Etymology

kurus

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Today it means: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Turkish lira. Full definition →

Turkish kuruş ← German Groschen
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The story

  1. German · derived fromGroschen
  2. Turkish · borrowed fromkuruş
  3. English todaykurus

Borrowed from Turkish kuruş, from German Groschen. Doublet of grosz.

Words from the same roots

GermanGroschen all →

groschen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.