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Definition of Kurdish

1. Noun. An Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Kurdistan or the Kurds or their language and culture. "Kurdish Moslems"

Definition of Kurdish

1. a. Of or pertaining to the Kurds.

Definition of Kurdish

1. Proper noun. Language of Kurdistan (In the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains). ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurdish

Kunlun Mountains Kunming Kuntscher Kuntscher nail Kununurra Kuomintang Kuopio Kupffer Kupffer's cell Kuppfer cell

Kur Kura Kura River Kurd Kurdestan Kurdish (current term) Kurdishness Kurdistan Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast Kurdistan Labor Pary

Kurdistan Workers Party Kurdistani Kurdistanis Kurdophone Kurdophones Kurds Kurgan Kuria Kurigram District Kuril Islands

Literary usage of Kurdish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Turkey: Violations of Free Expression in Turkey by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Christopher Panico, Human Rights Watch (1999)
"An ethnic Kurdish businessman from Diyarbakir commented that, You have to change the ... It is because of the laws that there isn't Kurdish broadcasting. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"No doubt the original Kurdish organization was tribal, ... Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of the Kurdish chief is pride of ancestry. ..."

3. Weapons Transfers and Violations of the Laws of War in Turkey by James Ron (1995)
"The Turkish-Kurdish Conflict Since, the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, has fought the Turkish state in an attempt to carve out an independent zone for ..."

4. Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds by George Black (1993)
"... Special Unit (Kurdish section of Amn) Commandos I Peshmerga Regional Command (PUK) Complex or collective village used for Kurdish resettlement Foreign ..."

5. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1844)
"The Kurdish race and language reach northward to Armenia, ... With the wanderings of the Kurdish people their idiom has also extended into the plains which ..."

6. Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia: With by Horatio Southgate (1840)
"DESCENT FROM MARDIN—FACE OF THE COUNTRY—Kurdish VILLAGE— A Kurdish CHIEF — His FAMILY — APPROACH TO ... Before night we reached the Kurdish village of Av- ..."

7. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"The Kurdish tongue is not connected either with Persian or Turkish, ... Poetic feeling often manifests itself among Kurdish women, who compose many graceful ..."

8. Unquiet Graves: The Search for the Disappeared in Iraqi Kurdistan by Eric Stover, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.), Middle East Watch (Organization) (1992)
"The Autonomous Region once again became known as the Kurdish Autonomous Region. Thousands of resettled Kurds were permitted to return to Kurdistan; ..."

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