Bayez Enayati - Department of language and literature, Urmiah University

Every nation‟s oral literature has a rich collection of proverbs, symbols, similes, metaphors and allegories which have been accepted by both scientists and common people as the valuable abstracts of life experiences. Studying the literature of a nation leads to make a deep understanding of ideas, preferences, interests, religions, beliefs, customs, and traditions of the studied nation.A short glance at the literatures of Kurdish and English languages results in understanding the similarities and differences of thought of the speakers of these languages by which one can learn a lot about the cultures of these people.The current paper ,which is descriptive-analytic, studies the symbols of English and Kurdish languages. The results show that the similarities and differences of these languages‟ symbols are due to similarities and differences in ideas, religions, beliefs, life experiences, social and cultural issues of the speakers of these languages.

symbols, Kurdish & English languages, similarities, differences