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kuri

kuri

See also: kūri, kurī, and kūrī

English

Noun

kuri

  1. The kitchen of a Zen monastery.

Darkinjung

Noun

kuri

  1. man

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowing from French courir and Latin currō (run).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuri/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ri

Verb

kuri (present kuras, past kuris, future kuros, conditional kurus, volitive kuru)

  1. (intransitive) to run
    • 1908, Adolf Krafft (translator), Robinsono Kruso, Part IV.
      Kriegante, la viroj kuris tien kaj reen.
      Shouting, the men ran back and forth.

Conjugation

Derived terms


Estonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish kurja.

Adjective

kuri (genitive kurja, partitive kurja)

  1. evil
  2. sinister

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms


Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkuri]
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ri

Noun

kuri

  1. discipline (enforced compliance or control)
  2. discipline (systematic method of obtaining obedience)
  3. discipline (state of order based on submission to authority)
  4. (law) short for kuritushuone (type of prison sentence)

Declension

Inflection of kuri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative kuri kurit
genitive kurin kurien
partitive kuria kureja
illative kuriin kureihin
singular plural
nominative kuri kurit
accusative nom. kuri kurit
gen. kurin
genitive kurin kurien
partitive kuria kureja
inessive kurissa kureissa
elative kurista kureista
illative kuriin kureihin
adessive kurilla kureilla
ablative kurilta kureilta
allative kurille kureille
essive kurina kureina
translative kuriksi kureiksi
instructive kurein
abessive kuritta kureitta
comitative kureineen

Derived terms

  • kurittomuus
  • kuritus
  • kuritushuone
  • pitää kurissa
  • toverikuri

Anagrams


Japanese

Romanization

kuri

  1. rōmaji reading of くり

Ngan'gityemerri

Noun

kuri

  1. (Ngan'gikurunggurr) water

Synonyms

  • kuru (Ngan'gimerri)

References

  • Darrell T. Tryon, An introduction to Maranungku (Northern Australia) (1970) (quoted online in ASJP)

Ngarrindjeri

A kuri or river

Noun

kuri

  1. neck
  2. river
  3. voice

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali

Numeral

kuri

  1. (cardinal) twenty