Kurdish

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Kurdish

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Kurdish edition of Wiktionary

Etymology

From Kurd +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)dɪʃ/

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Adjective

Kurdish (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

Derived terms

• Kurdishness

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Albanian: kurd Arabic: كُرْدِيّ (kurdiyy) Armenian: քրդական (hy) (kʻrdakan) Azerbaijani: kürd Basque: kurdu Belarusian: ку́рдскі (kúrdski), ку́рдзкі (kúrdzki) Bengali: কুর্দী (bn) (kurdi) Bulgarian: кю́рдски (kjúrdski) Chechen: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 庫爾德的 / 库尔德的 (kù'ěrdé de), 庫爾德 / 库尔德 (zh) (Kù'ěrdé) Czech: kurdský (cs) Danish: kurdisk Dutch: Koerdisch (nl) Estonian: kurdi (et) Finnish: kurdilainen, (in compounds) kurdi- (fi) French: kurde (fr) Gagauz: kürd Georgian: ქურთული (kurtuli) German: kurdisch (de) Greek: κουρδικός (el) (kourdikós) Hebrew: כּוּרדִי (he) (kurdi) Hindi: कुर्दी (kurdī), कुर्द (kurd) Hungarian: kurd (hu) Irish: Coirdíneach, Coirdise (language) Italian: curdo (it) Japanese: クルドの (kurudo no) Kazakh: күрд (kürd) Korean: 쿠르드 (kureudeu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کوردی (ckb) (kurdî) Laki: کوردی (ku) (kurdî) Northern Kurdish: Kurdî (ku) Southern Kurdish: کوردی (ku) (kurdî) Kyrgyz: күрд (kürd) Latin: curdicus, kurdicus Latvian: kurdu, kurdisks Laz: Çurdi, Kyurdi Lithuanian: kurdų (lt) Macedonian: курдски (kurdski) Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: курд (kurd) Norwegian: Bokmål: kurdisk (no) Nynorsk: kurdisk Ossetian: курдаг (kurdag) Pashto: کرد (kord) Persian: کردی (fa) (kordi) Polish: kurdyjski (pl) Portuguese: curdo (pt) Romanian: kurd (ro) Russian: ку́рдский (ru) (kúrdskij) Scottish Gaelic: Cùrdach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ку̏рдскӣ Roman: kȕrdskī (sh) Slovak: kurdský Slovene: kurdski (sl) Spanish: curdo (es) Svan: please add this translation if you can Swedish: kurdisk (sv) Tajik: курдӣ (tg) (kurdi) Tatar: көрд (tt) (körd) Turkish: Kürt (tr) Turkmen: kurd Ukrainian: ку́рдський (kúrdsʹkyj) Urdu: کردی (kurdī), کرد (kurd) Uyghur: كۇرد (kurd) Uzbek: kurd (uz) Yiddish: קורדיש (kurdish)

Noun

Kurdish (uncountable)

2. Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).

Derived terms

• Central Kurdish
• Northern Kurdish
• Southern Kurdish

Translations

language family of Kurdistan

Amharic: ኩርድኛ (kurdəña) Arabic: كُرْدِيَّة (ar) f (kurdiyya) Armenian: քրդերեն (hy) (kʻrderen) Asturian: curdu (ast) m Azerbaijani: Cyrillic: күрдҹә Perso-Arabic: کوردجه Roman: kürdcə (az) Basque: kurduera (eu) Belarusian: ку́рдская f (kúrdskaja) Bulgarian: кю́рдски (kjúrdski) Catalan: kurd (ca) m Cherokee: ᎫᎸᏗ (gulvdi) Chinese: Mandarin: 庫爾德語 / 库尔德语 (zh) (kù'ěrdéyǔ) Czech: kurdština f Danish: kurdisk c Dutch: Koerdisch (nl) n Estonian: Kurdi Finnish: kurdi (fi), kurdin kieli French: kurde (fr) m Gagauz: Cyrillic: кӱрдче Roman: kürdçe Georgian: ქურთული (kurtuli) German: Kurdisch (de) n Greek: κουρδικά (el) (kourdiká) Greenlandic: kurdiskisut Hebrew: כורדית f (kurdít) Hindi: कुर्दी f (kurdī) Hungarian: kurd (hu) Icelandic: kúrdíska (is) f Indonesian: Kurdi Irish: Coirdis f Italian: curdo (it) m Japanese: クルド語 (ja) (クルドご, kurudogo) Kazakh: күрд тілі (kürd tılı), күрдше (kürdşe) Korean: 쿠르드어 (ko) (kureudeueo) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کوردی (ckb) (kurdî) Laki: کوردی (ku) (kurdî) Northern Kurdish: kurdî (ku) Southern Kurdish: کوردی (ku) (kurdî) Kyrgyz: курд (kurd) Latvian: kurdu valoda f Lithuanian: kurdiškai Macedonian: курдски m (kurdski) Marathi: कुर्दी f (kurdī) Moksha: курдонь (kurdoń) Mongolian: Cyrillic: курд хэл (kurd xel) Navajo: Kʼóódii bizaad Norwegian: Bokmål: kurdisk (no) m Nynorsk: kurdisk m Ossetian: курдаг (kurdag) Persian: کردی (fa) (kordi) Polish: kurdyjski (pl) Portuguese: curdo (pt) m Romanian: kurdă (ro) f Russian: ку́рдский (ru) m (kúrdskij), ку́рдский язы́к (ru) (kúrdskij jazýk) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ку̏рдскӣ m Roman: kȕrdskī (sh) m Slovak: kurdčina (sk) f Slovene: kurdščina (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kurdšćina f Upper Sorbian: kurdšćina f Spanish: kurdo (es) m, curdo (es) m Swedish: kurdiska (sv) Tajik: курдӣ (tg) (kurdi) Turkish: Kürtçe (tr) Turkmen: Cyrillic: күртче Roman: kürtçe Ukrainian: ку́рдська (uk) f (kúrdsʹka) Urdu: کردی f (kurdī) Uyghur: كۇردچە (kurdche) Uzbek: Cyrillic: курдча (kurdcha) Roman: kurdcha Vietnamese: tiếng Kurd Walloon: Kurdi West Frisian: Koerdysk Yiddish: קורדיש n (kurdish)

Related terms

• Kurd
• Kurdistan

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ku, ISO 639-3 code kur (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Kurdish, kur ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

• Ethnologue entry for Central Kurdish, ckb ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Northern Kurdish, kmr ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Southern Kurdish, sdh ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Laki, lki ⁠

Anagrams

• dhurkis