Mongol

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

English

Alternative forms

• Mongal (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒŋɡəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋɡəl/, /ˈmɑŋˌɡoʊl/, /ˈmɔŋˌɡoʊl/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɡəl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ (mongqol).

The sense “person with Down syndrome” comes from the fact that people with this condition often have a prominent epicanthic fold, as most people of East Asian ethnicity do.

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 derogatory, offensive) A person with Down's syndrome.

   Alternative form: mongol

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• Mongolist
• Mongolistics
• Turco-Mongol

 

Related terms

• Mongolia
• Mongolian
• mongolism
• mongoloid
• Golden Horde
• Moghul

Translations

member of the nomadic people — see Mongolian

a person from Mongolia; a Mongolian — see Mongolian

someone with Down's syndrome

• Afrikaans: mongool
• Dutch: mongool (nl) m
• German: Mongoloider m
• Icelandic: mongólíti (is) m
• Macedonian: монголои́д m (mongoloíd)
• Portuguese: mongoloide m
• Spanish: mongólico (es) m
• Swedish: mongolid (sv) c

Adjective

Mongol (comparative more Mongol, superlative most Mongol)

1. Synonym of Mongolian.
   • 1878 March–April, Hoinos, “Æsop in Mongolia”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume IX, number 2, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 118:

     THE following fables are selected from a number which a Mongol teacher dictated in his attempts to familiarise a foreigner with the language of Mongolia. It will be seen at a glance that most of them are not native to the country, but come from a laud abounding with sights and scenes unknown to Mongolia. One or two of them, though, have a very Mongol look about them, and doubtless a good many of them have adopted more or less of a Mongol dress.

   • 1997, Sheila Paine, “[Uzbekistan] Shakhrisabz”, in The Golden Horde: Travels from the Himalaya to Karpathos, London: Penguin Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 145:

     An old woman with a very Mongol face, a bright Uzbek print dress and a shopping bag, got off at every stop and back on again.

   • 2010, Paul D. Buell, Eugene N[ewton] Anderson, “[Juan One] Translation”, in A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era As Seen in Hu Sihui’s Yinshan Zhengyao (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series; 9), 2nd edition, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, part B (Text and Translation), footnote 62, page 287:

     This topping for Iranian bread (or its Chinese derivative shaobing) is truly unique. We know of nothing like it anywhere else. It is also very different from anything else in the YSZY. A very Mongol flavor is implied, if it is not a straight borrowing from nomadic Turks. The “Iranian cakes” are Persian bread (nan), still a staple food in Ningxia and Xinjiang. In the Chinese Islamic Restaurant, a Ningxia Hui restaurant near Los Angeles, we have eaten similar stews with their incomparable nan–style bread. This particular stew, however, is one of the YSZY’s amazing, unique, and creative blendings of Mongol, Near Eastern, and Chinese elements (cf. recipes # 21–23, etc.).

Derived terms

• Turco-Mongol

 

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

• glom on

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoŋɡol]

Noun

Mongol m anim (female equivalent Mongolka)

1. Mongolian, Mongol

Declension

Declension of Mongol (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Mongol	Mongolové
genitive	Mongola	Mongolů
dative	Mongolovi, Mongolu	Mongolům
accusative	Mongola	Mongoly
vocative	Mongole	Mongolové
locative	Mongolovi, Mongolu	Mongolech
instrumental	Mongolem	Mongoly

Related terms

• Mongolsko
• mongolština

 

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

Mongol m (plural Mongols, feminine Mongole)

1. Mongolian (person)

Luxembourgish

Noun

Mongol m (plural Mongolen, feminine Mongolin)

1. Mongolian

Related terms

• mongolesch

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mòngōl m (Cyrillic spelling Мо̀нго̄л)

1. Mongolian (person)

Declension

Declension of Mongol

	singular	plural
nominative	Mongol	Mongoli
genitive	Mongola	Mongola
dative	Mongolu	Mongolima
accusative	Mongola	Mongole
vocative	Mongolu	Mongoli
locative	Mongolu	Mongolima
instrumental	Mongolom	Mongolima