Kurd

plural Kurds

1. 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.

   I took classes with a Kurd.

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   Kurds live in several countries.

   Curdi, B[arbarous]. a people which many think to be the Parthians, A[uncient]. But we cannot possiblie thinke them to be so. wherein we agree with Castaldo.

   1595, Abraham Hartwell, The History of the Warres between the Turkes and the Persians, translation of Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani by Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi

   Mehemet took her for a man and said, “Good father, I am a Kurd: my story is very curious”

   1865, Charles Wells, Mehemet, the Kurd, and Other Tales, from Eastern Sources, page 16

   After defeating IS in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the group's members.

   2018 May 8, Sarah El Deeb, “In a new justice system, Kurds put IS on trial eyeing reconciliation”, in Sydney Morning Herald