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 (kûor)

1. Arabic spelling of 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

Dari	کور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	кӯр (kür)

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [kʰuːɾ]

Adjective

کور • (kur)

1. blind

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.

Synonyms

• نابینا‎ (nâbinâ)

Related terms

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, 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 Persian کور‎ (kur).

Adjective

کور • (kor, kūr or 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

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.