Definitions for Tungus

Tungus Tun·gus

Spelling: [too ng-gooz]
IPA: /tʊŋˈguz/

Tungus is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in Tungus (gnstuu).

Definitions for Tungus

noun

  1. Evenki.
  2. any member of a Tungusic-speaking people.

Origin of Tungus

1620-30; ≪ Russian tungús, probably Tatar, a formation with the Turkic suffix *-guz, used in ethnic names; identity of 1st element obscure

Examples for Tungus

Sometimes a wizard expects no fee unless he is successful, as among the Tungus, Yakut and Buryats.

In southern and central Manchuria were remnants of the Tungus Juchên.

Daur is, in fact, the name applied by the Buryats to all the Tungus peoples of the Amur basin.

Yet none of this was accompanied by the gaiety and animation which usually prevails among the Tungus on such occasions.

He was a stout man of possibly fifty years of age, unlike a Tungus, and dressed like a Yakut, with a silver Yakut belt.

But the great bulk of the Tungus nation are still Shamanists.

Yet I too am a Tungus;—what would anyone gain from my accursed debts?

Reasons have already been advanced for supposing that the Chukchi were a Tungus people who came originally from the Amur basin.

The alien rulers were first the Mongols, and later the Tungus Manchus.

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