(Congratulations, friend.)
However, language is living. Kurds have used Mubarakan for centuries. In the Sorani dictionary, it is fully lexicalized. As one Kurdish linguist put it: "English uses 'Café' from French. We use 'Mubarakan' from Arabic. That doesn't make us less Kurdish; it makes us cosmopolitan."
It is not just a translation of "congratulations." It is the sound of a Daf drum. It is the smell of Biryani and Dolma at a family gathering. It is the tear in a mother’s eye at a wedding. It is the defiance of a people who celebrate life despite history trying to erase them.
