mankurt
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Russian манкурт (mankurt). Coined by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, in which people are turned into docile servants (mankurts) by exposing camel skin wrapped around their heads to the heat of the sun; the skins tighten as they dry, causing brain damage, such that the mankurts no longer recognize their name, family, or tribe—"a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mankurt (plural mankurts)
- (derogatory, uncommon) A person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry, especially due to being affected by a dominant culture.
Translations
[edit]An individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian манку́рт (mankúrt).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mankurt m pers
- mankurt (individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his or her ancestry)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mankurt
singular | plural | |
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nominative | mankurt | mankurci/mankurty (deprecative) |
genitive | mankurta | mankurtów |
dative | mankurtowi | mankurtom |
accusative | mankurta | mankurtów |
instrumental | mankurtem | mankurtami |
locative | mankurcie | mankurtach |
vocative | mankurcie | mankurci |
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- Rhymes:Polish/aŋkurt
- Rhymes:Polish/aŋkurt/2 syllables
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