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A man wearing an Indian-style kurta

• 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

Indian shirt

• Arabic: قرطق

• Bengali: কুরতা (kurota)

• Dutch: kurta

• Finnish: kurta (fi)

• French: kurta (fr)

• German: Kurta (de)

• Gujarati: ઝભ્ભો (gu) (jhabhbho)

• Hindi: कुरता (hi) m (kurtā), कुर्ता (hi) m (kurtā)

• Hungarian: kurtá

• Indonesian: kurta

• Italian: kurta (it)

• Marathi: कुरता m (kurtā)

• Nepali: कुर्ता (ne) (kurtā)

• Norwegian: kurta

• Polish: kurta (pl)

• Portuguese: kurta f

• Punjabi: ਕੁੜਤਾ m (kuṛtā)

• Russian: курта (ru) f (kurta)

• Spanish: kurta

• Swedish: kurta (sv)

• Telugu: కుర్తా (te) (kurtā)

• Turkish: kurta (tr)

• Urdu: کرتا m (kurtā)

• “kurta”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• “kurta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• “kurta”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

• “kurta”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

• IPA(key): /ˈkurta/ [ˈkʊɾtʌ]

• 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)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

• IPA(key): /ˈkurta/
• Rhymes: -urta
• Syllabification: kur‧ta

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)‎[2], archived from the original on 4 March 2012:

• mallonga
• longa
• “kurta”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “kurta”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

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

• IPA(key): [ˈkurtɒ]
• Hyphenation: kur‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

• kurtaság
• kurtácska
• kurtán
• kurtít

1. ^ kurta in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

• kurta in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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

• IPA(key): /ˈkur.ta/
• 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[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “kurta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)

From Hindi.

kurta f (plural kurtas)

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