كور

كُورَةٌ ذ A province, district, or tract of country; a quarter, or region; syn. صُقْعٌ: (S, Msb, K:) a مِخْلَاف [q. v.] of a country; i. e., a قَرْيَةٌ [which properly signifies a town or village ] of the قُرًى of El-Yemen: (M, TA:) [but مخلاف is generally used in the first of the senses here assigned to كورة:] and also a city: (S, Msb, K:) [or a provincial city: but the first of these significations is the most common, as is implied in the Msb: see also بَنْدٌ:] pl. كُوَرٌ, (S, Msb, K,) like as غُرَفٌ is pl. of غُرْفَةٌ. (Msb.) IDrd says, I do not think it Arabic. (TA.) [Perhaps from the Greek χῶρα .]