somon
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From Russian сомон (somon), from Buryat сомон (somon), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).
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somon (plural somons)
- Alternative form of sum (“Mongolian administrative division”), particularly in relation to Buryatia, Russia.
- 1993, John Colvin, Twice Around the World: Some Memoirs of Diplomatic Life in North Vietnam and Outer Mongolia:
- Next day we drove through hilly pasture, in which we observed two large flocks of cranes, to Kharkorin, once the imperial city of Ogodei Khan, now a somon centre and state farm lying in a great plain encircled by mountains.
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somon
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Borrowed from French saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō.
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somon m (plural somoni)
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somon (definite accusative somonu, plural somonlar)
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Possibly a foreign borrowing.
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somon