орон

From Proto-Mongolic *oran, a borrowing from Proto-Turkic *orun. Originally the same word as ор (or), only with the unstable n generalized to all cases.

Compare Dongxiang oron, Kazakh орын (orın).

• (Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /ɔrəŋ/, [ˈɔ̙ɾɞ̙ɴ]

орон • (oron) (Mongolian spelling ᠣᠷᠤᠨ (orun), plural орнууд); (regular declension )

1. place
2. country, territory
3. home, dwelling, apartment
4. station, office, position
5. role, purpose, stead

   миний оронд

   minij orond

   instead of me

6. institution, center
7. digit (numeral)
8. (obsolete, grammar) case
9. (algebra, physics) field

• (place, country): газар (gazar), нутаг (nutag), гүрэн (güren)
• (home): гэр (ger), байр (bajr)
• (case): тийн ялгал (tijn jalgal)

• орлох (orloh, “to replace”)
• бурхны орон (burhny oron, “paradise”)
• орон шорон (oron šoron, “prison”)

оро̄н (orōn)

1. reindeer

From Proto-Turkic *orun (“place”), possibly re-borrowed through Mongolic, compare Mongolian ор (or, “bed”).

Cognate with Bashkir урын (urïn, “place; bed”).

орон • (oron)

1. bed