Mongol
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ (mongqol). The sense of person with Down syndrome stems from the observation that individuals with this condition frequently exhibit a prominent epicanthic fold, a feature commonly observed among individuals of East Asian ancestry.
Inflected forms:
form: Mongols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mongal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more Mongol
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Mongol
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Mongal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Mongolic ethnic group native to Mongolia.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with Down syndrome.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
offensive
examples: 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.
gloss: A member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club of California, United States.
pos: noun
gloss: A Turk, particularly in political or Internet discourse by certain neighbors (such as in Greece or the Caucasus) and within Turkey by opponents to suggest a lack of civilization or, in some contexts, to mock the genetic and historical ties between the Turkic and Mongolic peoples.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
examples: —You are malaka! [a wanker] —Malaka goat anan! [is your goat mother!] —Malaka OLOLOLO! —[Answers in Turkish] Malaka goat anandır! [Malaka is your goat mother!] —Mongol! —[Answers in Turkish] Hassiktir ben Türküm! [Fuck you, I am Turkish!]
gloss: Synonym of Mongolian.
pos: adj
examples: THE following fables are selected from a number which a Mongol teacher dictated in his attempts to familiarise a foreigner with the language of Mongolia. It will be seen at a glance that most of them are not native to the country, but come from a laud abounding with sights and scenes unknown to Mongolia. One or two of them, though, have a very Mongol look about them, and doubtless a good many of them have adopted more or less of a Mongol dress.
While the social system could thus be improved, [G. Stanley] Hall knew that heredity was more important. He argued that a pound of heredity was “worth a hundredweight of education.” It was necessary to pay attention to better breeding: “The nation that breeds best, be it Mongol, Slav, Teuton or Saxon, will rule the world in the future.”
An old woman with a very Mongol face, a bright Uzbek print dress and a shopping bag, got off at every stop and back on again.
This topping for Iranian bread (or its Chinese derivative shaobing) is truly unique. We know of nothing like it anywhere else. It is also very different from anything else in the YSZY. A very Mongol flavor is implied, if it is not a straight borrowing from nomadic Turks. The “Iranian cakes” are Persian bread (nan), still a staple food in Ningxia and Xinjiang. In the Chinese Islamic Restaurant, a Ningxia Hui restaurant near Los Angeles, we have eaten similar stews with their incomparable nan–style bread. This particular stew, however, is one of the YSZY’s amazing, unique, and creative blendings of Mongol, Near Eastern, and Chinese elements (cf. recipes # 21–23, etc.).
Related words: Moghul
Mongolia
Mongolian
mongolism
mongoloid
Golden Horde
Derived words: Mongolist
Mongolistics
Turco-Mongol
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