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амтан

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Dolgan

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Noun

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амтан (amtan)

  1. taste

Even

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Noun

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амтан (amtan)

  1. taste

Nanai

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Noun

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амтан (amtan)

  1. taste

Yakut

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Manchu ᠠᠮᡨᠠᠨ (amtan), from a Mongolic language, compare Mongolian амт (amt).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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амтан (amtan)

  1. taste (of food)
    мунна сыты билбэт, айаҕа амтаны билбэт
    munna sıtı bilbet, ayağa amtanı bilbet
    his nose does not know the smell, and his mouth does not know the taste
    (proverb)

Further reading

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  • von Böhtlingk, Otto (1851) “амтан”, in Über die Sprache der Jakuten: Grammatik, Text und Wörterbuch. [On the Language of the Yakuts: Grammar, Text and Dictionary] (Dr. A. Th. Middendorff's Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibirens)‎[1] (in German), volume II, St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, column 7