kurus, piaster, piastre -- (100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey)
Overview of noun kuru
The noun kuru has 1 sense
kuru -- (a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned)