"kurta" meaning in English

See kurta in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-kurta.wav Forms: kurtas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कुरता (kurtā)/Urdu کرتا (kurtā), from Classical Persian کرته (kurta). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hi|कुरता}} Hindi कुरता (kurtā), {{bor|en|ur|کرتا|tr=kurtā}} Urdu کرتا (kurtā), {{der|en|fa-cls|کرته|tr=kurta}} Classical Persian کرته (kurta) Head templates: {{en-noun}} 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. Wikipedia link: kurta Categories (topical): Clothing Synonyms: khurta, kurti Translations (Indian shirt): قرطق (Arabic), কুরতা (kurota) (Bengali), kurta (Dutch), kurta (Finnish), kurta (French), Kurta (German), ઝભ્ભો (jhabhbho) (Gujarati), कुरता (kurtā) [masculine] (Hindi), कुर्ता (kurtā) [masculine] (Hindi), kurtá (Hungarian), kurta (Indonesian), kurta (Italian), कुरता (kurtā) [masculine] (Marathi), कुर्ता (kurtā) (Nepali), kurta (Norwegian), kurta (Polish), kurta [feminine] (Portuguese), ਕੁੜਤਾ (kuṛtā) [masculine] (Punjabi), курта (kurta) [feminine] (Russian), kurta (Spanish), kurta (Swedish), కుర్తా (kurtā) (Telugu), kurta (Turkish), کرتا (kurtā) [masculine] (Urdu)

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Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.