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English
Alternative forms
Mongalian ( of or relating to Mongolia; native of Mongolia )
mongolian ( designating or affected with Down syndrome )
Etymology
Originally from Mongol + -ian , a translation (1706) of the German mongolisch , mongalisch . Subsequently, from the name of the country of Mongolia + -an .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /mɒŋˈɡoʊliən/
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Adjective
Mongolian (comparative more Mongolian , superlative most Mongolian )
Of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples , languages , or cultures .
( anthropology , dated ) Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the mongoloid racial type.
1828 , John Stark, Elements of natural history :The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
1834 , Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge , volume II:The white (or Caucasian), the yellow (or Mongolian ), and the black (or Ethiopian)
1990 , Louis de Bernières, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts :It was not so much their Mongolian features that impressed everyone...
( now rare , offensive ) Relating to or affected with Down syndrome .
Alternative form: mongolian
1866 , John Langdon Haydon Down, Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff of the London Hospital , volume II:The Mongolian type of idiocy occurs in more than ten per cent. of the cases which are presented to me.
1965 , H. Eldon Sutton, An introduction to human genetics :The condition known as trisomy 21 syndrome or mongolian idiocy (sometimes referred to as Down's syndrome) had long been an enigma.
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures
Afrikaans: Mongools (af)
Albanian: mongolez m , mongoleze f
Arabic: مُغُولِيّ ( muḡūliyy )
Armenian: մոնղոլական (hy) ( monġolakan )
Aromanian: mungulescu m , munguleascã f
Azerbaijani:
Abjad: مغول ( maghūl )
Roman: monqol
Basque: mongoliar
Belarusian: манго́льскі ( manhólʹski )
Bengali: মঙ্গোলিআর ( moṅgōliar )
Bulgarian: монго́лски ( mongólski )
Burmese: မွန်ဂိုးလီးယား ( mwan-gui:li:ya: )
Buryat: монгол ( mongol )
Catalan: mongol (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蒙古的 (zh) ( Měnggǔ de )
Czech: mongolský (cs)
Danish: mongolsk
Dutch: Mongools (nl)
Estonian: mongoolia , mongoli (et)
Finnish: mongoli (fi) , mongolialainen (fi)
French: mongol (fr)
Galician: mongol (gl)
Georgian: მონღოლური (ka) ( monɣoluri )
German: mongolisch (de)
Greek: μογγολικός (el) ( mongolikós )
Hebrew: מוֹנְגּוֹלִי m ( mongoli ) , מוֹנְגּוֹלִית f ( mongolit )
Hindi: मंगोलियन (hi) ( maṅgoliyan ) , मंगोल (hi) m ( maṅgol )
Hungarian: mongol (hu)
Icelandic: mongólskur (is)
Irish: Mongólach
Italian: mongolo (it) m , mongola (it) f
Japanese: モンゴルの (ja) ( Mongoru no ) , 蒙古の ( もうこの, Mōko no )
Kalmyk: моңһл ( moñğl )
Kazakh: моңғол ( moñğol )
Korean: 몽골의 (ko) ( monggorui ) , 몽고의 (ko) ( monggoui )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mongolî (ku) , moxolî (ku)
Kyrgyz: монгол ( mongol ) , моңгол (ky) ( moŋgol )
Lao: ມົງໂກລີ ( mong kō lī )
Latin: mongolicus
Latvian: mongoļu
Lithuanian: mongoliškas , mongolų (lt)
Macedonian: монголски ( mongolski )
Malay: Mongolia (ms)
Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ ( monggo ) , ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ ᡳ ( monggo-i )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: монгол (mn) ( mongol )
Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ( moŋɣol )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mongolsk
Nynorsk: mongolsk (nn)
Orok: моңго кэсэни
Pashto: مغولي ( maǧwǝlí )
Persian: مغولی (fa) ( moğoli )
Polish: mongolski (pl)
Portuguese: mongol (pt) , mongólico
Romanian: mongol (ro) , mongolic (ro)
Russian: монго́льский (ru) ( mongólʹskij )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̀нго̄лски
Roman: mòngōlskī (sh)
Slovak: mongolský (sk)
Slovene: mongolski (sl)
Spanish: mongol (es)
Swedish: mongol (sv) -, mongolisk (sv)
Tagalog: Monggol (tl) , Monggolin , Munggolin
Tajik: муғулӣ (tg) ( muġulī )
Thai: มองโกเลีย (th) ( mɔng-goo-liia )
Tibetan: སོག་པོ ( sog po )
Turkish: Moğol (tr)
Turkmen: mongol
Tuvan: моол ( mool )
Ukrainian: монго́льський (uk) ( monhólʹsʹkyj ) , монґо́льський ( mongólʹsʹkyj )
Urdu: منگولی ( mongolī )
Uyghur: موڭغۇل ( mongghul )
Uzbek: mongol (uz) , moʻgʻul (uz)
Vietnamese: Mông Cổ (vi)
Xibe: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: монгуол ( monguol )
Yiddish: מאָנגאָליש ( mongolish )
resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the Mongoloid racial type
— see mongoloid
designating or affected with Down syndrome
— see Mongol
Noun
Mongolian (countable and uncountable , plural Mongolians )
( countable ) A native or inhabitant of Mongolia .
Synonym: Mongol
1757 , John Dyer, The fleece, a poem , published 1807 :The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian , round the bales In crowds resort.
1763 , John Bell, A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin :This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians , with their flocks.
1854 , Robert G. Latham, Orr's Circle of the sciences: Organic nature :The Mongolians are the most nomadic of populations.
1990 September 1, New Scientist :Mongolians now regard animal husbandry as a low-status occupation.
( uncountable ) A group of languages from Mongolia , specifically Khalkha , the official language of Mongolia .
1926 , Neville J. Whymant, A Mongolian Grammar :Khalka [ …] Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.
1987 , David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language :The Altaic family [ …] comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, Mongolian , and Manchu-Tungus.
1990 April, Orientations :These inscriptions are in Mongolian and thus widen the appliqué's international connections.
A person of the mongoloid physical type.
Synonym: mongoloid
1823 July, North American Revolution :A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
1903 February 8, The Truth , Sydney, page 3, column 4:She was found to be one of the type of white women whose nasal organs appear never to have been developed, and who take to the loathsome Mongolian and his filthy hovel as blithely as a plague rat to a sewer.
1938 , Franz Boas et al. , General Anthropology :Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians , and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.
1988 , Current Anthropology , volume 29 :The thesis of this work was that native Americans were one race distinct from Eskimos and Mongolians .
