Kurdish
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- adjective
- /ˈkɜrdɪʃ/
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kurdo
- Supported by other government policies, it encourages permanent displacement of Kurdish populations and the destruction of Kurdish culture.
- Kurdish refugees
- Kurdish population
- Kurdish minority
So I couldn't fly out of the Kurdish region at this point.
- So I couldn't fly out of the Kurdish region at this point.
- And I was hanging out with the Kurdish YPG and YPJ militia in Syria.
- So we actually trained up the initial crop of commandos with heavy Kurdish leadership.
- And these were Kurdish forces, a lot of them there, you know, different factions of the Kurdish.
- Then maybe you can go in a civil war in the Iraq to get an own Kurdish state.
- I see that then Trump praised our Kurdish allies for retreating to an area that our enemies told us it was OK.
- Once the borders were put in place, all mention of Kurdish element is totally silenced.
- There's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan under Jalal Talabani and the Kurdish Democratic Party under under.
Examples
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Iraqi literature written in other languages such as Kurdish and Turkmen is not included in this survey.
Academic text (1997) -
The relationship between the Kurdish people and the rest of Iraq is normal.
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Some individuals have been quite willing to join with the Kurdish group, others have not.
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It's a common Kurdish name.
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So I couldn't fly out of the Kurdish region at this point.
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The table also shows the distribution of the Kurdish and Shi'a communities among several Middle Eastern countries.
Academic text (2000) -
The US is backing the the Kurdish SDF.
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But it also has important and potentially destructive ramifications for the Kurdish way of life.
Academic text (2013) -
The evolving relationship between Kurdish women, the state, and Turkish feminists was complicated.
Academic text (2000) -
The Kurdish culture is rich in traditions and has a unique history that influences its art and music.
Compounds
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A language spoken by Kurdish people in parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
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A Kurdish Sunni armed group that uses violence and wants an Islamic state under sharia
Surface Forms
Morphology
Kurdish = Kurd (transparent) = Kurd + ish
The adjective is directly formed from the ethnic/proper name 'Kurd' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ish' meaning 'relating to'.
Etymology
Kurdish comes from Kurd, the name of the people, plus the ending -ish that means 'related to' or 'from', like in English or Spanish. So Kurdish describes something that is 'from' the Kurds, their land, language, or culture.