Kurd

[ kurd, koord; Persian koord ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.

Kurd

/ kɜːd /

Origin of Kurd¹

First recorded in 1610–20

Our members are from every group: Sunni, Shia, Christian, Turcoman, Kurd.

I traveled to Kurd areas by helicopter with former Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003.

A few days later, I talked with my friend Salar, a Sunni Kurd.

Among the challenges is how to deal with the Arab-Kurd fault line and the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

As Tareq Al-Hashemi did before the election, when he said that an Arab should be president of Iraq, not a Kurd.

A Kurd has a sport-loving soul, and the offer was accepted at once; particularly as their rifles do not throw too accurately.

On another occasion, a Kurd came to one of our European staff, with a request to have a tooth extracted.

Evidently not a pure Arab, he claimed various admixtures as the fancy took him, the general preference being Kurd.

These pass from Kurd to Cossack by theft, by gift, by loss; they pass from nation to nation by accident, which is Divine design.

Tribute of food and fur would be required from Kurd and Tartar and wild Siberian tribe.

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