The most important factor for the existence and continuity of a language is the vocabulary. Dictionaries reflect the richness of ideas and culture of a nation. They are significant resources that convey the language to future generations. The scientific studies conducted on dictionaries are called lexicography. This word, started to be used in English in 1860, originates from the Greek "lexikographos" and means "written or spoken words or sayings ". In Kurdish, it is called "ferhengzani". Just as it is in all languages, there is also science on Kurdish language and studies were conducted on that science. The most important supplementary resource is bilingual dictionaries. For individuals, the language of other people was a requirement and important since ancient times. This necessity was sometimes necessary for science, sometimes for trade, and sometimes for politics of the people. The changes that occurred in the world during recent centuries has made it possible to travel around the world easier and faster, and facilitated to learn the language of other nations. Thus, humankind needed bilingual dictionaries and they began to create these dictionaries. These dictionaries are the resources for foreign languages. The tradition of dictionaries written in verse is a significant line of work in classical literature. This genre is found in the ancient literature of several Muslim nations. It could be observed in recent studies that this tradition continued in classical Kurdish literature, and there are several examples in Turkish literature as well as Arabic and Persian literatures. This literary genre has been authored mainly due to significant factors such as teaching language to children, formation of a literary taste, establishing a basis for madrasah education by improving the ability to rote, preparation for Qur'anic terminology, and familiarizing the students with the aruz prosody in early ages. Naturally, among these reasons, increasing the vocabulary of children, especially in the early years, could be considered as one of the objectives for this genre. Furthermore, it could be argued that these dictionaries have performed important functions in terms of establishing a foundation for a foreign language (which was mostly Arabic). While these works have been regarded as functional educational material especially for those who attend Islamic science studies in the past, today, they unfortunately exist solely as important historical-literary works that only researchers are interested in. It is extremely important that these work, where each work documents important topics such as culture, history and daily life, should be transferred to younger generations through such publications. The dictionary that is the topic of the present article is Dilbikulê Cizîrî's "Nûbihara Mezinan" (the spring of the ancestors), a Turkish-Kurdish dictionary written in verse. This work is one of eight known dictionaries written in verse in classical Kurdish literature. The work, written to familiarize Turks with the Kurdish language and specially to teach Turkish language to Kurds who do not speak Turkish, aimed to teach the basic words and rules of both languages to adults and children, and to provide advice on religious and ethical affairs. Furthermore, the oeuvre is worth consideration and investigation due to the structure of the method utilized in the work, the volume of the dictionary, and the words prioritized in teaching the language. In the present study, the weight and significance of the abovementioned dictionary in the lexicon tradition which is an important genre in classical Turkish and Kurdish literature will be adressed