Moghul vs Mongol - What's the difference?
moghul | mongol |
A head of the Mongolian dynasty founded by Zah?r-ud-D?n Muhammed B?bur (1483-1530) which controlled large parts of southern Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
A Mongol or Mongolian, especially a member or follower of the Moghul dynasty.
An important or successful person; a magnate. (Now usually as (mogul))
A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
(offensive) (usually mongol ) A person with Down's syndrome.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th Century. The mongol Empire stretched from the Eastern seas of China to the gates of Vienna.
* Mathew Paris Chron. Maj. iv.76ff, Translated from The journey of William Rubruck (Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no.4; 1900) pp. xv-xvi .
Moghul is a related term of mongol.
moghul
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Alternative forms
* Mogor * Mogul * MughalNoun
(en noun)See also
* mogulmongol
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)citation, passage=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.}}
- They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron short, stout, thickset, strong, invincible, indefatigable, their backs unprotected, their breasts covered with armour...They have one-edged swords and daggers and spare neither age, nor sex nor condition.
