Kurdish
/ˈkɜː(ɹ)dɪʃ/
Kurdish adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.
Adjective
Kurdish (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.
- Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.2005, Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023, page 44
Noun
Kurdish (uncountable)
- Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).
Kurdish meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
Kurdish in Hindi
- of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family
- कुर्दी kurdī, कुर्द kurd
- language family of Kurdistan
- कुर्दी kurdī
Kurdish in Marathi
- language family of Kurdistan
- कुर्दी kurdī
Kurdish in Urdu
- of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family
- کردی kurdī, کرد kurd
- language family of Kurdistan
- کردی kurdī
Kurdish in Bengali
- of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family
- কুর্দী kurdi
More languagesFewer languages
- Kurdish in Pashto
- کرد kord
- Kurdish in Arabic
- كُرْدِيّ kurdiyy, كُرْدِيَّة kurdiyya
- Kurdish in Indonesian
- Kurdi
- Kurdish in Persian
- کردی kordi
- Kurdish in Thai
- เคิร์ด, ภาษาเคิร์ด paa-sǎa kə́ət
- Kurdish in Vietnamese
- tiếng Kurd
Origin of Kurdish
From Kurd + -ish.
Words formed from Kurdish
Questions about Kurdish
- What does Kurdish mean?
- Kurdish means of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.
- What is Kurdish in Hindi?
- Kurdish in Hindi is कुर्दी (kurdī), कुर्द (kurd). See Kurdish meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Kurdish?
- Kurdish can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Kurdish?
- Kurdish is pronounced /ˈkɜː(ɹ)dɪʃ/.
Words near Kurdish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Kurdish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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