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Meaning of "Tungusian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TUNGUSIAN

Tungusian  [tʊŋˈɡʊsɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUNGUSIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tungusian is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TUNGUSIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tungusian

Tungusic peoples

Tungusic peoples are the peoples who speak Tungusic languages. They inhabit Eastern Siberia and are often contrasted with Mongols. The first European description of the Tungusic people was by the Dutch traveller Isaac Massa in 1612.

Definition of Tungusian in the English dictionary

The definition of Tungusian in the dictionary is of or relating to a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia. Other definition of Tungusian is of or relating to the language of this people, belonging to the Tungusic branch of the Altaic family.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TUNGUSIAN


Albigensian
ˌælbɪˈdʒɛnsɪən
Cappadocian
ˌkæpəˈdəʊsɪən
ceratopsian
ˌsɛrəˈtɒpsɪən
Circassian
sɜːˈkæsɪən
enzian
ˈɛntsɪən
Gaussian
ˈɡaʊsɪən
halcyon
ˈhælsɪən
Hertzian
ˈhɜːtsɪən
hessian
ˈhɛsɪən
Joycean
ˈdʒɔɪsɪən
laodicean
ˌleɪəʊdɪˈsɪən
Lucian
ˈluːsɪən
Lycian
ˈlɪsɪən
Marxian
ˈmɑːksɪən
Ossian
ˈɒsɪən
Piscean
ˈpaɪsɪən
Premonstratensian
ˌpriːˌmɒnstrəˈtɛnsɪən
Procyon
ˈprəʊsɪən
Waldensian
wɒlˈdensɪən
Wodehousian
ˌwʊdˈhaʊsɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUNGUSIAN

Tungting
Tungus
Tungusic
Tunguska
tunic
tunica
tunicate
tunicin
tunicked
tunicle
tuning
tuning fork
tuning key
tuning knob
Tunis
Tunisia
Tunisian

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUNGUSIAN

Andalusian
Asian
banausian
Belarusian
Carthusian
Caucasian
Drusian
Heteroousian
heterousian
Homoiousian
Homoousian
Homousian
Indonesian
Malaysian
Malthusian
Persian
Russian
Senusian
Susian
Venusian

Synonyms and antonyms of Tungusian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Tungusian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUNGUSIAN

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The translations of Tungusian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Tungusian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Tungusian
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Tungusian
570 millions of speakers

English

Tungusian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Tungusian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Tungusian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Tungusian
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Tungusian
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Tungusian
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Tungusian
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tungusian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tungusischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Tungusian
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Tungusian
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tungusian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Tungusian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Tungusian
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टंगसियान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tungusian
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Tungusian
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Tungusian
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Tungusian
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tungusian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Tungusian
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Tungusian
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Tungusian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Tungusian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Tungusian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUNGUSIAN»

The term «Tungusian» is used very little and occupies the 174.462 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUNGUSIAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Tungusian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUNGUSIAN»

Discover the use of Tungusian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Tungusian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America
Eastward through that important territory, which lies on each fide of the river * Amoor- They soon reduced several independent Tungusian hordes ; and built a chain ^"'1 of small fortresses - along the banks of the above -men- tioned river, ...
William Coxe, 1780
2
The reindeer and its domestication
The Tungusian name for the " reindeer," oron, has no connection with Russian olen', or vice versa, as asserted by Schlegel. Russian olen' is an old Indo- European word connected with Lithuanian elnis, alnis; Lettic alnis, Old Prussian alne, ...
Berthold Laufer, 1917
3
Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: History of ...
The languages spoken by tribes of the Tungusian race are divided into six branches : the principal of these are, — 1, the dialect of the Mandshoos : this has long been written in alphabetic characters ; it is known grammatically to European ...
James Cowles Prichard, 1844
4
The World's History: Oceania, Eastern Asia and the Indian Ocean
The uncultured Tungusian inhabitants of the shores of the Pacific, mere tribes of fishermen, took no part in political organisation, while the southern and settled Tungusians in Liautuug, which had even then a strong admixture of Chinese blood ...
Hans Ferdinand Helmolt, Viscount James Bryce Bryce, 1904
5
Proceedings of the Philological Society
Ava, Burmese, Tungusian dialect. ami. . . . father : Tungusian (on the Yenisei) and several other dialects. Gurung(India), Lepcha. minna. . Faiiti. minnee . Burum ( Africa). mauha. . Angola or Bunda. mur. . . . Aifghan. mair ..Armenian. mairi .
Philological Society (London), 1854
6
Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: 4
The languages spoken by tribes of the Tungusian race are divided into six branches : the principal of these are,— l, the dialect of the Mandshoos: this has long been written in alphabetic characters ; it is known grammatically to European ...
James Cowles Prichard, 1844
7
American Anthropologist
This certainly is a loan-word received from Tungusian,4 but it is not necessary to assume that the change of the initial I or 5 into the palatal explosive surd is due to the Gilyak; for this alternation is common within Tungusian, so that a Tungusian ...
‎1917
8
Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian ...
In the northern or Tungusian group, the formal mark of the "known" or identified object is -VA.W Scholars of Tungusian used to term this morpheme as the ending of direct (definite) objective case. For example, (4) atirkdn uleren ulleve 'the old ...
L. Dezso, Edited by László Dezso and Péter Hajdú, P. Hajdu, 1970
9
History of the Asiatic nations. 3d ed. 1844
The languages spoken by tribes of the Tungusian race are divided into six branches : the principal of these are, — 1 , the dialect of the Mandshoos : this has long been written in alphabetic characters ; it is known grammatically to European ...
James Cowles Prichard, 1844
10
Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the ...
The last of the so-called Tartar dynasties that conquered China, the dynasty that, at the present moment, rules the Celestial Empire, the dynasty attacked by the present rebels, is a Tungusian dynasty. Speaking specifically, the present ruling ...
William Somerville Orr, Richard Owen, Robert Gordon Latham, 1854

REFERENCE
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