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Definition of kurds

Kurd
Kurd Kurd, n. A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

Meaning of kurds from wikipedia

- Kurdish people or Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern...
-  'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent...
- million people). Kurdish sources put the figure at 10 to 15 million Kurds in Turkey. Kurds mostly live in Northern Kurdistan, in Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia...
- Zaza–Gorani languages, are also spoken by several million ethnic Kurds. The majority of the Kurds speak Kurmanji, and most Kurdish texts are written in Kurmanji...
- been committed against the Kurds, with one prominent incident being the Zilan M****acre. The Turkish government categorized Kurds as "Mountain Turks" until...
- whom it has been reinterpreted as meaning "speaker of Kūrd. A proposed connection with the Kurds of Western Asia has been dismissed by Elfenbein as folk...
- sources as Akrad 'Adawiyya (Adawiyya Kurds), settled in Lalish valley and introduced his doctrines to the local Kurds at the time practicing an old Iranic...
- of Sèvres, Iraqi Kurds have experienced a recent troubled political history. After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurds, now governed by the...
- (Proto-Balochs) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds (Proto-Kurds), in the wording of G. Windfuhr (1975: 459), lived either in northwestern...
- romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. 'Kurdishness / Kurdism') is a nationalist political movement which ****erts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of...