# کور
## Baluchi
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

کور • (kor)
* blind

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

کور • (kor)
* river

### See also

* کھور (khor)

## Gilaki
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to arise, begin”); see it for more information and cognates.

### Noun

کور (kor)
* girl

## Khalaj
### Adjective

کور (kôr, kûor)
* Arabic spelling of kôr, kûor (“blind”)

## Pashto
### Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *kor < *kār, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *kār, from Proto-Iranian *kārah.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kor/

### Noun

کور • (kor) m (plural کورونه (koruna))
* house

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus
* Pashto English (Academy of Sciences Kabul)

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwl), 𐫐𐫇𐫡 (kwr), 𐫞𐫇𐫡 (qwr /⁠kōr⁠/, “blind”). Compare Sogdian [script needed] (kwr /⁠kōr⁠/), and Old Armenian կոյր (koyr, “blind”), an Iranian borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [koːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰoːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰoːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [kʰoːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [kʰʊːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [kʰuːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [kʰɵɾ]

### Adjective

| Dari | کور |
| Iranian Persian | کور |
| Tajik | кӯр |
کور • (kur)
* blind
    Synonyms: نابینا (nâbinâ), مکفوف‌البصر (makfuf-ol-basar), اعمی (a'mâ)

#### Derived terms

* کوری (kuri, “blindness”)
* کور کردن (kur kardan)
* کور شدن (kur šodan)
* کورپشه (kur-paše, “mosquito”)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: kor
* → Gujarati: કોર (kor)
* → Romani: korro
* → Kazakh: көр (kör)
* → Khalaj: kôr
* → Ottoman Turkish: كور (kör)
** Turkish: kör
** → Albanian: qorr
** → Middle Armenian: քոռ (kʻoṙ)
*** Armenian: քոռ (kʻoṙ), քյոռ (kʻyoṙ)
** → Bulgarian: кьор (kjor)
** → Georgian: ქორი (kori)
** → Romanian: chior
** → Serbo-Croatian: ћор, ćor
* → Pashto: کور (kor)
* → Urdu: کور (kor, kūr)
* → Uyghur: كور (kor)
* → Uzbek: koʻr

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 631b
* Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 680
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 173

## Urdu
### Etymology 1

From Classical Persian کور (kūr).

#### Adjective

کور • (kor, kūr) (Hindi spelling कोर or कूर)
* blind

### Etymology 2

From Sanskrit क्रूर (krūrá), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kruHrás.

#### Alternative forms

* کرور (krūr)

#### Adjective

کور • (kūr) (Hindi spelling कूर)
* cruel, harsh, vile, inauspicious
* hurt, wounded

### Etymology 3

From Sanskrit कोटि (koṭi).

#### Noun

کور • (kor) f (Hindi spelling कोर)
* point, tip
* side, edge
* splinter
* crore

### References

* McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कोर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
* Platts, John T. (1884) “کور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.