Koord (software)
Koord may be: * an abbreviation for botanist Sijfert Hendrik Koorders (wikispecies) * an obsolete spelling of Kurd See also * Kūrd * Coord In geometry, a coordinate system is a system that uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine the position of the points or other geometric elements on a manifold such as Euclidean space. The order of the coordinates is signi ...

Sijfert Hendrik Koorders
Sijfert Hendrik Koorders (1863 – 1919) was a Dutch botanist, who worked primarily on the flora of Java. Life Koorders was born in Bandung, Indonesia on 29 November 1863. In 1881 he graduated from the Hogere Burgerschool in Haarlem in the Netherlands. He then pursued advanced studies in forestry at the Royal Prussian Forestry and Hunting Academy in Neustadt Eberswalde, as well as attending classes at the University of Tübingen and the National Agricultural School in Wageningen. In 1885 he became a forest officer for the Dutch East Indies Forest Service in Java. In 1892 he became a curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense in Bogor, Java, Indonesia, where he deposited approximately 40,000 specimens. In 1912 he founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection. Legacy He is the authority for at least 648 taxa including: Several taxa are named in his honor including: *'' Begonia koordersii'' Warb. ex L.B.Sm. & Wassh. *'' Calamus koordersianus'' Becc. *'' F ...
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Kurd
ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million. Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages. After World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. However, that promise was broken three years later, when the Treaty of Lausanne set the boundaries of modern Turkey and made no such ...
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Kūrd
The Kūrd are a Brahui tribe of Balochistan in Pakistan. They belong to the Sarawan group and speak the Dravidian Brahui language.. Not all Brahui tribes speak Brahui. Josef Elfenbein contends that they are among the first Brahui-speakers to have come in contact with outsiders in the former Khanate of Kalat, as they appear in a certain oral tradition of the Persian-speaking Dehwars of Mastung District, where they are known as ''Kūrdgalla'' 'Kurd-people'. This term is likely to have been the source of Kūrdgāl, the name by which the Kūrd are known to the Baloch and the Jats, among whom it has been reinterpreted as meaning "speaker of ''Kūrd''. A proposed connection with the Kurds of Western Asia has been dismissed by Elfenbein as folk etymology Folk etymology (also known as popular etymology, analogical reformation, reanalysis, morphological reanalysis or etymological reinterpretation) is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by ...
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