English

Noun

Mongol ‎(plural Mongols)

1. A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
2. A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
3. (dated, now offensive) (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess:

     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.

4. A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th Century. The Mongol Empire stretched from the Eastern seas of China to the gates of Vienna.
   • Mathew Paris Chron. Maj. iv.76ff, Translated from The journey of William Rubruck (Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no.4; 1900) pp. xv-xvi.

     They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron short, stout, thickset, strong, invincible, indefatigable, their backs unprotected, their breasts covered with armour...They have one-edged swords and daggers and spare neither age, nor sex nor condition.

5. A member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club of California, United States.

Related terms

• Mongolia
• Mongolian
• mongolism
• mongoloid
• Golden Horde
• Moghul

Translations

References

• 1992 Webster's New World Encyclopedia. Prentice Hall
• 1970 R C H Davis A History of Medieval Europe. Longman SBN 582 48208 9. P404 et. seq.

Anagrams

• glom on

Czech

Noun

Mongol m

1. Mongolian, Mongol

Declension

Related terms

• Mongolsko
• mongolština

French

Noun

Mongol m ‎(plural Mongols, feminine Mongole)

1. Mongolian (person)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒnɡoːl/
• Hyphenation: Mon‧gol

Proper noun

Mòngōl m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Мо̀нго̄л)

1. Mongolian (person)

Declension

Catalan

Adjective

mongol m ‎(feminine mongola, masculine plural mongols, feminine plural mongoles)

1. Mongolian

Noun

mongol m ‎(plural mongols, feminine mongola)

1. Mongolian

Related terms

• Mongòlia

French

Adjective

mongol m ‎(feminine singular mongole, masculine plural mongols, feminine plural mongoles)

1. Mongolian

Noun

mongol m ‎(uncountable)

1. Mongolian language
2. Mongol (idiot)

Related terms

• Mongolie
• mongolien

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoŋɡol]
• Hyphenation: mon‧gol

Adjective

mongol (not comparable)

1. Mongolian (of or relating to Mongolia, its people or language)

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

mongol ‎(plural mongolok)

1. Mongolian (person)
2. (singular only) Mongolian (language)

Declension

Related terms

• Mongólia

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From mongolsk

Noun

mongol m ‎(definite singular mongolen, indefinite plural mongoler, definite plural mongolene)

1. a Mongolian (person from Mongolia)

Related terms

• Mongolia
• mongolsk

References

• “mongol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From mongolsk

Noun

mongol m ‎(definite singular mongolen, indefinite plural mongolar, definite plural mongolane)

1. a Mongolian (person from Mongolia)

Related terms

• Mongolia
• mongolsk

References

• “mongol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mogol (obsolete)

Etymology

From Mongolian монгол ‎(mongol).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõ.ˈɡɔw/

Noun

mongol m f (plural mongóis)

1. Mongolian (native or inhabitant of Mongolia)
2. (uncountable) Mongolian (language)

Adjective

mongol ‎(plural mongóis, not comparable)

1. Mongolian (of Mongolia)
2. Mongolian (of the Mongolian language)

Synonyms

• (of Mongolia): mongólico, mongolino
• (of the Mongolian language): mongólico

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French mongol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moŋˈgol/

Noun

mongol m ‎(plural mongoli, feminine equivalent mongolă)

1. Mongolian

Adjective

mongol m, n ‎(feminine singular mongolă, masculine plural mongoli, feminine and neuter plural mongole)

1. Mongolian

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moŋ.ˈɰol]
• Rhymes: -ol

Adjective

mongol m ‎(feminine singular mongola, masculine plural mongoles, feminine plural mongolas)

1. Mongolian (of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures)

Noun

mongol m ‎(plural mongoles, feminine mongola)

1. Mongol, Mongolian (person)

mongol m ‎(uncountable)

1. Mongolian language
2. idiot

Tagalog

Etymology

From a well-known brand name of pencils, registered as a trademark on August 23, 1949.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoŋ.ɡol/

Noun

mongol

1. pencil

Synonyms

• lapis (the more correct and recommended term)