different between vulpine vs kurd

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vulp?nus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulp?s, earlier volp?s (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl(o)p- (“fox”). Cognate with Welsh llywarn (“fox”), Ancient Greek ?????? (al?p?x), Armenian ?????? (a?u?s), Albanian dhelpër, Lithuanian vilpiš?s (“wildcat”), Sanskrit ????? (lop??a, “jackal, fox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?lpa?n/

Adjective

vulpine (comparative more vulpine, superlative most vulpine)

1. Pertaining to a fox.
2. Having the characteristics of a fox; foxlike; cunning.

Translations

Noun

vulpine (plural vulpines)

1. Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf.
   • 1980, Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf, unnumbered page,

     The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.

2. A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.

See also

• canine
• lupine
• Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae)

Anagrams

• liven up

French

Adjective

vulpine

1. feminine singular of vulpin

Latin

Adjective

vulp?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of vulp?nus

Catalan

Etymology

From the name in Kurdish, but of unknown ultimate meaning. More at Kurds.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ku?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kurt/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: curt

Adjective

kurd (feminine kurda, masculine plural kurds, feminine plural kurdes)

1. Kurdish

Noun

kurd m (plural kurds, feminine kurda)

1. Kurd

kurd m (uncountable)

1. Kurdish

Related terms

• Kurdistan

Further reading

• “kurd” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kurd]
• Hyphenation: kurd
• Rhymes: -urd

Adjective

kurd (not comparable)

1. Kurdish

Declension

Noun

kurd (countable and uncountable, plural kurdok)

1. Kurd (person)
2. Kurdish (language of Kurdistan)

Declension

Further reading

• kurd 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

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Of unclear origin. See Kurd for theories.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

kurd m or f

1. Kurd

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French kurde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurd/

Noun

kurd m (plural kurzi, feminine equivalent kurd?)

1. Kurd

Adjective

kurd m or n (feminine singular kurd?, masculine plural kurzi, feminine and neuter plural kurde)

1. Kurdish

Uzbek

Etymology

From the name in Kurdish, but of unknown ultimate meaning. More at Kurds.

Noun

kurd (plural kurdlar)

1. Kurd

Derived terms

• kurdcha