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

Kalmuck
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.
Etymology: Russ. kalmyk

kalmuck
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.
Etymology: Russ. kalmyk

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.