mankurt

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English

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Etymology

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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".

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Noun

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mankurt (plural mankurts)

  1. (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.

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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian манку́рт (mankúrt).

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Noun

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mankurt m pers

  1. mankurt (individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his or her ancestry)

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