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Kurd|kɜːd|
Also 7 Coord, 8–9 Curd.
[Native name.]
One of a pastoral and agricultural people of Aryan stock, found in northern Iran and Iraq and eastern Turkey, with the adjacent regions of the U.S.S.R. (the area being collectively known as Kurdistan). Also attrib. or as adj. So ˈKurdish a., of or pertaining to the Kurds or their language, a dialect belonging to the Iranian group; as n., the language itself; Kurdiˈstan a. and n., (of) a Kurdish rug.
1616T. Roe Let. 30 Oct. in Embassy to Court of Gt. Mogul (1899) II. 310 The King..tooke occasion to take in by force a reuolted Nation to the East of Babilon. The People are Called Coords. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiii. 381 The arrows of the Carduchians... Their posterity, the Curds,..acknowledge the nominal sovereignty of the Turkish sultan. 1813Q. Rev. Oct. 257 Languages and Dialects... Median. Zendish. Pehlvish. Persian. Kurdish. Ibid. 267 The Kurds speak a corrupt Persian. 1823Byron Juan vi. lxxxvi. 29 Asia, where Kaff looks down upon the Kurds. 1836T. Skinner Adventures Journey Overland to India II. v. 69 The wife of the Kurdish traveller. 1854J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iv. iii. 265 Saladin was a Curd. 1868W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. (ed. 2) v. 192 The Persian..with its outliers on the north-west and on the east—as the Armenian, the Kurdish, the Ossetic, and the Afghan. 1882E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 325 A Kurd encampment. 1899Mrs. L. M. Elton tr. Nazarbek's Through the Storm 204 About thirty Kurdish brigands rushed out of the forest. 1920Glasgow Herald 12 May 9 Turkey accepts..a scheme of local autonomy for the predominantly Kurdish areas east of the Euphrates, south of the southern frontier of Armenia. Ibid., The Kurds inhabiting that part of Kurdistan which has hitherto been included in the Mosul vilayet are to be allowed..to adhere to the independent Kurdish State. 1924Blackw. Mag. Nov. 583/2 Pursued by a volley of oaths in English, Scots, and Kurdish. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) ii. xix. 124 It was an ordinary bell tent, furnished with..a fairly good Kurd rug, a poor Shirazi, and the delightful old Baluch prayer-carpet on which he prayed. 1931A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets Pl. 22 (caption) Kurdistan, Mina Khani Design. 1955Times 21 May 9/6 The Kurds of Iraq live along the frontiers of Turkey and Persia, among the mountains that form Iraq's natural boundaries. They are a hill people, and recognizably related to the Alpine Swiss, the Sherpas, and other mountaineers. 1963Times 12 June 11/1 Kurdish would be the first language in elementary education in Sulaymaniya. 1970D. M. Lang Armenia i. 39 Many of the neighbours of the Armenians in antiquity have vanished from the map, like the Hittites..; relapsed into barbarism, like the Kurds, descendants of the proud Medes; [etc.]. 1970L. Sanders Anderson Tapes lxv. 174 The brothers had taken a very nice Kurdistan [rug] down to the truck. 1971Guardian 3 Dec. 4/4 An unfortunate Pesh Merga (Kurdish soldier). 1973Times 9 Aug. 5/1 Mr Baluk told the court that he was a member of the Kurdish minority in Turkey. 1974Evening Standard 12 Feb. 48/5 (Advt.), Superb oriental carpets & rugs. Including:..outstanding Kurdistan rugs in fascinating geometric designs. |