Our story

Xeyala

/ kheh-YAH-la /

Xeyala started simply because I wanted a way of gifting a memory to a very good friend.

The name

xeyal

/ kheh-YAL /

Imagination. A daydream. The vision your mind reaches for when you picture something that isn't there yet.

One word, many tongues

From Kurdistan to Southeast Asia, it travelled with traders, poets and pilgrims, and kept its meaning the whole way - imagination, in language after language.

  • xeyal Kurdish
  • خيال Arabic · khayāl
  • خیال Persian · khayāl
  • hayal Turkish
  • xəyal Azerbaijani
  • hyýal Turkmen
  • xayol Uzbek
  • қиял Kazakh · qiyal
  • кыял Kyrgyz · kıyal
  • хаёл Tajik · khayol
  • خيال Pashto · khyāl
  • خیال Urdu · khayāl
  • ਖ਼ਿਆਲ Punjabi · khiāl
  • ख़याल Hindi · khayāl
  • খেয়াল Bengali · kheyal
  • khayal Malay
  • khayal Indonesian

Xeyal is that imagination. Xeyala is the studio we built to give it shape, and to put it in your hands.

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