English

Alternative forms

• Curt

Proper noun

Kurt

1. A male given name borrowed from German, a contracted form of Konrad.

Anagrams

• Turk

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German Kurt.

Proper noun

Kurt

1. A male given name.

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 27 632 males with the given name Kurt have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Faroese

Proper noun

Kurt m

1. A male given name.

Usage notes

• son of Kurt: Kurtsson
• daughter of Kurt: Kurtsdóttir

Declension

German

Etymology

A medieval short form of Konrad.

Proper noun

Kurt

1. A male given name

Norwegian

Proper noun

Kurt

1. A male given name of German origin.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Curt

Etymology

From Middle Low German Kurt, a contraction of Konrad. First recorded in Sweden as Curt in 1639.

Proper noun

Kurt

1. A male given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 27 986 males with the given name Kurt living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Turkish

Etymology

From kurt ‎(“wolf”).

Proper noun

Kurt

1. A male given name

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• kurz, korz (Moselle Franconian)
• koot (Kölsch)

Adjective

kurt ‎(masculine kurte, feminine kurt, comparative kürter, superlative et kürzte or kürtste)

1. (Ripuarian, north-western Moselle Franconian) short; not long

   Och, fröhter hätte mer us jeschaamp, met su nem kurte Kleedche op de Stroß ze john!

   Aw, in my day we would have been ashamed to go outside in such a short dress!

Czech

Noun

kurt m

1. court (place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games)

Declension

Synonyms

• dvorec

Estonian

Etymology

Of Baltic origin. Compare Latvian kurls ‎(“deaf”) and Lithuanian kurtus, kurčias. Possibly a cognate to Finnish kuuro.

Adjective

kurt ‎(genitive kurdi, partitive kurti)

1. deaf

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

kurt n

1. chivalrous, courteous, well-mannered
2. modesty
3. (archaic) court

Derived terms

• með kurt og pí

Kurdish

Adjective

kurt

1. short

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *kur-, from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥-, *ker- ‎(“to cut”) (whence also cirst ‎(“to cut, to strike”), q.v.). Given that in ancient times fire was produced by striking (e.g., a flint against metal), it is possible that kurt uguni originally meant “to cut, strike fire.” It is also possible that the meaning of kurt was influenced by that of a homophonous Proto-Indo-European stem *ker ‎(“to burn, to heat”) (whence karst, q.v., and also German Herd, English hearth), which may ultimately be related to *ker- ‎(“to cut”). Cognates include Lithuanian kùrti ‎(“to make fire; to make, to build, to found; to create; to run”), Old Prussian kūra ‎(“he built”), Sanskrit करोति ‎(karṓti) (past tense कुरु ‎(kuru)), कृनोति ‎(kr̥nṓti, “to make, to prepare”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kūrt], IPA^(key): [kûrt]

Verb

kurt tr., 1st conj., pres. kuru, kur, kur, past kūru

1. to light, to ignite (to make something start burning or producing heat)

   kurt uguni, ugunskuru‎ ― to light a fire

   kurt krāsni, plīti‎ ― to light the oven, the stove

2. to heat (to burn fuel in a stove in order to create heat in a certain room, building, etc.)

   kurt pirti‎ ― to heat the bath, sauna

3. (figuratively) to encourage, to incite

   kurt naidu‎ ― to light, incite hatred

Conjugation

Usage notes

Level intonation is the standard intonation for the term kurt ‎(“to light, ignite”) according to Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca, pronunciation with a broken intonation is very common, however.

Synonyms

• dedzināt
• kurināt

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• kurināt
• kurties
• kurtuve

Related terms

• iekurs
• ugunskurs

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “kurt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic kurt, from Proto-Turkic *Kūrt. Compare Azeri qurd.

Noun

kurt ‎(definite accusative kurdu, plural kurtlar)

1. wolf
2. maggot

Declension

Synonyms

• (wolf): börü (dial.)

Related terms

• kurtçuk (minimisation)