kurdisks

Latvian

Etymology

From kurds (“Kurd”) +‎ -isks.

Adjective

kurdisks (kurdiskais comparative, kurdiskāks superlative, viskurdiskākais adverb, kurdiski)

  1. Kurdish (relating to the Kurdish language; relating to Kurds)
    ielās, neskaitot turku valodu, dzirdējām ļaudis runājam arābiski, kurdiski un asīriski ― on the streets, besides Turkish, we saw people speaking Arabic, Kurdish, and Assyrian

Usage notes

English “Kurdish” as an attributive adjective usually correponds in Latvian to kurdu, the genitive plural form of kurds. The adjective kurdisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Kurdish”), or in its adverbial form kurdiski.

Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of kurdisks
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)		 singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) kurdisks kurdiski kurdiska kurdiskas
accusative (akuzatīvs) kurdisku kurdiskus kurdisku kurdiskas
genitive (ģenitīvs) kurdiska kurdisku kurdiskas kurdisku
dative (datīvs) kurdiskam kurdiskiem kurdiskai kurdiskām
instrumental (instrumentālis) kurdisku kurdiskiem kurdisku kurdiskām
locative (lokatīvs) kurdiskā kurdiskos kurdiskā kurdiskās
vocative (vokatīvs) — — — —
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