Khalaj

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Noun

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قوُرت (qûrt) (definite accusative قوُرتوُ, plural قوُرتلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of qûrt (worm)

Declension

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Ottoman Turkish

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قورت

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kūrt (worm; wolf); cognate with Azerbaijani qurd, Bashkir ҡорт (qort), Chuvash хорт (hort), Kazakh құрт (qūrt), Kyrgyz курт (kurt), Turkmen gurt, Tuvan курт (kurt), Uyghur قۇرۇت (qurut) and Uzbek qurt.

Noun

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قورت (kurt) (definite accusative قوردی (kurdu), plural قورتلر (kurtlar))

  1. wolf, the largest wild member of the canine subfamily, Canis lupus
    Synonyms: ذیب (zeyb), گرك (gurk)
  2. worm, any generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum
    Synonyms: دود (dud), صوغلجان (soğulcan), كرم (kerm)
  3. maggot, grub, any soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: kurt

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