Kurd

See also: kurd

English

Etymology

Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Persian کرد (kord), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwrt /⁠kurd⁠/), ultimately of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /kɜː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
• Homophone: curd

Noun

Kurd (plural Kurds)

1. A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Armenia and Georgia sometimes known as Kurdistan.
   • 1595, Abraham Hartwell, The History of the Warres between the Turkes and the Persians‎^[1], translation of Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani by Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi:

     Curdi, B[arbarous]. a people which many think to be the Parthians, A[uncient]. But we cannot possiblie thinke them to be so. wherein we agree with Castaldo.

   • 1865, Charles Wells, Mehemet, the Kurd, and Other Tales, from Eastern Sources, page 16:

     Mehemet took her for a man and said, “Good father, I am a Kurd: my story is very curious”

   • 2018 May 8, Sarah El Deeb, “In a new justice system, Kurds put IS on trial eyeing reconciliation”, in Sydney Morning Herald‎^[2]:

     After defeating IS in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the group's members.

Derived terms

• Kurdish

Related terms

• Kurdistan

Translations

a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: كُرْدِيّ (kurdiyy)
• Armenian: քուրդ (hy) (kʻurd)
• Azerbaijani: Kürd
• Bulgarian: Кюрд (Kjurd)
• Catalan: kurd (ca) m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: kurder c
• Faroese: kurdi m
• Finnish: kurdi (fi), kurdit
• French: Kurde (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ქურთი (kurti)
• German: Kurde (de) m, Kurdin (de) f
• Hebrew: כורדי m (kúrdi)
• Hindi: कुर्द (kurd)
• Ido: Kurdo (io)
• Irish: Coirdíneach m
• Italian: curdo (it) m
• Kazakh: күрд (kürd)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کورد (kurd)

  Laki: کورد (kurd)

  Northern Kurdish: Kurd (ku) m

  Southern Kurdish: کورد (kurd)

• Latvian: kurds m, kurdiete f
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• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: Курд (Kurd)
• Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kurder (no) m

  Nynorsk: kurdar m

• Persian: کرد (fa) (kord)
• Portuguese: curdo (pt) m
• Romanian: kurd (ro) m, kurdă (ro) f
• Russian: курд (ru) m (kurd), курдка (ru) f (kurdka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Курд m, Курдкиња f

  Roman: Kurd m, Kurdkinja f

• Slovak: Kurd
• Slovene: Kurd (sl)
• Spanish: kurdo (es) m, kurda (es) f
• Swedish: kurd (sv) c (male), kurdiska (sv) c (female)
• Tatar: көрд (tt) (körd)
• Turkish: Kürt (tr)
• Turkmen: kürt
• Urdu: کرد (kurd)
• Uyghur: كۇرت (kurt)
• Uzbek: Kurd

Anagrams

• druk

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Polish

Etymology

Ultimately from the same source as English Kurd.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Kurd m pers (female equivalent Kurdyjka)

1. Kurd

Declension

Declension of Kurd

	singular	plural
nominative	Kurd	Kurdowie
genitive	Kurda	Kurdów
dative	Kurdowi	Kurdom
accusative	Kurda	Kurdów
instrumental	Kurdem	Kurdami
locative	Kurdzie	Kurdach
vocative	Kurdzie	Kurdowie

Related terms

• Kurdystan

External links

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