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Kurd

American

[kurd, koord, koord] / kɜrd, kʊərd, kurd /

noun

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

Kurd British

/ kɜːd /

noun

a member of a nomadic people living chiefly in E Turkey, N Iraq, and W Iran

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Etymology

Origin of Kurd

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

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One person seemingly determined to ignore the war was Adnan Abdo, a Syrian Kurd who worked as a farmhand in Tyre.

From Los Angeles Times

Persians, Parsis, Kurds, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Uzbeks and other cultures celebrate the festival and have their own traditions surrounding it.

From BBC

The Iranian Kurds have a tense relationship with the central government and have their own armed groups.

From The Wall Street Journal

We meet Bloori, 53, in northern Iraq at a tented camp for Iranian Kurds where he is training a new generation of Peshmerga – "those who face death".

From BBC

Iraqi Shias in the south and Kurds in the north of the country started an armed revolt against his regime.

From BBC

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