Daur

See also: daur and daur.

English
Two Daur men wrestling.
A Daur woman smiling.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Official Chinese GB 3304‐91 romanisation. Borrowed from Daur daur and Russian дау́ръ m anim sg (daúr, noun), alternative forms reflect Manchu ᡩᠠᡤᡡᡵ (dagūr), ᡩᠠᡥᡡᡵ (dahūr), and Classical Mongolian ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠷ (daɣur). The ethnonym has been considered to be originated from Khitan ⿰𘲆𘮒 (dau.úr /⁠*dawur⁠/, “middle, central”), a modifier used in the full name of the Liao empire.[1]

Pronunciation

daʊ'əɹ

Noun

Daur (plural Daurs or Daur)

  1. A member of an ethnic group (so-called ’nationality’) living in China’s Heilongjiang, Hulunbuir, and northern Xinjiang (Dzungaria), also historically Russia
  2. The language of the ethnic group, which belongs to the Mongolic language family.

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References
  1. Róna-Tas, András (2017 June 1) “Khitan Studies. I. The graphs of the Khitan Small Script. 2. The vowels”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎, volume 70, number 2, →DOI, pages 181–182

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