mongolian
/mɒŋˈɡoʊliən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the mongoloid racial type.
Dated
noun
A group of languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
Uncountable
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Mongolian (“relating to or affected with Down syndrome”).
Example Sentences
- "He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian custom lived in the devoted spiritual state."
- "The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward."
- "He usually had a heavy growth of dark stubble that made him look...rather like a Mongolian bandit."
- "The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America."
- "The white (or Caucasian), the yellow (or Mongolian), and the black (or Ethiopian)"
- "It was not so much their Mongolian features that impressed everyone..."
Etymology
Originally from Mongol + -ian, a translation (1706) of the German mongolisch, mongalisch. Subsequently, from the name of the country of Mongolia + -an.