A kurtka (куртка) is the generic word for a jacket in a number of European languages, most notably in Polish and Russian. The word itself is a Slavic diminutive of the original Hungarian word kurta, which in turn was derived of the Latin word curtus, `excurtus`, meaning short (see Alejandro Cioranescu: Diccionario Etimologico Rumano). In a..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtka