A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.

plural of Kurd

Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).

An autonomous region of northern and northeastern Iraq lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region. / A province in northwestern Iran lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.

A kind of shaman among Aboriginal Australians whose job it was to avenge a death, who was supposed to have worn slippers made from the feathers of emus.

An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer. / An expedition taken to heal or avenge someone afflicted by evil sorcery. / A man chosen to go on such an expedition.

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Azerbaijan SSR from 1923 to 1929.

(colloquial) the Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast.

Pertaining to Kurdistan; Kurdish.