Kurdistan

Either from Northern Kurdish Kurdistan or from Classical Persian کُرْدِسْتَان (kurdistān), equivalent to Kurd +‎ -i- +‎ -stan.

Kurdistan

1. A region in the Middle East inhabited mostly by the Kurds. It encompasses parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
   1. An autonomous region of northern and northeastern Iraq lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.
   2. A province in northwestern Iran lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.

Although parts of northeastern Iran and central-western Turkey also have a majority-Kurdish population, these areas are generally not considered to be part of Kurdistan, the term being reserved for the main contiguous Kurdish-majority area where Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria meet.

• Kurdish
• Kurd

• (provinces of Iran) Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Qazvin, Qom, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Yazd, Zanjan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Iran)}

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• Hyphenation: Kur‧dis‧tan
• Rhymes: -istan

Kurdistan n (proper noun, genitive Kurdistans or (optionally with an article) Kurdistan)

1. Kurdistan (region in the Middle East encompassing most Kurdish speakers, in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria)

• “Kurdistan” in Duden online

kurd (“Kurdish”) +‎ -istan (“land of”)

• IPA^(key): /kʰʊɾdɪˈstɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

K’urdistan f (Arabic spelling کوردستان)

1. Kurdistan (a region of the Middle East).
2. (by extension) A province of Iran

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “K’urdistan”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 427

Kurdistan

1. Kurdistan

• kurder
• kurdisk

Kurdistan

1. Kurdistan

• kurdar
• kurdisk

• IPA^(key): /kûrdistan/
• Hyphenation: Kur‧di‧stan

Kȕrdistan m (Cyrillic spelling Ку̏рдистан)

1. Kurdistan

Kurdistan n (genitive Kurdistans)

1. Kurdistan