Kurgan

//kʊəˈɡɑːn//

Synonyms for "kurgan" (4 found)

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Related words (2)

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Translations

58 translations across 38 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • كُورْغَان name (city)

Armenian

1 entries
  • Կուրգան name (city)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • Kurqan name (city)
  • kurqan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Bashkir

2 entries
  • Ҡорған name (city)
  • Ҡурған name (city)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • Курга́н name (city)
  • курга́н noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • Курга́н name (city)
  • курга́н noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Catalan

1 entries
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 庫爾干 /库尔干 noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 庫爾干 /库尔干 name (city)
  • 庫爾干 /库尔干 noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Czech

1 entries
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Danish

2 entries
  • Kurgan name (city)
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Dutch

2 entries
  • Koergan name (city)
  • koergan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Estonian

1 entries
  • kurgaan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Finnish

2 entries
  • Kurgan name (city)
  • kurgaani noun (prehistoric burial mound)

French

2 entries
  • Kourgan name (city)
  • kourgane noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Georgian

1 entries
  • კურგანი name (city)

German

1 entries
  • Kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Hindi

1 entries
  • कुर्गान name (city)

Italian

1 entries
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Japanese

2 entries
  • クルガン name (city)
  • クルガン noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Kalmyk

1 entries
  • толһа noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • Қорған name (city)
  • қорған noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Korean

2 entries
  • 쿠르간 name (city)
  • 쿠르간 noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Latvian

1 entries
  • Kurgana name (city)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • Kurganas name (city)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • Курга́н name (city)

Persian

2 entries
  • قرغان noun (prehistoric burial mound)
  • کورگان noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Polish

1 entries
  • kurhan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • Kurgan name (city)
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Russian

2 entries
  • Курга́н name (city)
  • курга́н noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • Kurgan name (city)
  • Курган name (city)
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Siberian Tatar

1 entries
  • Ҡатир-тора name (city)

Spanish

2 entries
  • Kurgán name (city)
  • kurgán noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Swedish

2 entries
  • gravhög noun (prehistoric burial mound)
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Tatar

1 entries
  • Корган name (city)

Thai

1 entries
  • คูร์กัน name (city)

Turkish

1 entries
  • kurgan noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • Курга́н name (city)
  • курга́н noun (prehistoric burial mound)

Sample sentences

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The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans.

Source: wiktionary

A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.

Source: wiktionary

In 1897 N. I. Veselovskii excavated the very large, nearly 11 meter high Oshad kurgan or barrow in the town of Maikop in the Kuban region near the foothills of the northwestern Caucasus (the present-day capital of the Adygei Republic).[…]This discovery stimulated the excavation of other large kurgans located in the same general region, some of which seemed royal-like in their dimensions and, when not robbed in antiquity, in their materials.

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Even in the middle Volga region some kurgans have central graves containing adult females, as at Krasnosamarskoe IV.[…]The appearance of adult females in one out of five kurgan graves, including central graves, suggests that gender was not the only factor that determined who was buried under a kurgan.

Source: wiktionary

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