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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KURGAN

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PRONUNCIATION OF KURGAN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KURGAN

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Kurgan is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KURGAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kurgan

Kurgan is the Turkic term for a tumulus. These are mounds of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Originating with its use in Soviet archaeology, the word is now widely used for tumuli in the context of Eastern European and Central Asian archaeology. The word kurgan ‘funerary mound’, is, as well as Central Asia and Anatolia used in Russia and Ukraine, but throughout South-Eastern Europe, from Tatar, Tat., Osm., Kum. kurgan, Old Turkic kurgan "fortification", Kirg. and Jagat. korgan, Karakirg. korgon, all from Turkotat. kurgamak "fortify", kurmak "erect". The distribution of such tumuli in Eastern Europe corresponds closely to the area of the Pit Grave or Kurgan culture in South-Eastern Europe. Kurgans were built in the Eneolithic, Bronze, Iron, Antiquity and Middle Ages, with old traditions still active in Southern Siberia and Central Asia. Kurgan cultures are divided archeologically into different sub-cultures, such as Timber Grave, Pit Grave, Scythian, Sarmatian, Hunnish and Kuman-Kipchak. A plethora of placenames that include the word "kurgan" appear from Lake Baikal to the Black Sea.

Definition of Kurgan in the English dictionary

The definition of Kurgan in the dictionary is a city in W Russia, on the Tobol River: industrial centre for an agricultural region. Pop: 344 000.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KURGAN

Kura
kurbash
kurchatovium
Kurd
kurdaitcha
kurdaitcha shoes
Kurdestan
Kurdish
Kurdistan
Kure
kurfuffle
kuri
Kuril Islands
Kurile Islands
Kurland
Kurosawa
Kuroshio
kurrajong
kursaal
Kursk

WORDS THAT END LIKE KURGAN

argan
donor organ
durgan
electric organ
electronic organ
end organ
Glamorgan
great organ
Hammond organ
Mid Glamorgan
Morgan
mouth organ
organ
piano organ
pipe organ
sense organ
sex organ
South Glamorgan
Vale of Glamorgan
West Glamorgan

Synonyms and antonyms of Kurgan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Kurgan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KURGAN

Find out the translation of Kurgan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Kurgan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Kurgan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

库尔干
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Kurgan
570 millions of speakers

English

Kurgan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Kurgan
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كورغان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Курган
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Kurgan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Kurgan
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Kurgan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurgan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kurgan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クルガン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쿠 르간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kurgan
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Kurgan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Kurgan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुर्गन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kurgan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Kurgan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kurgan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Курган
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Kurgan
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κουργκάν
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Kurgan
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Kurgan
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Kurgan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Kurgan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KURGAN»

The term «Kurgan» is regularly used and occupies the 59.461 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KURGAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Kurgan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KURGAN»

Discover the use of Kurgan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Kurgan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Kurgan
This doubt, perhaps Coles's most modern trait, runs through and enriches all of "Kurgan" (as it did his great book-length poem "Little Bird") and places his poetry among the very best being written in English.'
Don Coles, 2000
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Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics
The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed fromouter space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and expressfundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of ...
Laura Kurgan, 2013
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The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: ...
On the Origins of North Indo-EuropeansThe Indo-Europeans ?
Marija Gimbutas, Miriam Robbins Dexter, Karlene Jones-Bley, 1997
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Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
with the works of the late Marija Gimbutas and supporters of her Kurgan solution to the IE homeland problem and, therefore, the term "Kurgan Tradition" is often used synonymously with the earliest Indo-Europeans. In the system employed ...
J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, 1997
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Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History: New ...
Table 4 | continued Temrta-I kurgan 2, grave 3 child 10 –17.5 +16.2 Baga-Burul kurgan 5, grave 6 male 30–35 –18.7 +12.6 Mandjikiny-2 kurgan 37, grave 3 male 15–16 –16.5 +16.5 Mandjikiny-2 kurgan 42, grave 1 female 40–45 –17.1 +17.2 ...
Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger, Wolfram Schier, 2012
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The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area: Historical ...
... 25-urochishche Nosaki; 26-Nikopolskoe; 27-Voloshskoe; 28-SoIokha; 29- Strashna- ya Mogila; 30-Lisaya Mogila; 31-Kapulovka; 32-Kirovo; 33- Shakhty 22 ; 34-group BOF; 35-Kut; 36-Kichkas; 37-Malaya Lepetikha; 38-Deev kurgan; ...
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, 1998
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Articles on Barrows, Including: Pazyryk Burials, Kurgan, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia: ...
Identified season of Yamnaya, North-Caucasus, Early Catacomb, Catacomb and mixed Yamanaya-Catacomb graves4 old Kurgan/grave Sex/age Calendar time intervals, cal BC Season Zunda-Tolga-1 Yamnaya culture Kurgan 3, mound ...
E. Marian Scott, Andrey Yu Alekseev, Ganna I. Zaitseva, 2006
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Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and ...
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE HYPOTHESIS Gimbutas first identified the Indo- European people with what she coined the 'Kurgan' archaeological culture in a 1956 monograph, The Prehistory of Eastern Europe, Part I. The term 'Kurgan' is ...
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs, 2003
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Archaeology and Language: Correlating archaeological and ...
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE HYPOTHESIS Gimbutas first identified the Indo- European people with what she coined the 'Kurgan' archaeological culture in a 1956 monograph, The Prehistory of Eastern Europe, Part I. The term 'Kurgan' is ...
R. Blench, Matthew Spriggs, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KURGAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Kurgan is used in the context of the following news items.
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Reuters: Russia's Putin orders formation of new military reserve force
A picture taken on May 23, 2015 shows Russian military vehicles on a freight train in the Russian southern town of Matveev Kurgan in the ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
2
Lopez takes on Diaz in LA Fight Club main event August 6
In 2012, he qualified to attend the Veles Cup in Kurgan, Russia and took the gold medal in his weight class. This opportunity led the amateur ... «thaboxingvoice, Jul 15»
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Photos of the Day: July 16, 2015
at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex in Volgograd, Russia, July 15, 2015. The statue is part of memorial complex that commemorates the ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
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Pundit Wars: Is Mother Canada truly hideous or are we suffering …
Some, like the famous super-statue on the Mamayev Kurgan in Stalingrad and her cousin in Kiev, express the spirit of resistance to tyranny. «National Post, Jul 15»
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Sculpting teams all washed up in beach sand
Hannah Kurgan, 13, and her sisters Aliceson Kurgan, 9 and Melissa Kurgan, 11, of Lake Station, had never built a sand sculpture at the contest ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
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Russia scraps 90% of chemical weapons stock
... stock had been scrapped by Leonidovka in the Penza region, Maradykovsky in the Kirov region and Shchuchye in the Kurgan region. «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Jul 15»
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Rostelecom expands network in Kurgan and Perm
Russian national operator Rostelecom has expanded the coverage of its fibre network in the Kurgan region. Around 3,500 households were ... «Telecompaper, Jul 15»
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Eleven Ukrainian citizens injured in road traffic accident in Rostov …
... on a freight train in the Russian southern town of Matveev Kurgan in the Rostov region, some 20 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border. «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
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Russia fears spread of AI from Siberia
"There is a particular high risk of of the virus spreading to Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Kurgan Oblasts, the Altai Territory and the northern part of ... «WorldPoultry.net, Jul 15»
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Fulcher says yes to success
All-Purpose Player Peyton Kurgan, Sr., Beech. All-Purpose Player Addie Morris, Jr., Westmoreland. Pitcher Carley Carlisle, Jr., Hendersonville. «The Tennessean, Jul 15»

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