Definitions for Kurgan

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Kurgan kur·gan

Spelling: [koo r-gahn, -gan]

IPA: /kʊərˈgɑn, -ˈgæn/

Kurgan is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in Kurgan (agknru).

Definitions for Kurgan

noun

1. a circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave and often containing grave vessels, weapons, and the bodies of horses as well as a single human body; originally in use in the Russian Steppes but later spreading into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the third millennium b.c.
2. a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.

Origin of Kurgan

1885-90; Russian kurgán burial mound, Old Russian, apparently to be identified with kurganŭ fortress Turkic; compare Turkish, Tatar kurğan, Chagatai, Kazakh korğan fortress, castle

Examples for Kurgan

Sergi states that it varies from 65 to 81, but it seems likely that among his collection of kurgan skulls are some of other types.

These people buried their dead in barrows, or kurgans, and for this reason they have been called kurgan people.