]

I did not tell that it is a Turkish word. I just notice that much Kurds call it "kefiieh" in Kurdistan and Turkish military there call it "pûs,ûk". Perhaps Turks stayed a too long time in Kurdistan and begin to be kurdified !

Yeah there are several Kurdish ways to wear it, I just know 2. It would be interesting to have pictures of all the way and their names. In any case, it is the best protection against sun, rain, coldness, etc... But in France I don't wear it. It is considered only like a Palestinian symbol. I have nothing against Palestinians but I don't want to disguise myself as an Arafatcî...

[Diri]

Yes... Like you say it has in the WEST become a Palestinian symbol - but it is a Kurdish scarf...

The fact is:

Selahedîn - he is the reason why Arabs wear it... It was his period of reign - which spread it to the world...

We should inform people about that scarf... It is KURDISH!

[pepula]

there are different ones. not the yasser arafat palestinian one...thats ugly
our one is much nicer
as a matter of fact, im wearing the red version right now as am very cold

but so nobody here calls it a jamana or jamadani? is that just a sorani thing then??

and vladimir...you are wearing the one im referring to on your site with the jli kurdi...i call it a jamadani although suleimanis call it a jamana....

[dyaoko]

what do you guys call it?

JAMANA
JAMADANI
or just middle easten black and white scarf??

Pepula are you sure you are not from Sine ? your speaking is so simmilar to mine .

[Diri]

there are different ones. not the yasser arafat palestinian one...thats ugly
our one is much nicer
as a matter of fact, im wearing the red version right now as am very cold

but so nobody here calls it a jamana or jamadani? is that just a sorani thing then??

and vladimir...you are wearing the one im referring to on your site with the jli kurdi...i call it a jamadani although suleimanis call it a jamana....

Like I said... They got it from US... But yeah - they have an altered version - the squares on the Pal scarf are larger - and pattern in general is ugly(other word for less intricate )...

[pepula]

kaka medya my sorani is so tekel. but people always think im from rojhelat, which im not, im kerkuki only born in seqiz

[tomjez]

But in France I don't wear it. It is considered only like a Palestinian symbol. I have nothing against Palestinians but I don't want to disguise myself as an Arafatcî... Laughing

Yeah, same dilemna for me...I bought a black one in Diyarbakir, and recently a red one in Erbil (Barzani style )

In north kurdistan people always told me "Pushi" for that. I heard another word in irak, but I don't remember...

Anyway it was fun to wear in istanbul in 2003, I could see mad eyes on me, or huge smiles and quick V sign from Kurds in some areas...I was young I stopped doing that I have no reason to hurt Turks! My Red Green Yellow Tepsi (offered to me in diyarbakir) has always been sucessful! "No no mister policeman, it' a reggae sign, whoo cool, bob marley!"

[Piling]

Anyway it was fun to wear in istanbul in 2003, I could see mad eyes on me, or huge smiles and quick V sign from Kurds in some areas..

That is right.When I wear it in Northern Kurdistan, Kurds could not believe their own eyes, they became crazy... of happiness. In that coutnry, no one had thought to a Palestinian symbol !

I remembered this old man, in Malatya, very handsome and noble as old Kurds could be, with Kurdish clothing, stopped in the street and made a large and eloquent "silav" with his hand..

The funniest is that Turkish soldiers never seemed to notice the political meaning of that (or did not care ? there are a lot of thing to say about Turk's soldiers and policemen after many years of dirty war, some of them seem a bit convinced that they occupied Kurdistan and come on with propaganda !)... they called it "pushuk", and Cizre, some of them approved us to have it as a protection agaisnt the sun...

[tomjez]

In Cizre it saved my life. The taxi between Cizre and Ibrahim Qalil smelt reaaaaally bad....

[pepula]

Yeah, same dilemna for me...I bought a black one in Diyarbakir, and recently a red one in Erbil (Barzani style )

In north kurdistan people always told me "Pushi" for that. I heard another word in irak, but I don't remember...

Anyway it was fun to wear in istanbul in 2003, I could see mad eyes on me, or huge smiles and quick V sign from Kurds in some areas...I was young I stopped doing that I have no reason to hurt Turks! My Red Green Yellow Tepsi (offered to me in diyarbakir) has always been sucessful! "No no mister policeman, it' a reggae sign, whoo cool, bob marley!"

hahahaa its jamadani in ''ERBIL'' and Jamana in Suleimani

lol all kurmancis love that scarf...here in london people smile at you when they see you're wearing it (kurdish people)