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^[1], 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"‎^[2], 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.

Further reading

• Dzungar people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia