different between collarless vs kurta

English

Etymology

collar +? -less

Adjective

collarless (not comparable)

1. Of a garment, having no collar.
   • 1963, "The New Madness" in Time, 15 November, 1963, [1]

     Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them.

   • 2010, "Yemen's problems evident at the border," The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 January, 2010, [2]

     He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis.

2. (obsolete) Of a man, not wearing a detachable collar.
   • 1918, Sinclair Lewis, "Afterglow" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, 1962, p. 81,

     The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […]
3. Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.
   • 1963, François Mauriac, What I Believe, translated by Wallace Fowlie, New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., Chapter IX, p. 118,

     I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog.

   • 1999, Barbara Smuts in J. M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, Princeton University Press, p. 115,

     I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history.

Anagrams

• solar cells

English

Alternative forms

• khurta

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ????? (kurt?)/Urdu ????? (kurt?), from Persian ????? (korte).

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.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 44:

     Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.

Translations

References

• “kurta”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “kurta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “kurta” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “kurta” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.

Anagrams

• Kartu, Kraut, kraut

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?t?/

Noun

kúrta m 

1. sharing
2. (mathematics) division

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Ido kurta.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kurta (accusative singular kurtan, plural kurtaj, accusative plural kurtajn)

1. (chiefly poetic) short

Synonyms

• mallonga

Antonyms

• longa

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin curta, feminine of curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kurt?]
• Hyphenation: kur?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Adjective

kurta (comparative kurtább, superlative legkurtább)

1. short, brief, curt

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• kurta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French court, German kurz, Italian corto, Spanish corto. Decision no. 224, Progreso IV.

Adjective

kurta

1. short

Antonyms

• longa

Derived terms

• kurteskar (“to shorten”)

References

Latvian

Participle

kurta

1. genitive singular masculine form of kurts
2. nominative singular feminine form of kurts

Portuguese

Etymology

From Hindi

Noun

kurta f (plural kurtas)

1. kurta (a knee-length shirt used in southeast Asia)