Dzungar

Dzungar

English

Alternative forms

• Dzunghar, Dzhungar, Dzhunghar, Zungar, Zunghar, Zhungar, Zhunghar, Dsungar, Djungar

Noun

Dzungar (plural Dzungars or Dzungar)

1. A member of a western Mongol people that were one of the four major tribes that made up the Oirats.
   • 1960, Edwin O. Reischauer; John K. Fairbank, East Asia: The Great Tradition‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 359:

     The Western Mongols, and especially the Dzungars, though defeated in their eastward expansion, continued to be a source of disorder in the far northwest.

Derived terms

• Dzungaria

 

Translations

tribe

Chinese: Mandarin: 準噶爾／准噶尔 (zh) (Zhǔngá'ěr) Mongolian: зүүнгар (züüngar)

person

Chagatai: جونغار‎ (jūnğār) Chinese: Mandarin: 準噶爾人／准噶尔人 (Zhǔngá'ěrrén) Kalmyk: зүн һар (zün ğar) Kazakh: Arabic: جوڭعار‎ (jongĝar) Cyrillic: жоңғар (joñğar) Latin: jońǵar Manchu: ᠵᡠᠨ ᡤᠠᡵ (jun gar) Mongolian: Cyrillic: зүүнгар (züüngar) Mongolian: ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ ᠭᠠᠷ (ǰegün ɣar) Spanish: zúngaro m Uyghur: Arabic: جۇڭغار‎ (jungghar) Cyrillic: җуңғар (jungghar) Uzbek: Cyrillic: жунғор (jungʻor) Latin: jungʻor Written Oirat: ᠴᡈᡉᠨ ᡎᠠᠷ (zöün ɣar)

Adjective

Dzungar (comparative more Dzungar, superlative most Dzungar)

1. Of or pertaining to the Dzungar people.
   • 1971, O. Edmund Clubb, China and Russia: The "Great Game"‎, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     Peking, seeking allies in its conflict with the Dzungar khanate, thought of engaging the Torguts living in refuge on the Volga under the leadership of Ayuka Khan.