tɔ꞉rag

Oroqen

Alternative forms

toorag

Etymology

From Mongolian тоос (toos, “dust”). Compare other Tungusic languages: Nanai бурэхи (burexi), Manchu ᠪᡠᡵᠠᡴᡳ (buraki), Evenki на̄мнэ (nāmnə).

Noun

tɔ꞉rag

dust

See also

ʃirgi (“sand”)
tʊkala (“soil, earth, dirt”)
tilbaka (“mud”)
tur (“land, earth”)

References

Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)

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