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Yes. The word kurgan is a Scrabble US word. The word kurgan is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is kurgan a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word kurgan is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

KURGAN,

5-letter words (2 found)

KNAUR,KRANG,

4-letter words (23 found)

GAUN,GAUR,GNAR,GRAN,GUAN,GUAR,GUNK,GURN,KAGU,KANG,KARN,KNAG,KNAR,KNUR,KUNA,NARK,RAGU,RAKU,RANG,RANK,RAUN,RUGA,RUNG,

3-letter words (17 found)

ARK,AUK,GAK,GAN,GAR,GAU,GNU,GUN,GUR,NAG,NUG,NUR,RAG,RAN,RUG,RUN,URN,

2-letter words (10 found)

AG,AN,AR,GU,KA,NA,NU,UG,UN,UR,

You can make 53 words from kurgan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of kurgan

kurgan

Etymology

From Russian курга́н (kurgán), from a Turkic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʊəˈɡɑːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

kurgan (plural kurgans)

  1. A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.

Synonyms

  • See burial mound § Synonyms

Translations

See also

  • Kurgan (Курган – Kurgán, a city in Russia)

Portuguese

Noun

kurgan m (plural kurgans)

  1. (archaeology) kurgan (prehistoric burial mound in Central Asia)

Turkish

Etymology

There are two principal sources considered for the word Kurgan:

  1. the Old Turkic [script needed] (korgan, “refuge, fortress”) and Chagatai قورغان (qurğan, “fortress, rampart, major shrine”). Both are considered as a sound shifting of Old Turkic [script needed] (korığan), from the word stem korı- ("to protect, defend") with the Old Turkic Suffix -gan forming proper names, a form which has been reintroduced into Turkish during World War II as korugan (“fortification”).
  2. the Old Turkic word stem qur-, of which kurgan is a derivation, is rooted in the reconstructed Proto-Turkic *Kur- ("to erect (a building), to establish"). This word "kurgan" is sometimes hard to distinguish from Proto-Turkic form *Kōrɨ-kan ("fence, protection").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuɾˈɡɑn/

Noun

kurgan (definite accusative kurganı, plural kurganlar)

  1. castle, fortress
  2. mound, tell

References


Source: wiktionary.org