Mongol
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒŋɡəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑŋɡəl/, /ˈmɑŋˌɡoʊl/, /ˈmɔŋˌɡoʊl/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋɡəl
Noun
Mongol (plural Mongols)
- A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
- A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
- (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.
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- A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th Century.
- A member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club of California, United States.
Translations
A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian — see Mongolian
someone with Down's syndrome
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member of the nomadic people
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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.
Czech
Declension
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Mongol | Mongolové |
genitive | Mongola | Mongolů |
dative | Mongolovi, Mongolu | Mongolům |
accusative | Mongola | Mongoly |
vocative | Mongole | Mongolové |
locative | Mongolovi, Mongolu | Mongolech |
instrumental | Mongolem | Mongoly |
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǒnɡoːl/
- Hyphenation: Mon‧gol
Declension
Declension of Mongol
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Mongol | Mongoli |
genitive | Mongola | Mongola |
dative | Mongolu | Mongolima |
accusative | Mongola | Mongole |
vocative | Mongolu | Mongoli |
locative | Mongolu | Mongolima |
instrumental | Mongolom | Mongolima |
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