Kurd
See also: kurd
English edit
Etymology edit
Attested in English since roughly 1600,[1][2][3] from Kurdish کورد (kurd)[4] and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.
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Noun edit
Kurd (plural Kurds)
- A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
- 1595, Abraham Hartwell, The History of the Warres between the Turkes and the Persians[1], translation of Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani by Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi:
- Curdi, B[arbarous]. a people which many think to be the Parthians, A[uncient]. But we cannot possiblie thinke them to be so. wherein we agree with Castaldo.
- 1865, Charles Wells, Mehemet, the Kurd, and Other Tales, from Eastern Sources, page 16:
- Mehemet took her for a man and said, “Good father, I am a Kurd: my story is very curious”
- 2018 May 8, Sarah El Deeb, “In a new justice system, Kurds put IS on trial eyeing reconciliation”, in Sydney Morning Herald[2]:
- After defeating IS in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the group's members.
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a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
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References edit
- ^ “Kurd”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. (1595)
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Kurd”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. (1610s)
- ^ “Kurd”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (1610-20)
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
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Proper noun edit
Kurd m pers (female equivalent Kurdyjka)
Declension edit
Declension of Kurd
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Further reading edit
- Kurd in Polish dictionaries at PWN