KURD

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• KURD (noun)
  The noun KURD has 1 sense:

1. a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state

  Familiarity information: KURD used as a noun is very rare.

• KURD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Kurd" is a kind of...):

ethnic group; ethnos (people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture)

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Kurd"):

peshmerga (a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state)

Holonyms ("Kurd" is a part of...):

Kurdistan (an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus)