kurta

See also: kurtā

English

A man wearing an Indian-style kurta

Alternative forms

• khurta
• kurti

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi कुरता (kurtā)/Urdu کرتا (kurtā), from Classical Persian کرته (kurta).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

kurta (plural kurtas)

1. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 44:

     Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.

Descendants

• → Polish: kurta

Translations

Indian shirt

• Arabic: قرطق
• Bengali: কুরতা (kurota)
• Dutch: kurta
• Finnish: kurta (fi)
• French: kurta (fr)
• German: Kurta
• Gujarati: ઝભ્ભો (gu) (jhabhbho)
• Hindi: कुरता (hi) m (kurtā), कुर्ता (hi) m (kurtā)
• Hungarian: kurtá
• Indonesian: kurta
• Italian: kurta (it)
• Marathi: कुरता m (kurtā)
• Nepali: कुर्ता (hi) (kurtā)
• Norwegian: kurta
• Polish: kurta (pl)
• Portuguese: kurta f
• Punjabi: ਕੁੜਤਾ m (kuṛtā)
• Russian: курта (ru) f (kurta)
• Spanish: kurta
• Swedish: kurta (sv)
• Telugu: కుర్తా (te) (kurtā)
• Turkish: kurta (tr)
• Urdu: کرتا m (kurtā)

References

• “kurta”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “kurta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “kurta”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “kurta” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkurta/ [ˈkʊɾtʌ]
• Hyphenation: kur‧ta

Noun

kúrta m 

1. sharing
2. (mathematics) division

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

kurta (accusative singular kurtan, plural kurtaj, accusative plural kurtajn)

1. (chiefly poetic) short
   • 2005, Federico Gobbo, “May European Union adopt a Lingua Franca?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 March 2012:

     La febla olda damo lante distiĝas per kurtaj paŝoj.

     The old weak Lady slowly took short steps away.

Synonyms

• mallonga

Antonyms

• longa

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin curta, feminine of curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkurtɒ]
• Hyphenation: kur‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Adjective

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	kurta	kurták
accusative	kurtát	kurtákat
dative	kurtának	kurtáknak
instrumental	kurtával	kurtákkal
causal-final	kurtáért	kurtákért
translative	kurtává	kurtákká
terminative	kurtáig	kurtákig
essive-formal	kurtaként	kurtákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	kurtában	kurtákban
superessive	kurtán	kurtákon
adessive	kurtánál	kurtáknál
illative	kurtába	kurtákba
sublative	kurtára	kurtákra
allative	kurtához	kurtákhoz
elative	kurtából	kurtákból
delative	kurtáról	kurtákról
ablative	kurtától	kurtáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	kurtáé	kurtáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	kurtáéi	kurtákéi

Derived terms

• kurtaság
• kurtácska
• kurtán
• kurtít

 

Further reading

• kurta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French court, German kurz, Italian corto, Spanish corto. Decision no. 224, Progreso IV.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkurta/

Adjective

kurta

1. short

   Antonym: longa

Derived terms

• kurte (“in short, briefly”)
• kurtigar (“to shorten”)
• plukurtigar (“to shorten, make (something) shorter”)
• kurteskar (“to contract, shrink”)

Latvian

Participle

kurta

1. inflection of kurts:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkur.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -urta
• Syllabification: kur‧ta

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from Romanian scurtă or Hungarian kurta, from Latin curta.

Noun

kurta f

1. Augmentative of kurtka

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English kurta, from Hindi कुरता (kurtā).

Noun

kurta f

1. kurta (loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt)

Declension

Declension of kurta

	singular	plural
nominative	kurta	kurty
genitive	kurty	kurt
dative	kurcie	kurtom
accusative	kurtę	kurty
instrumental	kurtą	kurtami
locative	kurcie	kurtach
vocative	kurto	kurty

Further reading

• kurta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kurta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Hindi.

Noun

kurta f (plural kurtas)

1. kurta (a knee-length shirt used in southeast Asia)