Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

курут (kurut)

  1. cheese

References edit

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