daur
daur noun: a foray or hasty expedition.
Noun (1)
daur (plural daurs)
- A foray or hasty expedition.
- I have just been out on a daur, in which I killed Murad Buksh, subahdar of the battery which fired on the boats at Cawnpore.1888, The Life and Opinions of Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, page 117
Noun (2) capitalized: Daur
Daur (plural Daurs or Daur)
- A member of an ethnic group (so-called ’nationality’) living in China’s Heilongjiang, Hulunbuir, and northern Xinjiang (Dzungaria), also historically Russia
- The language of the ethnic group, which belongs to the Mongolic language family.
Forms of daur
| plural | daurs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | dour |
| plural | Daurs |
| plural | Daur |
| alternative form | Dahur |
| alternative form | Daghor |
| alternative form | Daghur |
| alternative form | Dagor |
| alternative form | Dagur |
Origin of daur
Official Chinese GB 3304‐91 romanisation. Borrowed from Daur daur and Russian дау́ръ m anim sg (daúr, noun), alternative forms reflect Manchu ᡩᠠᡤᡡᡵ (dagūr), ᡩᠠᡥᡡᡵ (dahūr), and Classical Mongolian ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠷ (daɣur). The ethnonym has been considered to be originated from Khitan ⿰𘲆𘮒 (dau.úr /*dawur/, “middle, central”), a modifier used in the full name of the Liao empire.
Questions about daur
- What does daur mean?
- Daur means a foray or hasty expedition.
- What part of speech is daur?
- Daur is a noun.
- What is the plural of daur?
- The plural of daur is daurs.
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