kuri

See also: kūri, kurī, and kūrī

English

Etymology

Japanese 庫裏

Noun

kuri

  1. The kitchen of a Zen monastery.

Darkinjung

Noun

kuri

  1. man

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French courir and Latin currō (“run”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkuri/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ri
  • Rhymes: -uri
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Verb

kuri (present kuras, past kuris, future kuros, conditional kurus, volitive kuru)

  1. (intransitive) to run
    • 1908, Adolf Krafft (translator), Robinsono Kruso, Part IV.
      Kriegante, la viroj kuris tien kaj reen.
      Shouting, the men ran back and forth.

Conjugation
Conjugation of kuri
present past future
singular plural singular plural singular plural
tense kuras kuris kuros
active participle kuranta kurantaj kurinta kurintaj kuronta kurontaj
acc. kurantan kurantajn kurintan kurintajn kurontan kurontajn
nominal active participle kuranto kurantoj kurinto kurintoj kuronto kurontoj
acc. kuranton kurantojn kurinton kurintojn kuronton kurontojn
adverbial active participle kurante kurinte kuronte
infinitive kuri imperative kuru conditional kurus

Derived terms
  • alkuri (“to run toward”)
  • antaŭenkuri (“to run forward”)
  • antaŭkuri (“to run ahead (of)”)
  • forkuri (“to run away”)
  • glitkuri (“to skate”)
  • kuregi (“to sprint; to race”)
  • skikuri (“to ski”)

Estonian

Etymology

Cognate to Finnish kurja. Possibly derived from kura (“left”).

Adjective

kuri (genitive kurja, partitive kurja)

  1. evil
  2. sinister

Inflection
Declension of kuri (type tühi)
singular plural
nominative kuri kurjad
genitive kurja kurjade
partitive kurja kurjasid / kurje
illative kurjasse / kurja kurjadesse / kurjesse
inessive kurjas kurjades
elative kurjast kurjadest
allative kurjale kurjadele
adessive kurjal kurjadel
ablative kurjalt kurjadelt
translative kurjaks kurjadeks
terminative kurjani kurjadeni
essive kurjana kurjadena
abessive kurjata kurjadeta
comitative kurjaga kurjadega

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

Unclear. A dialectal meaning (Southwestern and Satakunta) "narrow passage" may suggest origin as a parallel formation of kuru (“gorge”), with further semantic development being > "route" > "way" > "habit" > "discipline".

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkuri]
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ri

Noun

kuri

  1. discipline (enforced compliance or control)
  2. discipline (systematic method of obtaining obedience)
  3. discipline (state of order based on submission to authority)
  4. (law) short for kuritushuone (type of prison sentence)
  5. canyon (dialectal)

Declension
Inflection of kuri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative kuri kurit
genitive kurin kurien
partitive kuria kureja
illative kuriin kureihin
singular plural
nominative kuri kurit
accusative nom. kuri kurit
gen. kurin
genitive kurin kurien
partitive kuria kureja
inessive kurissa kureissa
elative kurista kureista
illative kuriin kureihin
adessive kurilla kureilla
ablative kurilta kureilta
allative kurille kureille
essive kurina kureina
translative kuriksi kureiksi
instructive — kurein
abessive kuritta kureitta
comitative — kureineen

Derived terms
  • pitää kurissa
  • toverikuri

See also

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

kuri

  1. Rōmaji transcription of くり
  2. Rōmaji transcription of クリ

Latvian

Pronoun

kuri m

  1. nominative plural form of kurš

Ngan'gityemerri

Noun

kuri

  1. (Ngan'gikurunggurr) water

Synonyms

References
  • Darrell T. Tryon, An introduction to Maranungku (Northern Australia) (1970) (quoted online in ASJP)

Ngarrindjeri
A kuri or river

Noun

kuri

  1. neck
  2. river
  3. voice

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali

Numeral

kuri

  1. twenty

Whitesands

Noun

kuri

  1. dog

References
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