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.

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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.

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