тахал

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠲᠠᠬᠤᠯ (taqul)	тахал (taxal)

Etymology

Perhaps related to Common Turkic *toga (“illness”).

Cognate with Buryat тахал (taxal), Kalmyk тахл (taxl).

Noun

тахал • (taxal)

1. plague
2. epidemic