Wiktionary
alt. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women. n. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women.
WordNet
n. a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama)
Wikipedia
A kurta (,,, , ) is an upper garment for men and women, originating in South Asia, with regional variations of form.
Kurta is an abandoned village in the former South Ossetian autonomous oblast of Georgia. Populated largely by ethnic Georgians, it was one of the towns that remained under the control of Georgia between the unilateral secession of South Ossetia after the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War and the 2008 South Ossetia War.
Kurta is situated nine kilometers north-east of Tskhinvali, the secessionist-controlled capital of South Ossetia, on the right bank of the Greater Liakhvi River, and is strategically placed along the Trans-Caucasus Highway (TransCam) between Tskhinvali and Java. After the Parliament of Georgia passed a resolution on the establishment of the Temporary Territorial Unit on April 11, 2007, Kurta became the headquarters of the Provisional Administration of South Ossetia headed by the ethnic Ossetian Dmitry Sanakoyev. The Georgian government also allocated 1,850,000 lari to rehabilitation of the village's infrastructure.
Kurta and its environs are part of the Greater Liakhvi Valley Museum-Reserve. The village itself houses a late medieval Georgian Orthodox church of St. George.
On the eve of the 2008 war, all the Georgian inhabitants were evacuated to Georgia proper and most of their abandoned homes were destroyed later. The homes were not rebuilt and the population did not return, leaving the largely destroyed village a ghost town.
Usage examples of "kurta".
He tore a strip from his kurta, glad he had worn it in expectation of a nippy wind.
Both arrows whizzed past him, the rusty iron head of the second one nicking and shredding the seam of his kurta, and buried themselves in the side of the knoll.
Bhatterji wore a terri wool cream sherwani, hand-stitched with gold thread, over embroidered jutti and kurta paijamas.
When he had finished, he returned with clean clothes--a pale green kurta and white pantaloon pajamas-as well as a clean towel, two new buckets, one empty, one full of water, and a bar of soap.
Andisak was wise, and allowed no gap between his village and the next, but that spoke only of Kais Kurta.
Who, while I in bright white kurta and pajamas went Lambretta‑borne into the curfewed streets, found what I was looking for?