name
Berivan
beh-rih-VAHN
bɛrɪˈvɑnListen
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Syllable breakdown
Berivan
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Kurmanji Kurdish (Turkey/Syria/Iraq)
- Meaning
- a beloved Kurmanji Kurdish feminine name meaning she who milks, the milkmaid, evoking the pastoral highland culture of Kurdish mountain communities where the tending of goats and sheep and the making of dairy products are central to the household economy and communal identity; the name became iconic in Kurdish cultural consciousness through its association with the folk heroine of the epic Mem û Zîn, the great Kurdish epic by the seventeenth-century poet Ahmadê Xanî, and carries connotations of beauty, rural grace, and connection to the Kurdish mountain homeland
- Gender
- female
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