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Kuremarja (Kuremari)
Cranberry, fenberry. Lit. crane berry, cf. German Kranichbeere, and Low German Kranebere. Alternative name for Jõhvika. Group of berry streets near the Liiva kalmistu. See Leesika.
Kurepõllu (Kurepõld) 
Crane’s field. Sub-district formerly known as Turba and 11. Lasnamäe mikrorajoon, assembled from two streets, neither of which now exist. Since today’s Kure was baptized in Mooni Ward (allasum) on Valentine’s day 1958, Its Kurepõllu counterpart was scrapped 4 months later; and Põllu, which already existed in Nõmme, was renamed Lasnamäe põik, and then scrapped too. A new Kurepõllu tänav, planned to cross from Narva to Valge, was created in 2001, is still thinking about it.
Kurereha (Kurereha)
Geranium, crane’s bill, Geranium spp. Names come from the shape of the spring-action fruit capsule allowing for seed dispersal resembling the beak of a crane: Latin: Geranion from Greek: γερανος (geranos): crane. Ditto Estonian: Kure, crane & reha, rake, the latter due to the appearance of the fruit capsule’s five ‘catapult arms’. One of a meadow flower or grass group. See Lõosilma.
Kurni (Kurn)
Game involving six wooden pins to be knocked down by a cudgel, more often or accurately the pin itself. Played by Kalevipoeg as a child. Russian game of Городки (gorodki), lit.: ‘townlets’. Part of a mini game-name area. See Mängu.
