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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the Kurds or their language or culture.
  • noun Any of a group of Iranian languages spoken by the Kurds.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Kurdistan or the Kurds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Kurds, the Kurdish language, or Kurdistan.
  • proper noun The language of the Kurds; it is related to Farsi, the modern Iranian language.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Language of Kurdistan (In the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to Kurdistan or the Kurds or their language and culture
  • noun an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia

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Examples

  • Turkey's army chief says his troops are ready to attack what he calls Kurdish terrorist camps in northern Iraq.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2007 2007

  • Turkey's army chief says his troops are ready to attack what he calls Kurdish terrorist camps in northern Iraq.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2007 2007

  • Turkey coddles Islamic fascism and terrorism while claiming the high road in attacking what it calls Kurdish terrorism - the Kurds simply want the Turkish oppression of their language, culture and the occupation of the country to end.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • A deal between Turkey for its recent "anti-Israeli" stance but said Tel Aviv would continue efforts to prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to raise

    WN.com - Articles related to The tourism Industry turns to Turkey for this year's EMITT Exhibition 2010

  • The Condom vs. AIDS War: DOH taken to task UN forensics experts have to identify ... media, his legal counsel said Friday, as the ruling junta continues its prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to raise court on Wednesday sentenced a US citizen to three years in prison for fraud and forgery, his lawyer told AFP, despite calls by 50 US lawmakers for

    WN.com - Articles related to Bad Decade for the Media 2010

  • Likewise, the two main Kurdish parties, kingmakers of any new government, have been repeatedly criticised by Amnesty International for the prisons they run in northern Iraq.

    Iraq war logs: experts' views Toby Dodge 2010

  • In 2002, the Bush administration had what it believed to be reliable intelligence that Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Sunni extremist group, was producing chemical weapons at Khurmal in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

    Wonk Room » In 2002, Bush Neglected Actual WMD Threat In Order Not To ‘Derail’ Iraq War 2009

  • Radio and Television programmes in Kurdish are beginning and further development is planned.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

  • The argument for keeping a longtime presence in Kurdish Iraq is tremendously stronger than the argument for us trying to stay anywhere else. roger Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The War’s End 2007

  • Students they met with were so intrigued by the potential of tools like Twitter, Google, and Wordpress in Arabic, Kurdish, and English for both developing a stronger civil society and to scaring up some work that the delegation, says Liebman, is discussing throwing together a simple hub with a handy URL that points to the free and cheap hosted web services that might quickly help them along their way.

    What I Did on My Iraqi Vacation Scola, Nancy 2009

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