Kut

name, noun

name, noun ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, used to signify the joint issue of stamps by these countries from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    A city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Korean 굿 (gut), romanized as kut under the McCune-Reischauer romanization system.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ٱلْكُوت (l-kūt).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.