kurdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwrt /⁠kurd⁠/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA: /kɜːd/
• (General American) IPA: /kɜɹd/
• (Scotland) IPA: /kʌɹd/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /køːd/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /keːd/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /kɛːd/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)d
• 異形同音異義語: curd; cared (fair–fur merger)

名詞

Kurd (plural Kurds)

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.

   Kurds live in several countries.

   I took classes with a Kurd.

   • 1595, Abraham Hartwell, The History of the Warres between the Turkes and the Persians‎, translation of Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani by Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi:

     Curdi, B[arbarous]. a people which many think to be the Parthians, A[uncient]. But we cannot possiblie thinke them to be so. wherein we agree with Castaldo.

   • 1865, Charles Wells, Mehemet, the Kurd, and Other Tales, from Eastern Sources, page 16:

     Mehemet took her for a man and said, “Good father, I am a Kurd: my story is very curious”

   • 2018 May 8, Sarah El Deeb, “In a new justice system, Kurds put IS on trial eyeing reconciliation”, in Sydney Morning Herald‎:

     After defeating IS in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the group's members.

派生語

• Kurdish

関連する語

• Kurdistan

参照

アナグラム

• druk