kurd

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Kurd
    n 1: a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in
         Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Kurd \Kurd\, prop. n.
   A member of a people who inhabit a mountainous region of
   Western Asia, sometimes referred to as Kurdistan, spread over
   an area including adjoining parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq,
   Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Syria. The people of this region
   speak Kurdish and are mostly Moslem. [Written also {Koord}.]
   [1913 Webster +PJC]