Mongolian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Uyghur [script needed] (ters, false, awkward), perhaps from Middle Persian [script needed] (tarsâ, Christian). [1]

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Adjective edit

тэрс (ters) (Mongolian spelling ᠲᠡᠷᠰ (ters))

  1. heretical, heterodox, dissident
  2. contrary, stubbornly antagonistic, disobedient

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References edit

  1. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 880