Related terms
Translations
native or inhabitant of Mongolia
Afrikaans: Mongool
Albanian: mongol (sq) m , mongole f
Arabic: مُنْغُولِيّ m ( munḡūliyy ) , مُنْغُولِيَّة f ( munḡūliyya ) , مُغُولِيّ m ( muḡūliyy ) , مُغُولِيَّة f ( muḡūliyya )
Armenian: մոնղոլ ( monġol )
Middle Armenian: (please verify ) ազգն նետողաց ( azgn netoġacʻ )
Aromanian: mungol m , mungolã f
Azerbaijani: monqol
Cyrillic: монгол
Basque: mongoliar
Belarusian: манго́л m ( manhól ) , манго́лка f ( manhólka )
Bulgarian: монго́лец m ( mongólec ) , монго́лка f ( mongólka )
Catalan: mongol (ca)
Chagatai: مونکغال ( mōn͜kğāl )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蒙古人 (zh) ( měnggǔrén )
Czech: Mongol (cs) m , Mongolka (cs) f
Danish: mongol c
Dutch: Mongool (nl) m , Mongoolse (nl) f
Esperanto: mongolo ( male or female ) , mongolino ( female )
Estonian: mongol , mongoollane
Finnish: mongolialainen (fi)
French: Mongol (fr) m , Mongole (fr) f
Georgian: მონღოლი ( monɣoli )
German: Mongole (de) m , Mongolin (de) f
Greek: Μόγγολος m ( Móngolos ) , Μογγόλα (el) f ( Mongóla )
Byzantine: Μουγούλιος m ( Mougoúlios )
Greenlandic: mongoli
Hebrew: מוֹנְגּוֹלִי m ( mongoli ) , מוֹנְגּוֹלִית f ( mongolít )
Hindi: मंगोल (hi) m ( maṅgol ) , मंगोलियन (hi) m ( maṅgoliyan ) , मँगोल (hi) m ( maṅgol ) , मगोल (hi) m ( magol ) , मुगल (hi) m ( mugal )
Hungarian: mongol (hu)
Icelandic: Mongóli m
Indonesian: orang Mongolia
Irish: Mongólach m
Italian: mongolo (it) m , mongola (it) f
Japanese: モンゴル人 (ja) ( モンゴルじん, mongorujin ) , 蒙古人 ( もうこじん, mōkojin )
Kalmyk: моңһл ( moñğl )
Kazakh: моңғол ( moñğol )
Arabic: مۇڭعول
Roman: moñğol
Khakas: моол ( mool )
Khmer: ម៉ុងហ្គោល (km) ( monggool )
Korean: 몽골 사람 ( monggol saram ) , 몽골인 ( monggorin ) , 몽고인(蒙古人) (ko) ( monggoin )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Moxol
Kyrgyz: моңгол (ky) ( moŋgol )
Latvian: mongolis m , mongoliete f
Lithuanian: mongolas (lt) m , mongolė (lt) f
Macedonian: Монголец m ( Mongolec ) , Монголка f ( Mongolka )
Malay: orang Mongolia
Manchu: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: монгол хүн ( mongol xün ) , монгол (mn) ( mongol )
Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠨ ( moŋɣol kümün ) , ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ( moŋɣol )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mongol m
Nynorsk: mongol (nn) m
Persian: مغول (fa) ( moğol )
Polish: Mongoł (pl) m , Mongołka (pl) f
Portuguese: mongol (pt) m or f
Romanian: mongol (ro) m , mongolă (ro) f
Russian: монго́л (ru) m ( mongól ) , монго́лка (ru) f ( mongólka )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Мо̀нго̄л m , Мо̀нго̄лка f
Roman: Mòngōl (sh) m , Mòngōlka f
Slovak: Mongol (sk) m , Mongolka f
Slovene: Mongol (sl) m , Mongolka f
Solon: mōnggōl
Southern Altai: монгол ( mongol ) , моҥол ( moŋol )
Spanish: mongol (es)
Swedish: mongol (sv) c , mongoliska (sv) c ( female )
Tagalog: Monggolyan , Mongolian
Tajik: муғул ( muġul )
Thai: คน มองโกเลีย ( kon mɔng-goo-liia ) , ชาว มองโกเลีย ( chaao mɔng-goo-liia )
Tibetan: སོག་པོ ( sog po )
Turkish: Moğol (tr)
Turkmen: mongol
Tuvan: моол ( mool )
