Crossword clues for yurt
yurt
- Tent for nomads
- Tatar tepee
- Steppe shelter
- Round tent of Mongolian nomads
- Portable Asian shelter
- Nomadic shelter
- Nomad dwelling
- Mongolian shelter
- Mongolian residence
- Mongolian home
- Mongolian circular tent
- Mobile dwelling on a steppe
- Kyrgyz dwelling
- Humble Mongolian residence, sometimes
- Gobi dwelling
- Glamping site, maybe
- Glamping option
- Felt tent of Mongolia
- Dwelling mentioned in "Colorado: Hut to Hut"
- Dome-shaped tent
- Desert digs?
- Circular, domed tent
- Circular tent
- Camper's circular tent-like dwelling
- Accommodation for some state park campers
- Mongolian tent residence
- Tentlike dwelling with a conical roof
- Steppes dwelling
- Portable tent
- Mongolian felt tent
- Siberian tent
- Mongol tent
- Light, round tent
- Circular tent of central Asia
- Accommodation from the East truly lacking a trace of luxury
- Mongolian dwelling
- Mongol's tent
- Nomad's tent
- Asian tent
- Mongols' tent
- Turkish tent
- Round house
- Nomadic home
- Mongolian abode
- Gobi abode
- Domed tent
- Turkic tent
- Tentlike dwelling
- Tent that's big in Turkmenistan
- Tent that might be a permanent home
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"house or hut of the natives of north and central Asia," 1784, ultimately from Russian yurta, from a Turkic language and originally meaning "home, dwelling."
Wiktionary
n. A large, round semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and conical roof usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia.
WordNet
n. a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
Wikipedia
A traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises an angled assembly or latticework of pieces of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs (poles, rafters), and a wheel (crown, compression ring) possibly steam-bent. The roof structure is often self-supporting, but large yurts may have interior posts supporting the crown. The top of the wall of self-supporting yurts is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs. Modern yurts may be permanently built on a wooden platform; they may use modern materials such as steam-bent wooden framing or metal framing, canvas or tarpaulin, Plexiglas dome, wire rope, or radiant insulation.
Yurt is a portable dwelling structure.
Yurt may also refer to:
Usage examples of "yurt".
Janiya took Erdene into the yurt to talk to her alone, and came out looking utterly exasperated.
Tents and yurts of the Senan, Gilk, Ahkrata and Barahn tribesas well as many otherscovered the valley floor.
As they drew nearer to the camp, Malik saw tents with torn flaps, shacks with painted walls, and worn-down paths winding among the yurts.
After a few moments, people disappeared inside the yurts, but one young man remained outside, staring past Malik at the Guardian.
With his own preparations to make, General Chanar wheeled his horse around and galloped away, headed toward his own yurt.
MONK FROM TIBET: He lived in a yurt, ate tea thick with butter, wondered a lot about life, took a vow of chastity but broke it when he was in Alexandria, discovered the Ovis poli and the spectacled bear, not knowing what he had discovered, knew some good jokes, and died without ever being really satisfied.
Mongols were shamanists, eschewing public rituals for oracles, exorcisms and magic displays in the privacy of their yurts.
He had begged for a bed in dirty hovels and caravanserais, and drunk sour milk in felt yurts.
In the musty dark of the yurt, where children snored gently in their cots, the cosmonauts were given breakfast of a little unleavened bread, and a bowl of a kind of hot tea.
There were no permanent buildings, only domelike yurts of white and black spread out in the shallow bowl of a valley.
The nightguard, the same man who was in the yurt when they left, ran up to the door and dropped to one knee alongside the khahan.
Outside, the finest and most trusted of the nightguards ringed the yurt.
At first Kolya puzzled about how the yurt could be taken down and reerected, as it must be at least twice a year as the nomads traveled between their summer and winter pastures.
Judging by the dirty exteriors, Koja doubted the yurts were bright and cheery inside.
Beyond the fence Koja saw five large yurts, bigger than any he had passed.