mankurt

English

Etymology

From Russian манкурт (mankurt). Coined by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, in which people are turned into docile servants (mankurts) by exposing camel skin wrapped around their heads to the heat of the sun; the skins tighten as they dry, causing brain damage, such that the mankurts no longer recognize their name, family, or tribe—"a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being".

Noun

mankurt (plural mankurts)

1. (derogatory, uncommon) A person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry, especially due to being affected by a dominant culture.

Translations

An individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry

• Armenian: մանկուրտ (hy) (mankurt)
• Bashkir: маңҡорт (mañqort)
• Georgian: მანქურთი (mankurti)
• Kazakh: мәңгүрт (mäñgürt)
• Latvian: mankurts m
• Lithuanian: mankurtas m
• Polish: mankurt m
• Romanian: mancurt m

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian манку́рт (mankúrt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.kurt/
• Rhymes: -aŋkurt
• Syllabification: man‧kurt

Noun

mankurt m pers

1. mankurt (individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his or her ancestry)

Declension

Declension of mankurt

	singular	plural
nominative	mankurt	mankurci/mankurty (deprecative)
genitive	mankurta	mankurtów
dative	mankurtowi	mankurtom
accusative	mankurta	mankurtów
instrumental	mankurtem	mankurtami
locative	mankurcie	mankurtach
vocative	mankurcie	mankurci