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traditionDeq

deq · Kurdish

From Syriac dyoqo, puncturing

PokedMethod
ThinningStill done?
womenWhose skin
womenWho marks it
Where it goesface, chin, neck, hands, feet, chest
NotesSoot mixed with breast milk is the reported ink; a V on the face could say the tribe.
InkSoot and milk

about 500 BCE – 2,026 · Older than the three religions of the region; now mostly on elderly faces

37.5000, 42.5000 · OpenStreetMap

What it is

Kurdistan: marks on women's faces, hands and feet, for protection, for health, and to say which tribe.

The long version

The word comes from Syriac dyoqo, puncturing — another tradition that names the tattoo after the movement of the needle. A male tattooist is deqqak, a female one deqqake; the practice predates Christianity, Yazidism and Islam in the region, and rules attach to it, including who may not receive it.

Connected to

Named here by

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedDeq (tattoo) — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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