A Study of the Persian Words and Expressions in Nali’s Kurdish Poems

Nali is one of the prominent and creative classical Kurdish poets of the nineteenth century. He used many Persian words and compounds in his Kurdish poems. He was one of the leading poets of classical Kurdish poetry in this area. In this research, all the poems of Nali’s Divan were studied, Persian words, nouns, and verb compounds were extracted, and their frequency was determined statistically. Nali presented a new method to create sentence structure and word formation in classical Kurdish poetry using the Persian language. In this way, Nali developed new meanings in Kurdish poetry. He used the capacities of both Persian and Kurdish languages in composing powerful metric poems. The data analysis showed the high frequency of Persian words and noun compounds in Nali’s poetry.