The Payravand (Kurdish: پایرەوەن, Payrewen; Persian: پایروند, پایره‌وند) are a Kurdish tribe living mainly in western Iran, mostly in the provinces of Kermanshah and Ilam. They mainly speak Southern Kurdish.
History Minorsky described the "Payrawand" or "Pahrawand" as a Kurdish tribe near Kermanshah, and associated their name with their homeland on the west face of Mount Paraw (Bisotun).Minorsky, V. (1997). "Sunḳur". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IX: San–Sze. Leiden: E. J. Brill. . Others also mentioned a Kurdish tribe named Payravand or Pahravand (پهروند).Kurdische Handschriften, Kamal Fuad, 1970, pp. 135, . The name Farawand in historical sources may have been connected to the Payravand (Pahravand) tribe as the Arabized version.Kitāb At-Tājī of Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Bin Al Katib As-Sabi, Ibrāhīm ibn Hilāl Ṣābī, 1995, pp. 144. There was also a village near Kermanshah named Payravand.سرزمین و مردم ایران، عبدالحسین سعیدیان، 2004, pp. 87, . The name of the Payravand tribe was also pronounced Padravand (پادروند).کردی ایلامی: بررسی گویش بدره، غلامحسین کریمی دوستان، 2001, pp. 11, ISBN 9647425015.
The Payravand spoke a dialect of Southern Kurdish.Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish, 2022, pp. 271-273, .Kurds: A Concise Handbook, Mehrdad Izady, 2015, pp. 81, . The Payravand were mentioned in a list of the local Lak tribes compiled by J. L. Rousseau at Kermanshah in 1807.Minorsky, Vladimir (2012). "Lak". Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second ed.). Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0562. . The Payravand traditionally spent winters around Mount Paraw, Bilavar, and Dizgaran, and summers in Zohab, Qasr-e Shirin, and Qala Sabzi.تبیین اشتراکات فرهنگی در زاگرس میانی (لرستان، ایلام و کرمانشاه)، ص ١٧٢، سیاوش قلی پور، مجله پژوهش های نوین در مطالعات علوم انسانی اسلامی، سال دوم، شماره 4، پاییز و زمستان 1402. The Payravand were also among the Kurdish tribes in Qazvin.سفرنامۀ استرآباد و مازندران و گيلان و…، محمد ابراهیم، محمود گلزاری، 1976, pp. 177. The Payravand, along with the other Kurdish tribes of Rizavand and Bijanvand, were said to have been originally part of the Suramiri tribe. During the Qajar era, the Payravand and Rizavand made an alliance with the Khezel tribe. The Payravand mainly lived in Zardalan, Piyazabad, and Shilekosh.ساختار اجتماعی-سیاسی ایل خزل ایلام در غرب زاگرس مرکزی از دیدگاه انسان شناسی، ص 181-182، علی نوراللهی، پژوهش‌های انسان‌شناسی ایران، دوره 13، شماره 1 - شماره پیاپی 24، شهریور 1402، ص 179-214. DOI: 10.22059/IJAR.2023.361624.459826.
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