Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a pastoral and agricultural people inhabiting the transnational region of Kurdistan in southwest Asia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A member of a pastoral and predatory Aryan race, which gives its name to Kurdistan, a region of Asia lying partly in Turkey and partly in Persia. The Kurds speak an Iranic language, and are mostly Sunni Mohammedans. Rarely spelled Curd.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who inhabit those parts of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union sometimes known as Kurdistan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A member of a people who inhabit a mountainous region of Western Asia, sometimes referred to as Kurdistan, spread over an area including adjoining parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Syria. The people of this region speak Kurdish and are mostly Moslem.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state
Examples
“Kurdish militants fighting for autonomy in Kurd-dominated south-eastern Turkey have fought the Turkish state for more than 25 years – a campaign that has cost the lives of over 30,000 people.”
“If it breaks out and the country partitions into three elements Shiite, Sunni & Kurd, is that such a bad thing?”
“The two leading contenders for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have very distinct positions but it has been a rare occasion when the word Kurd has ever been spoken by them.”
“What better way to get the name Kurd out in the world?”
“For a Turkish leader like Erdogan, even saying the word Kurd was a break with the past,”
“If a Kurd was abused in an Arab country, or in the name of Arabs (forced to convert his/her ethnicity), whose responsibility is it to stand up for this injustice?”
Global Voices in English » Kurdistance: Launching the Arab Association for Kurdish Rights
“A fair resolution of the "disputed territories" issue would recognize that these lands are neither exclusively "Kurd" nor "Arab," but rather a multi-cultural patchwork that should be at the core of Iraqi identity, as it once was.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Bouckaert: Iraq: Deadly Reminders of Unfinished Business
“The first will examine what role the United States can play in helping facilitate political reconciliation on the tough outstanding issues such as Kurd-Arab tensions in the disputed territories, the division of oil revenues and the question of the displaced.”
Ilan Goldenberg: What Obama's Iraq Speech Means for American Foreign Policy
“Instead of ending with the words, "How happy is he who calls himself a Turk," the boy substituted "Kurd" for "Turk.”
“The official policy of the coup era was that there was no such people as the Kurds - those who defined themselves as such were merely "mountain Turks" according to the nationalist logic, which also suspended reality in arguing that the word "Kurd" was simply the onomatopoeia of the crunching sound one makes when walking in the snow.”
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