کرد

• IPA^(key): /kɤrd/, /kɘrd/

کرد (kërd)

1. shepherd

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwrt /kurd/), ultimately of unknown origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerdʰ- (“herd”). More at Kurds.

کرد • (kord) (plural کردان‎ (kordân) or اکراد‎ (akrâd))

1. (obsolete) nomad
   • 1224-1228, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Mu’jam ul-Buldān (Persian translation)

     ‏گروهی از اکراد در کوههای میان اصفهان و خوزستان و این نواحی بدیشان شناخته آید و بلاد لر خوانند و هم لرستان و لور گویند.‎‎

     goruh-i az akrâd dar kuh-hâ-ye muyân-e esfehân o xuzestân, o in navâhi bedišân šenâxte âyad o ham lorestân o ham lur guyand.

     Lurs are a group of nomads who live in between Isfahan and Khuzestan and these territories are known to be theirs and they are called the Lur people and they are also called “Luristan” and “Lur”.

Apparently identical to the above word for a “herder”.

کرد • (kord) (plural کردان‎ (kordân) or کردها‎ (kord-hâ))

1. Kurd

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

کرد • (kard)

1. past stem of کردن‎ (kardan)

• “کرد”, in Langenscheidt Universal-Wörterbuch Persisch, München: Langenscheidt, 2002, →ISBN