Kurban is a term for

animal sacrifice Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of one or more animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and the Ancient Near East until the spr ...

in: *Islam, see

qurban ''Qurbanī'' ( ar, قربانى), ''Qurban'', or ''uḍḥiyah'' () as referred to in Islamic law, is a ritual animal sacrifice of a livestock animal during Eid al-Adha. The concept and definition of the word is derived from the Qur'an, the sa ...

i *Judaism, see

korban In Judaism, the korban ( ''qorbān''), also spelled ''qorban'' or ''corban'', is any of a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the Torah. The plural form is korbanot, korbanoth or korbans. The term Korban primarily re ...

*the Balkans, see

kourbania ''Kourbania'' ( el, το κουρμπάνι, pl. from tr, kurban, from Arabic قربان ''kurban'' 'sacrificial victim') is a Christianized animal sacrifice in parts of Greece. It usually involves the slaughter of lambs as "kourbania" offering ...

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Given name

* Kurban Günebakan (born 1978), Turkish boxer *

Kurban Kurbanov Kurban Kurbanov (russian: Курбан Курбанов; born 21 March 1985 in Makhachkala, Dagestan) is an Uzbek freestyle wrestler from Russia. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the 96 kg category and finished in seventh ...

(born 1985), freestyle wrestler from Uzbekistan *

Kurban Said Kurban Said ( az, Qurban Səid/, ) is the pseudonym of the author of ''Ali and Nino'', a novel originally published in 1937 in the German language by the Austrian publisher E.P. Tal. The novel has since been published in more than 30 languages. ...

, pseudonym of the author Azerbaijani–UkrainianLev Nussimbaum (1905–1942) *

Kurban Tulum Kurban Tulum ( ug, قۇربان تۇلۇم, translit=qurban tulum, ; 1883 – May 26, 1975), also called Uncle Kurban (), was a Uyghur who lived in Yutian County, Xinjiang, China in what was the Keriya oasis. He has been promoted by the Communis ...

(1883-1975), Uyghur treated by the Communist Party of China as a symbol of unity with the Uyghurs * Naheed Kurban Nenshi (born 1972), Canadian politician

Surname

Olga Kurban Olga Ivanovna Kurban (russian: Ольга Ивановна Курбан; born December 16, 1987, in Irkutsk) is a female heptathlete from Russia, who competed for her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in Lond ...

(born 1987), Russian female heptathlete * Roy Kurban, American Taekwondo martial arts grandmaster

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Kurban (band) Kurban were a Turkey, Turkish heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in 1995. The band's members were Kerem Tüzün, Burak Gürpınar, Deniz Yılmaz and Özgür Kankaynar. The band opened for Metallica in 1999 at the Ali Sami Yen Stadium, and ...

, a Turkish rock band

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