мөрөн
See also: Appendix:Variations of "moron"
Mongolian
| Mongolian | Cyrillic |
|---|---|
| ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ (mören) | мөрөн (mörön) |
| Comparison | |
|---|---|
| Mongolian | мөрөн (mörön) |
| Buryat | мүрэн (müren) |
| Kalmyk | мөрн (mörn) |
Etymology
From Classical Mongolian ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ (mören, “big river”), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠦᠷᠡᠨ / 沐舌慩河 (“river”), from Proto-Mongolic *mören (“river, sea”), *müren. Cognate with Dongxiang moron, etc. Semantically compare to Chinese 江 (jiāng) and Manchu ᡠᠯᠠ (ula).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɵrɵŋ/
- Syllabification: мө‧рөн (2 syllables)
Noun
мөрөн • (mörön)
- a big river flowing into a big lake or a sea
- Сэлэнгэ мөрөн ― Selenge mörön ― the Selenga River, flowing into Lake Baikal
- Хар мөрөн ― Xar mörön ― the Amur River, flowing into the Strait of Tartary (literally, “the Black River”)
- Шар мөрөн ― Šar mörön ― the Yellow River, flowing into the Bohai Sea
- Хөх мөрөн ― Xöx mörön ― the Yangtze River, flowing into the Yellow Sea (literally, “the Blue River”)
Declension
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Derived terms
proverbs
- мөрөн голыг ховоогоор ширгээж болдоггүй, огторгуйн солонгыг уургаар барьж болдоггүй (mörön golyg xovoogoor širgeež boldoggüj, ogtorgujn solongyg uurgaar barʹž boldoggüj)
- мөрөнд ойр нь усандаа сайн, ууланд ойр нь хадандаа сайн (mörönd ojr nʹ usandaa sajn, uuland ojr nʹ xadandaa sajn)
See also
- гол (gol, “a river”)
Descendants
- → Turkish: Müren (learned)
Further reading
- Большой академический монгольско–русский словарь в четырех томах [Great Academic Mongolian–Russian Dictionary in four volumes] (in Russian), Institute of Language and Literature of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences & Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001, page 512
- мөрөн in Болор толь (Bolor tolʹ, “Bolor Dictionary”)