Kurdistan

See also: Kurdistán, Kúrdistan, and Kürdistan

English

Etymology

From a regional language like Northern Kurdish Kurdistan or Persian کردستان (Kordestân), equivalent to Kurd +‎ -i- +‎ -stan.

Proper noun

Kurdistan

1. A region in the Middle East inhabited mostly by the Kurds. It encompasses parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
   1. An autonomous region of northern and northeastern Iraq lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.
   2. A province in northwestern Iran lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.

Usage notes

Although parts of northeastern Iran and central-western Turkey also have a majority-Kurdish population, these areas are generally not considered to be part of Kurdistan, the term being reserved for the main contiguous Kurdish-majority area where Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria meet.

Related terms

• Kurdish
• Kurd

Translations

a region in the Middle East inhabited mostly by the Kurds

• Arabic: كُرْدِسْتَان m (kurdistān)
• Armenian: Քրդստան (Kʻrdstan)
• Azerbaijani: Kürdistan (az)
• Belarusian: Курдыста́н m (Kurdystán)
• Bengali: কুর্দিস্তান (kurdistan)
• Catalan: Kurdistan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫爾德斯坦／库尔德斯坦 (zh) (Kù'ěrdésītǎn), 库尔德斯坦 (zh) (Kù'ěrdésītǎn)

• Danish: Kurdistan
• Dutch: Koerdistan n
• Finnish: Kurdistan (fi)
• French: Kurdistan (fr)
• Georgian: ქურთისტანი (kurtisṭani)
• German: Kurdistan (de) n
• Greek: Κουρδιστάν n (Kourdistán)

  Ancient: Γορδυηνή f (Gorduēnḗ)

• Hebrew: כורדיסטן m (kurdistan)
• Hindi: क़ुर्दिस्तान m (qurdistān), कुर्दिस्तान m (kurdistān)
• Hungarian: Kurdisztán (hu)
• Interlingua: Kurdistan
• Irish: An Chordastáin f
• Italian: Curdistan m
• Japanese: クルディスタン (Kurudisutan)
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• Kazakh: Күрдістан (Kürdıstan)
• Korean: 쿠르디스탄 (Kureudiseutan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: کوردستان (ku) f (kurdistan), Kurdistan (ku) f

• Latin: Corduēna f
• Marathi: कुर्दिस्तान m (kurdistān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kurdistan

  Nynorsk: Kurdistan

• Oriya: ଗୁର୍ଦିସ୍ଥାନ୍ (or) (gurdisthān)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: کردستان (fa) (Kordestân)
• Polish: Kurdystan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Curdistão (pt) m
• Russian: Курдиста́н (ru) m (Kurdistán)
• Spanish: Kurdistán (es) m
• Swedish: Kurdistan n
• Tajik: Курдистон (Kurdiston)
• Turkish: Kürdistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Kürdistan
• Ukrainian: Курдиста́н m (Kurdystán)
• Urdu: کردستان m (kurdistān)
• Uyghur: كۇردىستان (kurdistan)
• Uzbek: Kurdiston

See also

• (provinces of Iran) Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Qazvin, Qom, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Yazd, Zanjan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Iran)}

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Kur‧dis‧tan
• Rhymes: -istan

Proper noun

Kurdistan n (proper noun, genitive Kurdistans or (optionally with an article) Kurdistan)

1. Kurdistan (region in the Middle East encompassing most Kurdish speakers, in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria)

Further reading

• “Kurdistan” in Duden online

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Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Kurd +‎ i +‎ -stan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊɾdɪsˈtɑːn/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Kurdistan f

1. Kurdistan

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Kurdistan

1. Kurdistan

Related terms

• kurder
• kurdisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Kurdistan

1. Kurdistan

Related terms

• kurdar
• kurdisk

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kûrdistan/
• Hyphenation: Kur‧di‧stan

Proper noun

Kȕrdistan m (Cyrillic spelling Ку̏рдистан)

1. Kurdistan

Declension

Declension of Kurdistan

	singular
nominative	Kurdistan
genitive	Kurdistana
dative	Kurdistanu
accusative	Kurdistan
vocative	Kurdistane
locative	Kurdistanu
instrumental	Kurdistanom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Kurdistan n (genitive Kurdistans)

1. Kurdistan