улас

Buryat

Comparison
Mongolian	улс (uls)
Buryat	улас (ulas)
Kalmyk	улс (uls)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus), from Middle Mongol ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ʾwɽwz /⁠ulus⁠/), from Common Turkic *uluš (“country, city”). Doublet of native улад (ulad, “people”) and Russian borrowing улус (ulus, “type of village”).

Compare Kalmyk улс (uls, “people; state”); Khamnigan Mongol улас (ulas, “people; country, state”), Mongolian улс (uls, “country, state; people”); Khakas улус (ulus, “people; close relatives; blood relatives of a married woman”), Tuvan улус (ulus, “people”), Southern Altai улус (ulus, “people; village”); Old Uyghur [script needed] ('wlwš /⁠uluš⁠/, “country”); etc,

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊ̞.läs/, [ʊ̞.lɐ̟s]
• Hyphenation: у‧лас

Noun

улас • (ulas) (^??? please provide spelling!)

1. country, state

   Буряад Улас ― Burjaad Ulas ― the Republic of Buryatia

2. people, nation

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• (state): гүрэн (güren)
• (country): орон (oron)
• (people): арад (arad), зон (zon), хүнүүд (xünüüd)

Derived terms

• олон уласай (olon ulasaj)
• улас орон (ulas oron)
• улас түрэ (ulas türe)

See also

• штат (štat, “[federal] state”)

Khamnigan Mongol

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus). Cognates include Mongolian улс (uls) and Buryat улас (ulas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ulɑs/
• Hyphenation: у‧лас

Noun

улас (ulas)

1. people, nation
2. country, state

References

• D. G. Damdinov, E. V. Sundueva (2015) “улас”, in Хамниганско-русский словарь [Khamnigan-Russian dictionary]‎^[1], Irkutsk