کور

See also: گؤز, كور, گور, كوز, کوز, and گوز

Baluchi

Etymology 1

Adjective

کور • (kor)

1. blind

Etymology 2

Noun

کور • (kor)

1. river

See also

• کھور (khor)

Khalaj

Adjective

کور (kôr, kûor)

1. Arabic spelling of kôr, kûor (“blind”)

Pashto

FWOTD – 15 August 2015

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *kor < *kār, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *kār, from Proto-Iranian *kārah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kor/

Noun

کور • (kor) m (plural کورونه (koruna))

1. house

Declension

declension of کور

	singular		plural
direct	کور (kor)		کورونه (koruna)
oblique I	کور (kor)		کورونو (koruno)
oblique II	کوره (kora)		کورونو (koruno)
vocative	کوره (kora)		کورونو (koruno)

References

• Pashto English (Academy of Sciences Kabul)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwl), 𐫐𐫇𐫡 (kwr), 𐫞𐫇𐫡 (qwr /⁠kōr⁠/, “blind”). Compare Sogdian [script needed] (kwr /⁠kōr⁠/), and Old Armenian կոյր (koyr, “blind”), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [koːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰoːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰoːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰoːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰʊːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰuːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɵɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kōr
Dari reading?	kōr
Iranian reading?	kur
Tajik reading?	kür

Adjective

Dari	کور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	кӯр

کور • (kur)

1. blind

   Synonym: نابینا (nâbinâ)

Inflection

Predicative forms of کور (kur)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	کورم (kuram)	کوریم (kurim)
2nd person (“you are”)	کوری (kuri)	کورید (kurid) کورین △ (kurin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	کور است (kur ast) کوره △ (kure)	کورند (kurand) کورن △ (kuran)
△ Colloquial.

Related terms

• کوری (kuri)
• کور کردن (kur kardan)
• کور شدن (kur šodan)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: kor
• → Gujarati: કોર (kor)
• → Romani: korro
• → Kazakh: көр (kör)
• → Khalaj: kôr
• → Ottoman Turkish: كور (kör)
  • Turkish: kör
  • → Albanian: qorr
  • → Middle Armenian: քոռ (kʻoṙ)
    • Armenian: քոռ (kʻoṙ), քյոռ (kʻyoṙ)
  • → Bulgarian: кьор (kjor)
  • → Georgian: ქორი (kori)
  • → Romanian: chior
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ћор, ćor
• → Pashto: کور (kor)
• → Urdu: کور (kor, kūr)
• → Uyghur: كور (kor)
• → Uzbek: koʻr

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 631b
• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 680
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 173

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Classical Persian کور (kūr).

Adjective

کور • (kor, kūr) (Hindi spelling कोर or कूर)

1. blind

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit क्रूर (krūrá), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kruHrás.

Alternative forms

• کرور (krūr)

Adjective

کور • (kūr) (Hindi spelling कूर)

1. cruel, harsh, vile, inauspicious
2. hurt, wounded

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit कोटि (koṭi).

Noun

کور • (kor) f (Hindi spelling कोर)

1. point, tip
2. side, edge
3. splinter
4. crore

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कोर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.