Kurdish

English

Etymology

From Kurd +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)dɪʃ/

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Adjective

Kurdish (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

Derived terms

• Kurdishness

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: kurd
• Arabic: كُرْدِيّ‎ (kurdiyy)
• Armenian: քրդական (hy) (kʿrdakan)
• Azerbaijani: kürd
• Basque: kurdu
• Belarusian: ку́рдскі (kúrdski), ку́рдзкі (kúrdzki)
• Bengali: কুর্দী (bn) (kurdi)
• Bulgarian: кю́рдски (kjúrdski)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫爾德的／库尔德的 (kù'ěrdé de)

• Czech: kurdský (cs)
• Danish: kurdisk
• Dutch: Koerdisch (nl)
• Estonian: kurdi (et)
• Finnish: kurdilainen, (in compounds) kurdi- (fi)
• French: kurde (fr)
• Gagauz: kürd
• Georgian: ქურთული (kurtuli)
• German: kurdisch (de)
• Greek: κουρδικός (el) (kourdikós)
• Hebrew: כּוּרדִי‎ (he) (kurdi)
• Hindi: कुर्दी (kurdī), कुर्द (kurd)
• Hungarian: kurd (hu)
• Irish: Coirdíneach, Coirdise (language)
• Italian: curdo (it)
• Japanese: クルドの (kurudo no)
• Kazakh: күрд (kürd)
• Korean: 쿠르드 (kureudeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کوردی‎ (ckb) (kurdî)

  Laki: کوردی‎ (ku) (kurdî)

  Northern Kurdish: Kurdî (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: کوردی‎ (ku) (kurdî)

• Kyrgyz: күрд (kürd)
• Latin: curdicus
• Latvian: kurdu, kurdisks
• Laz: Çurdi, Kyurdi
• Lithuanian: kurdų (lt)
• Macedonian: курдски (kurdski)
• Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: курд (kurd)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kurdisk (no)

  Nynorsk: kurdisk

• Ossetian: курдаг (kurdag)
• Pashto: کرد‎ (kord)
• Persian: کردی‎ (fa) (kordi)
• Polish: kurdyjski (pl)
• Portuguese: curdo (pt)
• Romanian: kurd (ro)
• Russian: ку́рдский (ru) (kúrdskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̏рдскӣ

  Roman: kȕrdskī (sh)

• Slovak: kurdský
• Slovene: kurdski (sl)
• Spanish: curdo (es)
• Svan: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: kurdisk (sv)
• Tajik: курдӣ (tg) (kurdī)
• Tatar: көрд (tt) (körd)
• Turkish: Kürt (tr)
• Turkmen: kurd
• Ukrainian: ку́рдський (kúrdsʹkyj)
• Urdu: کردی‎ (kurdī), کرد‎ (kurd)
• Uyghur: كۇرد‎ (kurd)
• Uzbek: kurd (uz)
• Yiddish: קורדיש‎ (kurdish)

Noun

Kurdish (uncountable)

1. Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).

Derived terms

• Central Kurdish
• Northern Kurdish
• Southern Kurdish

Translations

language family of Kurdistan

• Amharic: ኩርድኛ (kurdəña)
• Arabic: كُرْدِيَّة‎ (ar) f (kurdiyya)
• Armenian: քրդերեն (hy) (kʿrderen)
• Asturian: curdu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani:

  Cyrillic: күрдҹә

  Perso-Arabic: کوردجه‎

  Roman: kürdcə (az)

• Basque: kurduera (eu)
• Belarusian: ку́рдская f (kúrdskaja)
• Bulgarian: кю́рдски (kjúrdski)
• Catalan: kurd (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎫᎸᏗ (gulvdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫爾德語／库尔德语 (zh) (kù'ěrdéyǔ)

• Czech: kurdština f
• Danish: kurdisk c
• Dutch: Koerdisch (nl) n
• Estonian: Kurdi
• Finnish: kurdi (fi), kurdin kieli
• French: kurde (fr) m
• Gagauz:

  Cyrillic: кӱрдче

  Roman: kürdçe

• Georgian: ქურთული (kurtuli)
• German: Kurdisch (de) n
• Greek: κουρδικά (el) (kourdiká)
• Greenlandic: kurdiskisut
• Hebrew: כורדית‎ f (kurdít)
• Hindi: कुर्दी f (kurdī)
• Hungarian: kurd (hu)
• Icelandic: kúrdíska (is) f
• Indonesian: Kurdi
• Irish: Coirdis f
• Italian: curdo (it) m
• Japanese: クルド語 (ja) (クルドご, kurudogo)
• Kazakh: күрд тілі (kürd tılı), күрдше (kürdşe)
• Korean: 쿠르드어 (ko) (kureudeueo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کوردی‎ (ckb) (kurdî)

  Laki: کوردی‎ (ku) (kurdî)

  Northern Kurdish: kurdî (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: کوردی‎ (ku) (kurdî)

• Kyrgyz: курд (kurd)
• Latvian: kurdu valoda f
• Lithuanian: kurdiškai
• Macedonian: курдски m (kurdski)
• Marathi: कुर्दी f (kurdī)
• Moksha: курдонь (kurdoń)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: курд хэл (kurd xel)

• Navajo: Kʼóódii bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kurdisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: kurdisk m

• Ossetian: курдаг (kurdag)
• Persian: کردی‎ (fa) (kordi)
• Polish: kurdyjski (pl)
• Portuguese: curdo (pt) m
• Romanian: kurdă (ro) f
• Russian: ку́рдский (ru) m (kúrdskij), ку́рдский язы́к (ru) (kúrdskij jazýk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̏рдскӣ m

  Roman: kȕrdskī (sh) m

• Slovak: kurdčina (sk) f
• Slovene: kurdščina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kurdšćina f

  Upper Sorbian: kurdšćina f

• Spanish: kurdo (es) m, curdo (es) m
• Swedish: kurdiska (sv)
• Tajik: курдӣ (tg) (kurdī)
• Turkish: Kürtçe (tr)
• Turkmen:

  Cyrillic: күртче

  Roman: kürtçe

• Ukrainian: ку́рдська (uk) f (kúrdsʹka)
• Urdu: کردی‎ f (kurdī)
• Uyghur: كۇردچە‎ (kurdche)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: курдча (kurdcha)

  Roman: kurdcha

• Vietnamese: tiếng Kurd
• Walloon: Kurdi
• West Frisian: Koerdysk
• Yiddish: קורדיש‎ n (kurdish)

Related terms

• Kurd
• Kurdistan

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ku, ISO 639-3 code kur (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Kurdish, kur ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

• Ethnologue entry for Central Kurdish, ckb ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Northern Kurdish, kmr ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Southern Kurdish, sdh ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Laki, lki ⁠

Anagrams

• dhurkis