Kurd

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.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɜːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɜɹd/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /kʌɹd/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /køːd/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /keːd/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /kɛːd/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: curd; cared (fair–fur merger)

Kurd (plural Kurds)

1. 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.

• Kurdish

• Kurdistan

• druk

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkurt/

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• Rhymes: -urt
• Syllabification: Kurd
• Homophone: kurt

Kurd m pers (female equivalent Kurdyjka)

1. Kurd

• Kurd in Polish dictionaries at PWN