noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation:/kɜːd/
General-American:/kɜɹd/
US:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
Scotland:/kʌɹd/
New-Zealand:/køːd/
/keːd/Liverpool, fair–fur merger
/kɛːd/Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: curd
homophone: cared (fair–fur merger)
CMU ARPABET:K ER1 D
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Kurds live in several countries.
I took classes with a Kurd.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Abkhaz:
ақәы́рд
(akwə́rd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Arabic:
كُرْدِيّ
(kurdiyy)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:
ܩܘܼܪܕܵܝܵܐ
(qurdaya)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Armenian:
քուրդ
(kʻurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Azerbaijani:
Kürd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Bengali:
কুর্দ
(kurdo)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Bulgarian:
Кюрд
(Kjurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Catalan:
kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Danish:
kurder
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Dutch:
Koerd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Faroese:
kurdi
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Finnish:
kurdi
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Finnish:
kurdit
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
French:
Kurde
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Gagauz:
kürd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Georgian:
ქურთი
(kurti)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
German:
Kurde
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
German:
Kurdin
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Greek:
Κούρδος
(Koúrdos)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Hebrew:
כורדי
(kúrdi)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Hindi:
कुर्द
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Ido:
Kurdo
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Irish:
Coirdíneach
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Italian:
curdo
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Kazakh:
күрд
(kürd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Central Kurdish:
کورد
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Laki:
کورد
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Northern Kurdish:
kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Southern Kurdish:
کورد
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Latin:
Corduēnus
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Latvian:
kurds
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Latvian:
kurdiete
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Laz:
Çurdi
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Laz:
Kyurdi
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Macedonian:
Курд
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Mingrelian:
ქურთი
(kurti)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Norwegian Bokmål:
kurder
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Norwegian Nynorsk:
kurdar
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Dari:
کُرْد
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Iranian Persian:
کُرْد
(kord)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Portuguese:
curdo
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Romanian:
kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Romanian:
kurdă
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Russian:
курд
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Russian:
курдка
(kurdka)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Serbo-Croatian:
Курд
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Serbo-Croatian:
Курдкиња
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Serbo-Croatian:
Kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Serbo-Croatian:
Kurdkinja
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Slovak:
Kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Slovene:
Kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Spanish:
kurdo
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Spanish:
kurda
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Swahili:
Mkurdi
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Swedish:
kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Swedish:
kurdiska
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Tajik:
курд
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Tatar:
көрд
(körd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Thai:
ชาวเคิร์ด
(chaao kə́ət)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Turkish:
Kürt
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Turkmen:
kürt
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Urdu:
کرد
(kurd)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Uyghur:
كۇرت
(kurt)
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Uzbek:
Kurd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Uzbek:
Курд
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
Welsh:
Cwrd
— a member of the people inhabiting Kurdistan
