Kurd/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Kurd.

A non-Arab ethnic and religious group, speaking Persian dialects, primarily of Sunni Muslims, concentrated in Iraq but with traditional territory in a Greater Kurdistan extending into Iran and Turkey; Iraqi Kurdistan is semi-autonomous within the State of Iraq