Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From *qūrut / *qūrt (cheese in round balls), from Proto-Turkic *kūrï- (dry).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (qurut, qurut); Tatar корт (qort), Kazakh құрт (qūrt), Kyrgyz курут (kurut), Uzbek qurt, Turkmen gurt, Khakas хурут (xurut), Tuvan курут (kurut, dried cheese).

Noun

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курут (kurut)

  1. cheese

References

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N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “курут”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN