kurta

English Wikipedia has an article on:

kurta

Wikipedia

• khurta
• kurti

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

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.

• → Polish: kurta

• “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.

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

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

kúrta m 

1. sharing
2. (mathematics) division

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

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

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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)‎, 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.

• mallonga

• longa

From Latin curta, feminine of curtus (“shortened”).^[1]

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

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkurta/

kurta

1. short

   Antonym: longa

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

kurta

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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

kurta

Wikipedia ^pl

• IPA^(key): /ˈkur.ta/

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• Rhymes: -urta
• Syllabification: kur‧ta

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

kurta f

1. Augmentative of kurtka

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

kurta f

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

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

From Hindi.

kurta f (plural kurtas)

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