tɔ꞉rag

Oroqen

Alternative forms

toorag

Etymology

From Mongolian тоос (toos, “dust”). Compare other Tungusic languages: Nanai бурэхи (burexi), Manchu ᠪᡠᡵᠠᡴᡳ (buraki), Evenki на̄мнэ (nāmnə).

Noun

tɔ꞉rag

1. dust

See also

• ʃirgi (“sand”)
• tʊkala (“soil, earth, dirt”)
• tilbaka (“mud”)
• tur (“land, earth”)

References

• Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)