мөрөн

See also: Appendix:Variations of "moron"

Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ
(mören)
мөрөн
(mörön)
Comparison
Mongolian мөрөн (mörön)
Buryat мүрэн (müren)
Kalmyk мөрн (mörn)

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ (mören, “big river”), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ (mören, “river”), Proto-Mongolic *mören (“river, sea”). Cognate with Dongxiang moron, etc. Semantically compare to Chinese 江 (jiāng) and Manchu ᡠᠯᠠ (ula).

Pronunciation

Noun

мөрөн • (mörön)

  1. a big river flowing into a big lake or a sea
    Сэлэнгэ мөрөн ― Selenge mörön ― the Selenga River, flowing into Lake Baikal
    Хар мөрөн ― Xar mörön ― the Amur River, flowing into the Strait of Tartary (literally, “the Black River”)
    Шар мөрөн ― Šar mörön ― the Yellow River, flowing into the Bohai Sea
    Хөх мөрөн ― Xöx mörön ― the Yangtze River, flowing into the Yellow Sea (literally, “the Blue River”)

Declension

See also

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