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Meanings of Kurbash:

noun

A whip, typically of hippopotamus hide, formerly used as an instrument of punishment in turkey and egypt.

Usage examples:

Did the museum fear outraged slavers descending on it with kurbashes?

Meanings of Kurbashes:

noun

A whip, typically of hippopotamus hide, formerly used as an instrument of punishment in turkey and egypt.

Usage examples:

Did the museum fear outraged slavers descending on it with kurbashes?

Meanings of Kurchatovium:

noun

A name proposed in the soviet union for the artificial radioactive element of atomic number 104, now called rutherfordium.

Usage examples:

For example, the russian team suggested the name of kurchatovium for element 104, in honor of the g…

Meanings of Kurd:

noun

A member of a mainly islamic people living in parts of eastern turkey, northern iraq, western iran, and eastern syria.

Usage examples:

Asked to choose between the kurds and the turks we might well become confused.

Meanings of Kurdish:

adjective

Relating to the kurds or their language.

Usage examples:

There were no demands by the kurdish parties or sistani that he be captured immediately.

noun

The iranian language of the kurds.

Usage examples:

It remains a kurdish stronghold with most people speaking kurdish as their first language.

Meanings of Kurdistan:

proper noun

An extensive region in the middle east south of the caucasus, the traditional home of the kurdish people.

noun

The region in western asia where the kurds live, between the mediterranean, the black sea, and the caspian sea

Meanings of Kurgan:

noun

A prehistoric burial mound of a type found in southern russia and ukraine.

adjective

Relating to the ancient kurgans.

Usage examples:

Early kurgan cave engravings

proper noun

A city in central russia, commercial centre for an agricultural region; population 324,100 (est. 2008).

Meanings of Kurgans:

noun

A prehistoric burial mound of a type found in southern russia and ukraine.

adjective

Relating to the ancient kurgans.

Usage examples:

Early kurgan cave engravings

proper noun

A city in central russia, commercial centre for an agricultural region; population 324,100 (est. 2008).

Meanings of Kuri:

noun

A dog, especially a mongrel.

Meanings of Kuroshio:

proper noun

A warm current in the pacific ocean that flows north-east past japan and towards alaska.

Meanings of Kurrajong:

noun

An australian plant which produces useful tough fibre.

Usage examples:

In addition, those strange looking boab trees, tall livistona palms, beautiful water lilies, colour…

Meanings of Kursaal:

noun

(in germany) a public building at a spa, in which entertainment is provided.

Meanings of Kurta:

noun

A loose collarless shirt of a type worn by people in south asia, usually with a salwar, churidars, or pyjama.

Usage examples:

At the other end of the bench sat a man in a kurta and shawl: he had a turban and a drooping white …

Meanings of Kurtas:

noun

A loose collarless shirt of a type worn by people in south asia, usually with a salwar, churidars, or pyjama.

Usage examples:

At the other end of the bench sat a man in a kurta and shawl: he had a turban and a drooping white …

Meanings of Kurtosis:

noun

The sharpness of the peak of a frequency-distribution curve.

Usage examples:

Skewness was not detected in these distributions, but kurtosis was in two of them.

Meanings of Kuru:

noun

A fatal disease of the brain occurring in some peoples in new guinea and thought to be caused by a virus-like agent such as a prion.

Usage examples:

Among humans, the disease kuru, found in the south pacific, was also shown to be transmissible.

Meanings of Kurus:

noun

A monetary unit of turkey, equal to one hundredth of a turkish lira.

Usage examples:

The new lira, or yeni turk lirasi in turkish, will be divided into 100 kurus, a unit that has been …

Meanings of Kusimanse:

noun

A small gregarious mongoose with a dark brown coat and a long mobile snout, native to west africa.

Usage examples:

Most of the information known about the cusimanse has been gathered from data of animals in captivi…

Meanings of Kusimansel:

noun

A small gregarious mongoose with a dark brown coat and a long mobile snout, native to west africa.

Usage examples:

Most of the information known about the cusimanse has been gathered from data of animals in captivi…

Meanings of Kusti:

noun

A cord worn round the waist by parsees, consisting of seventy-two threads to represent the chapters of one of the portions of the zend-avesta.

Usage examples:

The day is divided into four parts, all requiring ritual observances in which a special belt, or ku…

Meanings of Kutenai:

noun

A member of a north american people of the rocky mountains in british columbia, idaho, and montana.

adjective

Relating to the kutenai or their language.

Meanings of Kuwait:

proper noun

A country on the north-western coast of the persian gulf; population 3,900,000 (estimated 2015); official language, arabic; capital, kuwait city.

noun

A country in western asia

Meanings of Kv:

abbreviation

Kilovolt(s).

noun

1,000 volts.

Meanings of Kvass:

noun

(especially in russia) a fermented drink, low in alcohol, made from rye flour or bread with malt.

Usage examples:

The making of beer, black bread, and the alcoholic drink kvass were traditionally linked in russia.

Meanings of Kvetch:

noun

A person who complains a great deal.

Usage examples:

She emerges as something of a kvetch, constantly nagging rick

verb

Complain persistently.

Usage examples:

Jane's kvetching about her crummy existence