κουρά

• κουρή (kourḗ) — Ionic

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, the same root of κείρω (keírō, “to cut, shear, crop”) and κορμός (kormós, “trunk of a tree”).

κουρᾱ́ • (kourā́) f (genitive κουρᾶς); first declension

1. cropping of the hair
2. (in general) cropping, lopping, shearing of sheep
3. lock of hair
4. wool shorn, fleece
5. (in the plural) slips of wood

• Greek: κουρά (kourá)

• “κουρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κουρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κουρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

• κουράδι (kourádi), κουρέ (kouré)

From Old Armenian քուրայ (kʻuray, “melting pot, furnace”).

κουρά (kourá)

1. iron mine

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “քուրայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Karolídis, Pávlos (1885) Γλωσσάριον συγκριτικόν ελληνοκαππαδοκικών λέξεων (in Greek), Smyrna: O Týpos, page 89
• Karolídis, Pávlos (1885) Γλωσσάριον συγκριτικόν ελληνοκαππαδοκικών λέξεων (in Greek), Smyrna: O Týpos, page 179

From Ancient Greek κουρά (kourá).

κουρά • (kourá) f

1. (scholarly): haircutting (work done by barber or shearer)

• κούρεμα n (koúrema)