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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mongolian

Mongolian \Mon*go"li*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols. -- n. One of the Mongols.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Mongolian

1738 (adj.); 1846 (n.), from Mongol + -ian. As a classification for "the Asiatic race," it is from 1868.

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Mongolian

Mongolian primarily means "of or pertaining to Mongolia", a landlocked country in East and Central Asia that borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west.

Mongolian may also refer to:

  • Mongolian, meaning "of or pertaining to Mongols"
  • Mongolian language
  • Mongolian alphabet
  • Mongolian (Unicode block)
  • Mongolian cuisine
Mongolian (Unicode block)

Mongolian is a Unicode block containing characters for dialects of Mongolian, Manchu, and Sibe languages. It is traditionally written in vertical lines , although the Unicode code charts cite the characters rotated to horizontal orientation.

The block has dozens of variation sequences defined for standardized variants.

Usage examples of "mongolian".

Australia and New Zealand: Abor Miri, Aneityum, Annamese, Balochi, Bentuni, Binandere, Cheremiss, Chungchia, Georgian, Houailou, Javanese, Kado, Kaili, Kopu, Kusaie, Lepcha, Lifu, Manchu, Manipuri, Manus Island, Marquesas, Mentawei, Mongolian, Mordoff, Mwala, Na-Hsi, Nicobarese, Niue, Ossete, Ostiak, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Perm, Petats, Samoan, Tho, Tibetan, Tonga, Vogul.

South Africa, too, England was sowing trouble with Mongolian miners, until the Africanders took it upon themselves to rid their country of this yellow plague.

So Splendid, an amateur archaeologist, had expected, before being selected for this experimental mer-colony, to specialize in one of the pre-Columbian American Indian cultures and to trace the connections between it and the prehistoric Mongolian cultures from which the Amerinds derived.

An international team of paleoseismologists was assembled, and I was called from the Great Boneyard of the Gobi by my superiors at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences at Ulan Bator to leave my triceratops and fly to the middle of hell on earth, the great sand ocean of the Sahara, to assist in excavating and analyzing what some said would be the discovery of the age.

Central India, the Kols, Gonds, Bhils, and others which have certain characteristics of the Mongolian, but with skins almost as dark as the Negro, and the full eye of the Caucasian.

Mongolian desert was presumably a subject of discussion at the meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

Arabic, innumerable Indian dialects, Hebrew, Pehlevi, Assyrian, Babylonian, Mongolian, Chinese, Burmese, Mesopotamian, Javanese: the list of philological works considered Orientalist is almost uncountable.

The wind off the Mongolian desert blew hot and dusty in the summer and sent blizzard after blizzard down on the countryside in winter.

Mongol warlords, namely Mongolian Tartars, charged against the walled city of Kaffa in an attempt to push the resident Genoese colonists out of Mongolia and back into the sea.

Nineteenth-century archaeologists in the Komi region had unearthed large amounts of ceramic pottery with Mongolian ornament.

Turanian or Mongolian is also a branch of the Noachic or Atlantean stock.

Peking dates and black tree fungus was followed by an exotic Mongolian stew: venison, rabbit, chicken, fish, figs, apples, peaches, curds, butter, spices, and herbs, all boiled together with mounds of sugar candy.

We also find it in the Mongolian oulous, the Kabyle thaddart, the Javanese dessa, the Malayan kota or tofa, and under a variety of names in Abyssinia, the Soudan, in the interior of Africa, with natives of both Americas, with all the small and large tribes of the Pacific archipelagoes.

I had a few tyre-sized pizzas in a Mongolian snack-bar, and cabbed back to the hotel.

On his way in, Treloar gave the giant Mongolian bouncer a twenty-dollar bill for the cover charge.