Ukrainian: монго́л m ( monhól ) , монго́лка f ( monhólka )
Uyghur: موڭغۇل ( mongghul )
Cyrillic: моңғул ( mongghul )
Uzbek: moʻgʻul (uz)
Cyrillic: мўғул ( moʻgʻul )
Vietnamese: người Mông Cổ , dân Mông Cổ
Wutunhua: (please verify ) sokho
Xibe: please add this translation if you can
language of Mongolia
Abkhaz: Амонгол бызшәа ( Amongol bəzŝʷa )
Afrikaans: Mongools (af)
Amharic: ሞንጎልኛ ( mongolña )
Arabic: الْمُنْغُولِيَّة f ( al-munḡūliyya ) , مُنْغُولِيّ m ( munḡūliyy )
Aragonese: idioma mongol
Armenian: մոնղոլերեն (hy) ( monġoleren )
Asturian: idioma mongol
Azerbaijani: monqol dili
Balinese: Basa Mongol
Bashkir: Монгол теле ( Mongol tele )
Basque: mongoliera (eu)
Belarusian: манго́льская мо́ва f ( manhólʹskaja móva ) , манго́льская f ( manhólʹskaja )
Bengali: মঙ্গোলীয় ভাষা ( moṅgōliẏo bhaśa )
Bihari: मंगोलियन भाषा f ( maṅgoliyan bhāśā )
Breton: mongoleg f
Bulgarian: Монголски език ( Mongolski ezik )
Buryat: монгол хэлэн ( mongol xelen )
Catalan: mongol (ca) f
Chinese:
Hakka: Mùng-kú-ngî
Hokkien: Bông-kó͘-gí
Mandarin: 蒙古語 / 蒙古语 (zh) ( měnggǔyǔ )
Chuvash: монгол чӗлхи ( mongol č̬ĕlh̬i )
Czech: mongolština (cs) f
Danish: mongolsk
Daur: моңгул хэль ( moŋgul helʹ )
Dutch: Mongools (nl)
Esperanto: mongola lingvo sg
Estonian: mongoli keel
Fiji Hindi: mongolian bhasa
Finnish: mongoli (fi)
French: mongol (fr) m
Galician: mongol (gl)
German: Mongolisch (de)
Greek: μογγολικά (el) n pl ( mongoliká )
Hebrew: מוֹנְגּוֹלִית f ( mongolít )
Hindi: मंगोलियन (hi) f ( maṅgoliyan ) , मंगोलियाई (hi) f ( maṅgoliyāī )
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: mongólska (is) f
Indonesian: bahasa Mongolia
Irish: Mongóilis f
Italian: mongolico (it) m , mongolica f
Japanese: モンゴル語 (ja) ( モンゴルご, mongorugo ) , 蒙古語 ( もうこご, mōkogo )
Khmer: ភាសាម៉ុងហ្គោល ( phiəsaamonggool )
Korean: 몽골어 (ko) ( monggoreo ) , 몽고어(蒙古語) (ko) ( monggo'eo )
Malay: bahasa Mongolia
Manchu: ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ ( monggo gisun )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: монгол хэл ( mongol xel )
Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ ( moŋɣol kele )
Navajo: Chʼah diʼilii bizaad
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mongolsk m
Nynorsk: mongolsk (nn) m
Persian: مغولی (fa) ( moğuli )
Polish: mongolski (pl) m
Portuguese: mongol (pt) m
Romanian: mongolă (ro) f
Russian: монго́льский язы́к m ( mongólʹskij jazýk ) , монго́льский (ru) m ( mongólʹskij )
Slovak: mongolčina f
Slovene: mongolščina (sl) f
Spanish: mongol (es) m
Swahili: Kimongolia
Swedish: mongoliska (sv) c
Tagalog: Monggolyan , Mongolian
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ภาษา มองโกเลีย ( paa-sǎa mɔng-goo-liia )
Tibetan: སོག་པོའི་སྐད ( sog po'i skad )
Turkish: Moğolca (tr)
Ukrainian: монго́льска мо́ва f ( monhólʹska móva )
Uyghur: موڭغۇل تىلى ( mongghul tili ) , موڭغۇلچە ( mongghulche )
Vietnamese: tiếng Mông Cổ (vi)
Welsh: Mongoleg f
West Frisian: Mongoalsk
Xibe: please add this translation if you can
person of Mongoloid physical type
Translations to be checked
See also
Further reading
Finnish
Proper noun
Mongolian
genitive singular of Mongolia