kıro

Meaning

1. clodhopper (peasant or yokel)
2. In contemporary usage (in Western Turkey) used to describe any uncultured person, regardless of ethnicity, and much less as an ethnic slur.
3. (derogatory) A person from countryside living in a metropolitan area , viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.

Concepts

clodhopper

Synonyms

hödük

Translations

croquant

Flegel

Bauerntölpel

Scharrhans

plouc

rustre

péquenaud

péquenot

ganso

paleto

patoso

Plebejer

Etymology

From Northern Kurdish kuro, vocative of kur (“boy, son”). (sense 2, 3) is rather a neologism, and as such, might as well be a derivation from kır (“countryside”) or a combination of both.