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Kurdistan

Today it means: A cultural region in West Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Full definition →

Classical Persian کُرْدِسْتَان ← Kurdish

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Kurdish · borrowed from
Classical Persian · borrowed fromکُرْدِسْتَان
English todayKurdistan

Either from Classical Persian کُرْدِسْتَان (kurdistān) (whence modern Iranian Persian کُرْدِسْتان (kordestân)), or from a variety of Kurdish (see کوردستان / Kurdistan). Equivalent to Kurd + -istan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.