Ordîxanê Celîl[1] (Ordikhan Dzhasimovich Dzhalilov or Ordikhan-e Jalil or Ordikhane Dzhalil ) (1932–2007) was a
Kurdish scholar. Born in
Yerevan to a
Yazidi family, he entered the
philology department of the
University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956. He was appointed as the Kurdish studies chair of the
University of Leningrad in 1957. He worked for three years at the Radio of Yerevan as its first Kurdish
anchor. He visited
Iraqi Kurdistan in 1958, where he conducted research on the
Kurdish language. For many years, he worked on collecting Kurdish folk stories and poetry alongside his brother
Jalile Jalil and sister Cemîle Celîl. His archive contains more than 100,000 Kurdish
proverbs many of which are still unpublished.[2][3]
Books
Şiyêr û poêm, Poetry, 114 pp., Haip'ethrat Publishers, Armenia, 1959.
Stranên Lîrîkên Gelêrîyên Kurd (Kurdish Lyrical and Folkloric Songs), 1964.
Курдский героический эпос "Златорукий хан": Дымдым (Dimdim Epic Poetry), 206 pp., Nauka Publishers, 1967.
Kurdskie poslovitsy i pogovorki: na kurdskom i russkom iazykakh (Kurdish Proverbs and Sayings, 454 pp., Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury Publishers, Moscow, 1972. (with
Celîlê Celîl)[4]
Biwêj û Gotinên Pêşiyanên Kurd (Kurdish proverbs).
Zargotina Kurda (Kurdish Folklore), co-authored with
Celîlê Celîl, Vol. I, II, Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1978.
Celîl, O., C. Celîl & Z. Celîl, Kurdskie skazki, legendy i predaniia (Kurdish Fairy Tales and Legends), Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1989.
Zargotina Kurdên Sûriyê (Folklore of Kurds in Syria), co-authored with Ahmet Omer and Celîlê Celîl, Jîna Nû Publishers, Uppsala, Sweden, 1989,
ISBN91-970927-3-8.[5][6]