Hurmizgan

Hurmizgan (also Hurmuzgan, Hormizgan) is the name of an ancient Kurdish poem written on skin from Muslim Arabs attacks era about 13 centuries ago. It was found around Hezarmerd village in Sulaimani province in Iraqi Kurdistan in the beginning of the 19th century.^[1][2]

The Kurdish text and its translation in English is as following:

Hurmizgan riman, Atiran kujan

Wishan Shardewe gewrey gewrekan

Zorkar ereb kirne xapûr

Ginay paleyi heta Sharezûr

Jin u kenikan we dil beshina

Mêrd aza tli we ruy hwêna

Reweshti Zerdeshtre manuwe bekes

Bezeyika neka Hewrmez we hwichkes.

• English translation:

The temples destroyed, the fires were turn off, (killed)

the greatest of the sirs hided himself

Cruel Arabs destroyed

The villages of poor peoples till Sharezur

They enslaved girls and women

brave men dived into their blood

The Zoroastrianism lost its followers

Ahuramazda felt pity on no one.

• Kurdish(Hawrami Dialect) transliteration:

هورمزگان رمان، ئاتران کوژانددو

ویشان شاردوه گه‌وره‌ی گه‌وره‌کان

زۆر کار ئه‌ره‌ب کرنه‌ خاپور

گنای پاله ئی هه‌تا شارزور

ژن و که‌نکیان وه دیل به‌شینا

میرد ئازا تلی وه روی هوێنا

روشت زه‌رده‌شتره مانوه بی که‌س

به‌زه‌یکا نیکا هورمز وه‌ هویچ که‌س

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