What is another word for Kurd?

Pronunciation: [kˈɜːd] (IPA)

Kurd is a term used to describe an ethnic group that primarily resides in the Middle East, particularly in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. However, there are several other ways to refer to the Kurds, including Kurmanji, Kermanji, Kermeci, Kirdi, and Kurdu. These synonyms are often used interchangeably with the term Kurd and are derived from the different dialects of the Kurdish language. The Kurdish people have a rich history and culture and have been striving to gain autonomy and recognition for their unique identity. While the term Kurd is widely recognized, it is essential to respect and acknowledge the various synonyms used to describe this vibrant community.

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  • Equivalence

    • Adjective
      kurds.
  • Reverse Entailment

    • Proper noun, singular
      KURDI, kurdistani.
  • Other Related

What are the hypernyms for Kurd?

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Usage examples for Kurd

Saladin was a Kurd from the Tigris districts; but his training and his following were purely Turkish, moulded on the Seljuk model, and recruited largely from the Seljuk lands.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI."
Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
The executioner, a hook-nosed Kurd with eyes like a bird of prey, stationed, as always, at the Sultan's right hand, began to look at the slight woman in grey with a professional interest.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
After we had employed a Kurd to make these for them, they declared they were afraid to proceed without the company of ten Kurds armed to the teeth.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

Famous quotes with Kurd

  • Since 1968, the Baath have been trashing the only idea that can hold the great social diversity of Iraq together: the idea of Iraq. Their answer to the question "Who am I?" was: You are either one of us, or you are dead. True to their word, they killed anyone who dared to say he was a Kurd or a Shiite or a leftist, or a democrat and a liberal. Contrary to what many Iraqi Shiites tend to think nowadays, the Baath never wanted to build a Sunni confessional state in Iraq. Anti-Shiite sectarianism was introduced on a large scale after the uprising of 1991. The state that the Baath built in Iraq up until the 1991 Gulf War was worse than sectarian. It thrived on the distrust, suspicion and fear that it went about inculcating in everyone. In this sense it was consistently egalitarian. Atomizing society by breeding hate and a thirst for revenge was the regime's highest ambition and principal tool of social control. Every Iraqi -- Kurd or Arab, Muslim or Christian, Shiite or Sunni -- became both complicit in the Baathist enterprise and its victim at the same time.
    Kanan Makiya

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