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5 definitions found for kalmuck
Kalmuck or Kalmuk or Kalmyk noun Etymology: Russian kalmyk, from Volga Tatar kalmık Date: 1613 1. a member of a Buddhist Mongol people originally of Dzungaria living mainly northwest of the Caspian Sea in Russia 2. the Mongolian language of the Kalmucks
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Kalmuck ˈkælmʌk adj. & n. --adj. of a Buddhist Mongolian people living in the western USSR. --n. 1 a member of this people. 2 the Ural-Altaic language of this people. [Russ. kalmyk]
Kalmuck Kal"muck, n. 1. pl. (Ethnol.) See Calmucks. 2. A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin. 3. A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia. |
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