Mongol

See also: mongol, mongòl, Mongȫl, mongoł, and Mongoł

English

Alternative forms

  • Mongal (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒŋɡəl/
  • (file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑŋɡəl/, /ˈmɑŋˌɡoʊl/, /ˈmɔŋˌɡoʊl/
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋɡəl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian монго́л (mongól).

Noun

Mongol (plural Mongols)

  1. A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
  2. A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
  3. (dated, now offensive) (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
  4. A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th Century.
  5. A member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club of California, United States.
Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Mongol

  1. A Keram language spoken in Papua New Guinea (also known by its native name Mwakai).

References

  • 1992 Webster's New World Encyclopedia. Prentice Hall
  • 1970 R C H Davis A History of Medieval Europe. Longman SBN 582 48208 9. P404 et. seq.

Anagrams


Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmoŋɡol]

Noun

Mongol m anim (feminine Mongolka)

  1. Mongolian, Mongol

Declension


French

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

Mongol m (plural Mongols, feminine Mongole)

  1. Mongolian (person)

Luxembourgish

Noun

Mongol m (plural Mongolen, feminine Mongolin)

  1. Mongolian
  • mongolesch

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǒnɡoːl/
  • Hyphenation: Mon‧gol

Proper noun

Mòngōl m (Cyrillic spelling Мо̀нго̄л)

  1. Mongolian (person)

Declension

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