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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, the same root of κείρω (keírō, “to cut, shear, crop”) and κορμός (kormós, “trunk of a tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuː.rǎː/ → /kuˈra/ → /kuˈra/
Noun
κουρᾱ́ • (kourā́) f (genitive κουρᾶς); first declension
- cropping of the hair
- (in general) cropping, lopping, shearing of sheep
- lock of hair
- wool shorn, fleece
- (in the plural) slips of wood
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κουρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κουρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κουρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Cappadocian Greek
Etymology
From Old Armenian քուրայ (kʻuray, “melting pot, furnace”).
Noun
κουρά (kourá)
- iron mine
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “քուրայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Karolídis, Pávlos (1885) Γλωσσάριον συγκριτικόν ελληνοκαππαδοκικών λέξεων (in Greek), Smyrna: O Týpos, page 89
- Karolídis, Pávlos (1885) Γλωσσάριον συγκριτικόν ελληνοκαππαδοκικών λέξεων (in Greek), Smyrna: O Týpos, page 179
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κουρά (kourá).
Noun
κουρά • (kourá) f
- (scholarly): haircutting (work done by barber or shearer)
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