Kurd

Kurd

See also: kurd

English

Etymology

Attested in English since roughly 1600,[1][2][3] from Kurdish کورد‎ (kurd)[4] and Persian کرد‎ (kord), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.

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 mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
   • 1595, Abraham Hartwell, The History of the Warres between the Turkes and the Persians‎, 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:

     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) (kʿurd) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܘܼܪܕܵܝܵܐ‎ (qurdaya) Azerbaijani: Kürd Bengali: কুর্দ (kurdô) Bulgarian: Кюрд (Kjurd) Catalan: kurd (ca) m Chechen: please add this translation if you can Danish: kurder c Dutch: Koerd (nl) m Faroese: kurdi m Finnish: kurdi (fi), kurdit French: Kurde (fr) m or f Georgian: ქურთი (ka) (kurti) German: Kurde (de) m, Kurdin (de) f Hebrew: כורדי‎ (he) m (kúrdi) Hindi: कुर्द (kurd) Ido: Kurdo (io) Irish: Coirdíneach m Italian: curdo (it) m Kazakh: күрд (kürd) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کورد‎ (ku) (kurd) Laki: کورد‎ (ku) (kurd) Northern Kurdish: kurd (ku) m Southern Kurdish: کورد‎ (ku) (kurd) Latin: Corduēnus m Latvian: kurds m, kurdiete f Laz: Çurdi, Kyurdi Macedonian: Курд (Kurd) Mingrelian: ქურთი (kurti) 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

References

1. “Kurd”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (1595)
2. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Kurd”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. (1610s)
3. “Kurd”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (1610-20)
4. Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• druk

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Polish

Etymology

Ultimately from the same source as English Kurd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurt/

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• Rhymes: -urt
• Syllabification: Kurd

Proper noun

Kurd m pers (feminine 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

 

• kurdyjski

 

Further reading

• Kurd in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Kurd in Polish dictionaries at PWN