different between kurta vs tunic

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)

English

Alternative forms

• tunick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tunique, from Latin tunica, possibly from Semitic; see also Aramaic [script needed] (kittuna), Hebrew ?????? (kuttoneth, “coat”); or from Etruscan. Existed in Old English as tunece; unknown if term was lost and then reborrowed later.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tju?n?k/, /tu?n?k/
• Rhymes: -u?n?k

Noun

tunic (plural tunics)

1. A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
2. (anatomy, botany) Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.
   • 2015, Charlie Nardozzi, New England Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year, Cool Springs Press (?ISBN), page 132:

     Select individual bulbs that are firm and have no noticeable blemishes on them. Don't worry about the papery covering or tunic. That may or may not be in place, […]

Translations

References

Anagrams

• cut in, cut-in, cutin, incut