курганный, курганная, курганное. прил. к курган. Курганная баба (то же, что каменная).
прил. Др.-рус. курганъ (с 1224 г.) крепость, высокая насыпь; (с 1548 г.) могильный холм (Срезневский, 1, 1377); Даль, 2, 221; Рос. Целлариус, 1771, 255 курган; Ушаков, 1, 1551 из тур. kurgan крепость (Сл. Акад., 1956, 5, 1858). "Орх. курган Befestung в Codex Cumanicus означает Grabhügel, в чаг. укрепление, крепость, в алт., каз. крепостная стена (Корш, Arch, f. slav. PhiloL, 9, 511)" (Дмитриев, 1958, 28). Огиенко относит курган к заимствованиям древнего времени из персидского курган (1915, 33, 28). "Курган как крепость заимствовано наверняка, а курган могильный холм - вероятно, из др.-тюрк. kurran крепость..." (Фасмер, 2, 424). Радлов курган (тар., тур., устар. чаг.)—корган крепость, укрепление (2, 940); корган (каз., тар., ча.т.) = курган (южн. диал.) укрепление, крепость, укрепленный город (2, 570); коргон (тжрг.)—корран укрепление, крепость (2, 572). (There were few fortresses, but each Türkic family, in the last 4, 000 years before the adoption of foreign funeral traditions, had to face a question how to bury their pops and moms, kids and uncles, in a kurgan or without a kurgan. Etymologically, kurgan is a structure to be constructed, but we know kurgans not for their defensive qualities, but as memorials that dot Eurasia from Mongolia to Balkans, and given the importance of kurgan construction, evidenced by the efforts spent on their construction, the kurgan burial tradition was so ingrained into the psyche of the people, and followed them throughout their life so closely and frequently, that a thought that the name of the kurgan could have changed in these 4, 000 years would be unimaginable. Any visitor to the Easten Europe south of Oka river at the turn of the eras would be surrounded by kurgans, just the Moscow city territory south of Moscow river rests on more then 2, 000 kurgans. Every people who cohabitated with the Tьrkic people has the word "kurgan" in its vocabulary, and that covers not the Persians only, but every nation bordering or incorporating Tьrkic population. A philological analysis that ignores the substance of the matter is too bound, and therefore misleading. The root of the word "kurgan" is a verb "kur" (see "kurmysh" below), and it produced, naturaly, a slew of derivatives, which should have been known to the illustruous scholars, one of them is "kurgan", a "construction" (kurmysh "construction, development", kuren "village", kurgat "to build to dry", kurul "sanctuary", kurultai "assembly, mess-hall, basilica", to name a few). Some may want to forget and redraw history, but kurgans are memorials built to memorialize, and they still are doing their job. They do not talk about fortresses, they talk about people who are buried underneath, or may not even had a chance to be buried.)