улас

Buryat

Comparison
Mongolian улс (uls)
Buryat улас (ulas)
Kalmyk улс (uls)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus), from Middle Mongol ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ʾwɽwz /⁠ulus⁠/), from Proto-Common Turkic *uluš (country, city). Doublet of native улад (ulad, people) and Russian borrowing улус (ulus, type of village).

Compare Kalmyk улс (uls, people; state); Khamnigan Mongol улас (ulas, people; country, state), Mongolian улс (uls, country, state; people); Khakas улус (ulus, people; close relatives; blood relatives of a married woman), Tuvan улус (ulus, people), Southern Altai улус (ulus, people; village); Old Uyghur [script needed] ('wlwš /⁠uluš⁠/, country); etc,

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊləs/, [ʊ̞́ləs]
  • Hyphenation: у‧лас

Noun

улас • (ulas) (??? please provide spelling!)

  1. country, state
    Буряад УласBurjaad Ulasthe Republic of Buryatia
  2. people, nation

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

  • (state): гүрэн (güren)
  • (country): орон (oron)
  • (people): арад (arad), зон (zon), хүнүүд (xünüüd)

Derived terms

  • олон уласай (olon ulasaj)
  • улас орон (ulas oron)
  • улас түрэ (ulas türe)

See also

Khamnigan Mongol

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus). Cognates include Mongolian улс (uls) and Buryat улас (ulas).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ulɑs/
  • Hyphenation: у‧лас

Noun

улас (ulas)

  1. people, nation
  2. country, state

References

  • D. G. Damdinov, E. V. Sundueva (2015) “улас”, in Хамниганско-русский словарь [Khamnigan-Russian dictionary]‎[1], Irkutsk