Mongol

See also: mongol and Mongȫl

English

Alternative forms

• Mongal (obsolete)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian монго́л (mongól).

Pronunciation

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

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

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 offensive) (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

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

Translations

member of the nomadic people

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian:

  Middle Armenian: ազգն նետողաց (azgn netołacʿ)

• Chagatai: مونکغال‎ (mōn͜kğāl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒙古人 (zh) (Měnggǔrén)

• Danish: mongol c
• Dutch: Mongool (nl) m, Mongoolse (nl) f
• Finnish: mongoli (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Mongole (de) m
• Hindi: मंगोल (hi) m (maṅgol), मङ्गोल (hi) m (maṅgol)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: Mongóli m
• Irish: Mongólach m
• Kalmyk: моңһл (moñhl)
• Kazakh:

  Arabic: مۇڭعول‎ (mongĝul)

  Cyrillic: моңғол (moñğol)

  Latin: mońǵol

• Khakas: моол (mool)
• Khmer: ម៉ុងហ៊្គោល (mong gol)
• Kurdish:
• Korean: 몽골 (ko) (Monggol), 몽고(蒙古) (ko) (Monggo)

  Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

• Kyrgyz: моңгол (ky) (moñğol)
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ (monggo), ᠮᠣᠩᡤᡡ (monggū)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: монгол (mn) (mongol)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mongol m

  Nynorsk: mongol (nn) m

• Persian: مغول‎ (fa) (moğol)
• Portuguese: mongol (pt) m
• Russian: монго́л (ru) m (mongól), монго́лка (ru) f (mongólka)
• Solon: mōnggōl
• Southern Altai: монгол (mongol), моҥол (moŋol)
• Spanish: mongol (es) m, mogol m
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: มองโกล m
• Tibetan: སོག་པོ (sog po)
• Turkish: moğol
• Tuvan: моол (mool)
• Uyghur:

  UEY: موڭغۇل‎ (mongghul)

  USY: моңғул (mongghul)

• Written Oirat: ᡏᡆᡊᡎᡆᠯ (mongɣol)
• Wutunhua: sokho
• Xibe: please add this translation if you can

A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian — see Mongolian

someone with Down's syndrome

• Dutch: mongool (nl) m
• German: Mongoloider m
• Icelandic: mongólíti (is) m

• Portuguese: mongoloide m
• Spanish: mongólico (es) m
• Swedish: mongolid (sv) c

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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoŋɡol]

Noun

Mongol m anim (feminine Mongolka)

1. Mongolian, Mongol

Declension

Declension

	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

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French

Noun

Mongol m (plural Mongols, feminine Mongole)

1. Mongolian (person)

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Luxembourgish

Noun

Mongol m (plural Mongolen, feminine Mongolin)

1. Mongolian

Related terms

• mongolesch

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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