[1] Little is known about his life and the most important source for him is a brief sketch by Mahmud Bayazidi from the mid-19th century.
Bayazidi wrote that Teremaxî was born in the village of Teremax (Yaylakonak today) in Miks in Kurdistan.
In his introduction, he further translated technical terms from Arabic to understandable Kurdish for his students.
Leezenberg argued, moreover, that by introducing Kurdish and Persian simultaneously, Teremaxî was aware of the major structural similarities between the two languages.
Leezenberg also noted that Teremaxî omitted the ergative construction of Kurdish which would have made him the first to describe such.