English Explanatory Dictionary

Kursk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city in Kursk Oblast, the administrative centre of Kursky Raion and Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1032, scene in 1943 of the largest battle in human history.
  2. A magnetic anomaly in Chernozemye, Russia, first discovered in 1773, the largest magnetic anomaly on Earth.
  3. An oblast of the Central Federal District, Russia, established in 1934 from the bipartition of the Central Black Earth Oblast.
  4. An impact crater in Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, six kilometres in diameter, formed 330 to 170 million years ago.
  5. A village, the administrative centre of Kursky selsoviet, Kulundinsky Raion, Altai Krai, Siberian Federal District, Russia, founded in 1909.
  6. A hamlet in Krasnoturansky Raion, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberian Federal District, Russia.
  7. A hamlet in Bolshevrudskoye rural settlement, Volosovsky Raion, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1500 in Dmitry Kitayev’s Scribe book of the Votian fifth for the year 7008 A.M..
  8. A settlement in Bolshevrudskoye rural settlement, Volosovsky Raion, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɜɹsk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kursk.wav

Word forms

Kursk

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Курск (Kursk), referring to the Kur River.

Related words

Kurskaya Kursko Kurskoye Kursk-Smolenka Kursky Novokursk

Translations

Arabic: كُورْسْك Armenian: Կուրսկ Belarusian: Курск Bulgarian: Курск Catalan: Kursk Chinese Mandarin: 庫爾斯克 /库尔斯克 Czech: Kursk Danish: Kursk Dutch: Koersk Estonian: Kursk Farefare: Kursku Finnish: Kursk French: Koursk Georgian: კურსკი German: Kursk Hebrew: קורסק Hindi: कुर्स्क Hungarian: Kurszk Japanese: クルスク Korean: 쿠르스크 Latin: Kurscha Latvian: Kurska Lithuanian: Kùrskas Macedonian: Курск Mongolian: Курск Norwegian Bokmål: Kursk Occitan: Korsk Iranian Persian: کورْسْک Polish: Kursk Portuguese: Kursk Russian: Курск Russian: Ку́рский кра́тер Serbo-Croatian: Курск Serbo-Croatian: Kursk Slovak: Kursk Slovene: Kursk Spanish: Kursk Swedish: Kursk Thai: คูสค์ Turkish: Kursk Ukrainian: Курськ Urdu: کُورْسْک
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