"mankurt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mankurts [plural]
Etymology: From Russian манкурт (mankurt). Coined by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, in which people are turned into docile servants (mankurts) by exposing camel skin wrapped around their heads to the heat of the sun; the skins tighten as they dry, causing brain damage, such that the mankurts no longer recognize their name, family, or tribe—"a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being". Etymology templates: {{der|en|ru|манкурт|}} Russian манкурт (mankurt) Head templates: {{en-noun}} mankurt (plural mankurts)
  1. (derogatory, uncommon) A person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry, especially due to being affected by a dominant culture. Wikipedia link: Chinghiz Aitmatov, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, mankurt Tags: derogatory, uncommon Translations (An individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry): մանկուրտ (mankurt) (Armenian), маңҡорт (mañqort) (Bashkir), მანქურთი (mankurti) (Georgian), мәңгүрт (mäñgürt) (Kazakh), mankurts [masculine] (Latvian), mankurtas [masculine] (Lithuanian), mankurt [masculine] (Polish), mancurt [masculine] (Romanian)

Inflected forms

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