Abstract

Abstract

Nowadays, English is widely used in Kurdistan Region. It is also a compulsory subject in all most all schools, colleges and universities. Although idioms in English are studied widely but still there are so many areas that have not been tackled yet. The main part of this study is the idiomatic expressions in English and Kurdish by focusing on the meanings of the English idioms in both languages as well as conducting comparative analysis between them.

The present study consists of five sections. The first section introduces the aims, the limitations and the method of the study. And section two investigates the concept of idioms. Section three is about the semantic properties of idiomatic expressions in English. Section four shows idioms in Kurdish. Section five presents the characteristics of idioms in English and Kurdish in addition to the differences between them. Finally, the study ends with some conclusions.