ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ

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• Transcriptions:
  • Secret History: 荅来 (ta-lai /⁠dalai⁠/)
  • Muqaddimat al-Adab: دالای (dālāy /⁠dalai⁠/)
• IPA^(key): /dä.lä͜i/

ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai)

1. sea

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• > Buryat: далай (dalaj) (inherited)
• > Classical Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai) (inherited)
  • > Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai) (inherited)

    Cyrillic script: далай (dalaj)

• > Written Oirat: ᡑᠠᠯᠠᡅ (dalai) (inherited)
  • > Kalmyk: дала (dala) (inherited)

• “Mongolische Texte”, in Digitales Turfan-Archiv‎^[1] (in German), (Can we date this quote?)

ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ • (dalai)

1. ocean
2. brine, deep
3. dereliction
4. outing
5. surge