kurta

See also: kurtā

English

A man wearing an Indian-style kurta

Alternative forms

• khurta

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi कुरता (kurtā)/Urdu کرتا (kurtā), from Persian کرته (korte).

Noun

kurta (plural kurtas)

1. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 44:

     Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.

Translations

Indian shirt

• Arabic: قرطق
• Bengali: কুরতা (kurota)
• Dutch: kurta
• French: kurta (fr)
• German: Kurta
• Gujarati: ઝભ્ભો (gu) (jhabhbho)
• Hindi: कुरता (hi) m (kurtā), कुर्ता (hi) m (kurtā)
• Hungarian: kurtá
• Indonesian: kurta
• Italian: kurta (it)
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• Marathi: कुरता m (kurtā)
• Nepali : कुर्ता (hi) (kurtā)
• Norwegian: kurta
• Polish: kurta (pl)
• Portuguese: kurta f
• Russian: курта (ru) f (kurta)
• Spanish: kurta
• Swedish: kurta (sv)
• Telugu: కుర్తా (te) (kurtā)
• Urdu: کرتا m (kurtā)

References

• “kurta”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “kurta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “kurta”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “kurta” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

kurta (accusative singular kurtan, plural kurtaj, accusative plural kurtajn)

1. (chiefly poetic) short
   • 2005, Federico Gobbo, “May European Union adopt a Lingua Franca?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     La febla olda damo lante distiĝas per kurtaj paŝoj.

     The old weak Lady slowly took short steps away.

Synonyms

• mallonga

Antonyms

• longa

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Hungarian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin curta, feminine of curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkurtɒ]
• Hyphenation: kur‧ta

Adjective

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	kurta	kurták
accusative	kurtát	kurtákat
dative	kurtának	kurtáknak
instrumental	kurtával	kurtákkal
causal-final	kurtáért	kurtákért
translative	kurtává	kurtákká
terminative	kurtáig	kurtákig
essive-formal	kurtaként	kurtákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	kurtában	kurtákban
superessive	kurtán	kurtákon
adessive	kurtánál	kurtáknál
illative	kurtába	kurtákba
sublative	kurtára	kurtákra
allative	kurtához	kurtákhoz
elative	kurtából	kurtákból
delative	kurtáról	kurtákról
ablative	kurtától	kurtáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	kurtáé	kurtáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	kurtáéi	kurtákéi

Derived terms

Derived terms

• kurtácska
• kurtán

• kurtaság
• kurtít

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French court, German kurz, Italian corto, Spanish corto. Decision no. 224, Progreso IV.

Adjective

kurta

1. short

Antonyms

• longa

Derived terms

• kurteskar (“to shorten”)

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Latvian

Participle

kurta

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular masculine form of kurts
2. (deprecated template usage) nominative singular feminine form of kurts

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi

Noun

kurta f (plural kurtas)

1. kurta (a knee-length shirt used in southeast Asia)