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Mongolian vs Tugrik - What's the difference?

mongolian | tugrik |

As nouns the difference between mongolian and tugrik

is that mongolian is a native or inhabitant of mongolia = mongol while tugrik is the mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated mnt, ₮; formerly subdivided into 100.

As an adjective mongolian

is of or relating to mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures = mongol.

mongolian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures = Mongol.
  • * 1706 - Evert Y. Ides: Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China ...
    • He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian custom lived in the devoted spiritual state.
  • * 1878 - Encyclopedia Britannica , ninth edition, volume XVI
    • The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward.
  • * 1985 - Robert Whelan: Robert Capa: A Biography
    • He usually had a heavy growth of dark stubble that made him look...rather like a Mongolian bandit.
  • Anthropology . Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the Mongoloid]] racial type = [[mongoloid, Mongoloid.
  • * 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...
  • Designating or affected with Down syndrome = Mongol.
    • Spelling': Also ' mongolian .
  • * 1866 - John Langdon Haydon Down in 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

    {{der3, Mongolian gazelle , Mongolian gerbil , Mongolian lamb , Mongolian pheasant , Mongolian spot , Mongolian wild ass}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Mongolia = Mongol.
  • * 1757 , John Dyer: The fleece, a poem (published in 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, in 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.
  • A group of Altaic 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 Mongoloid physical type; a Mongoloid.
  • * 1823 July, North American Revolution :
    • A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
  • * 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 .

    See also

    * (mn) * *

    Related terms

    * Mongol * Mongolia * Mongoloid

    External links

    * Biggest Mongolian-English / English Mongolian Dictionary * Mongolian-English Dictionary * Mongolian language resources * Classical Mongolian Dictionary * . It's a family or related languages. The individual ones are: * *

    tugrik

    English

    (wikipedia tugrik)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated MNT, ?; formerly subdivided into 100 .

    • Usage notes

    Tugrik is the transliteration used in the standard for currency names, and is therefore widely used in business and banking. CIA World Factbook also recognizes togrog'', and Wikipedia has chosen ''tögrög as the main entry.

    Synonyms

    * togrog *