курут

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *qūrut / *qūrt (“cheese in round balls”), from Proto-Turkic *kūrï- (“dry”).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (qurut, “qurut”); Tatar корт (qort), Kazakh құрт (qūrt), Kyrgyz курут (kurut), Uzbek qurt, Turkmen gurt, Khakas хурут (xurut), Tuvan курут (kurut, “dried cheese”).

Noun

курут • (kurut)

1. cheese

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “курут”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN