{"id":"HASSAN1980-002","label":"Bahdinani Kurdish badbadak bullroarer","people_or_site":"Kurds of Bahdinan (Bahdini Kurmanji)","country_current":"Iraq","historic_region":"Bahdinan (Behdinan) / Dohuk - Amadiya, Iraqi Kurdistan","macroregion":"Near East / Mesopotamia","local_name":"badbadak","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French","object_description":"Rectangular wooden board pierced once at one end for a cord and whirled in steady rotation; Hassan's Fig. 8 shows the rig.","function_summary":"Children's toy, made by the children themselves; not used by adults and explicitly without magical connotation.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"hassan1980_irak_rhombe","source_type":"ethnomusicology_monograph","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112321348","page_or_plate":"printed p. 47, section III.12 Rhombe, fig. 8; glossary printed p. 218; pp. 96-97 (Tableau 27, Tableau 28)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Amadiya (Amedi), the historic seat of the Bahdinan emirate, as the representative anchor for 'les Kurdes de Bahdinan'. Hassan names the speech community, not a village, a player or a specimen findspot; Bahdini Kurmanji is spoken across the Dohuk governorate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the mountains of Bahdinan, north of Mosul, Kurdish children call the bull-roarer badbadak — not for its noise but for what it makes: in Kurdish bad is the wind, and badbadak the little wind-thing, a name that glosses as plainly as \"ventilator.\" The object is as plain as the name: a rectangular board drilled once at one end for its cord, whirled in steady rotation. The children make them themselves. Adults do not use them, and no magical sense attaches to them at all — the whirled blade that carries the voices of the dead across half the world is here a toy named after a draught of air.","pull_quote":"badbadak, bad, signifie le vent, chez les Kurdes de Bahdinan","pull_quote_translation":"badbadak - bad means the wind - among the Kurds of Bahdinan","pull_quote_cite":"Hassan 1980, Les instruments de musique en Irak, printed p. 47 (section III.12, Rhombe)","term_gloss":"Bahdinani Kurdish (Kurmanji) name for the bullroarer, built on bad 'wind'; Hassan glosses it 'ventilateur'. The same formation is the ordinary Persian word for a kite.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Scheherazade Qassim Hassan, Les instruments de musique en Irak et leur rôle dans la société traditionnelle (Cahiers de l'Homme XXI, EHESS/Mouton, 1980), p. 47 (section III.12, Rhombe, fig. 8), pp. 96-97 and glossary p. 218","url":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112321348"}],"source_citations":"Scheherazade Qassim Hassan, Les instruments de musique en Irak et leur rôle dans la société traditionnelle (Cahiers de l'Homme XXI, EHESS/Mouton, 1980), p. 47 (section III.12, Rhombe, fig. 8), pp. 96-97 and glossary p. 218","source_display":"Scheherazade Qassim Hassan, Les instruments de musique en Irak et leur rôle dans la société traditionnelle (Cahiers de l'Homme XXI, EHESS/Mouton, 1980), p. 47 (section III.12, Rhombe, fig. 8), pp. 96-97 and glossary p. 218","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rectangular wooden board pierced once at one end for a cord and whirled in steady rotation; Hassan's Fig. 8 shows the rig.","function_display":"Children's toy, made by the children themselves; not used by adults and explicitly without magical connotation.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kurds bahdinan","display_name":"Bahdinani Kurdish badbadak bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HASSAN1980-002_hassan1980_fig8.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HASSAN1980-002_hassan1980_fig8_thumb.jpg","credit":"Schéhérazade Qassim Hassan, Les instruments de musique en Irak (Paris/The Hague: Mouton, 1980), fig. 8 (p. 48)","license":"© the publisher; low-resolution rehosted research figure — the row's own cited illustration","source_page":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112321348","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Hassan's drawing of the Iraqi rhombe: a plain rectangular board drilled once at one end, whirled on its cord."},"slug":"hassan1980-002-kurds-of-bahdinan-bahdini-kurmanji"}