Kurd
//kɜːd// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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.
"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."
- 2 a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.
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