Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kurultai

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables: ku-rul-tai
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A political and military council of ancient Mongol and Turkic chiefs and khans.

Etymology

Borrowed from Mongolian хуралдай (xuraldaj) via Russian курулта́й (kurultáj).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: хуралдай, курулта́й

Inflected Forms

kurultais (plural)

Questions

What does kurultai mean?: A political and military council of ancient Mongol and Turkic chiefs and khans.
Where does kurultai come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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