Uliastai

English

Etymology

From Mongolian Улиастай (Uliastaj).

Proper noun

Uliastai

1. The capital city of Zavkhan, Mongolia.
   • 1999, B. Batbayar, quoting Council of Ministers, “Russia and China Respond”, in Sukhjargalmaa Dugersuren, S. Burenbayar, Khulan Khashbat, Tuya Nyam-Osor, transl., edited by C. Kaplonski, History of Mongolia: From World Power to Soviet Satellite‎^[1], →ISBN , →OCLC, page 145:

     In 1769, when five banners of eastern Tannu Urianhai joined the Zasagt Khan, they were thereafter governed by the Uliastai amban. By the end of the eighteenth century, the population of the Urianhai frontier numbered roughly forty thousand.

Translations

a city in Mongolia

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏里雅蘇臺／乌里雅苏台 (zh) (Wūlǐyǎsūtái)

• Manchu: ᡠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠰᡠᡨᠠᡳ (uliyasutai)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Улиастай (Uliastaj)

  Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠢᠶᠠᠰᠤᠲᠠᠢ (uliyasutai)

• Russian: Улиаста́й m (Uliastáj)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Uliastay or Jibhalanta”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3264, column 2: “Also spelled Uliassutai, Uliastai, Ulyasatay.”
• Uliastai, Uliassutai, Uliastai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.