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mongol | chingisid |

As a proper noun mongol

is a person from mongolia; a mongolian.

As an adjective chingisid is

pertaining to chingis (genghis) khan, or the mongol empire that he founded.

mongol

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • 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 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.}}
  • 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 .
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * Mongolia * Mongolian * mongolism * mongoloid * Golden Horde * Moghul

    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

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    chingisid

    English

    Adjective

    (-) (wikipedia Chingisid)
  • Pertaining to Chingis (Genghis) Khan, or the Mongol empire that he founded.

    • Usage notes

    * The Chingisid principle was the rule of inheritance laid down in the Yassa, the legal code attributed to Genghis Khan * A Chingisid prince was one who could trace direct descent from Genghis Khan in the male line, and who could therefore claim high respect in the Mongol and Turkic world. * The Chingisid states were the successor states or khanates after the Mongol empire broke up following the death of the Genghis Khan's sons and their successors. * Chingisid people describes the people of the Chingisid states who came in contact with Europeans, primarily the Golden Horde. These were predominantly Oghuz — Turkic speaking people rather than Mongols.