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curdo

Portuguese, noun/ˈkuʁ.du/

curdo is spelled C-U-R-D-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 33,746th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Curdo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Kurd (member of an ethnic group native to a region between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa do grupo étnico de origem ariana-iraniana que habita o Oriente Médio e reivindica o Curdistão como…”.

What does curdo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineKurd (member of an ethnic group native to a region between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria)

  2. 2

    masculineKurdish (an Indo-Iranian language spoken by the Kurds)

adjective

  1. 1

    Kurdish (relating to the Kurds)

  2. 2

    Kurdish (relating to the Kurdish language)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. relativo ao grupo étnico de origem ariana-iraniana que habita o Oriente Médio e reivindica o Curdistão como nação 2. relativo ao idioma falado por esse grupo étnico

noun: 1. pessoa do grupo étnico de origem ariana-iraniana que habita o Oriente Médio e reivindica o Curdistão como nação 2. idioma falado por esse grupo étnico

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of curdo

  • curdos plural
  • curda feminine
  • curdas feminine plural
  • kurdo alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce curdo?

  • Brazil /ˈkuʁ.du/
  • Brazil [ˈkuɦ.du]
  • /ˈkuɾ.du/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to curdo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is curdo in Portuguese?

curdo appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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