dzud
/(d)zuːd/
dzud noun: an ecological crisis in the steppe-land of Mongolia and Central Asia causing loss of livestock, for example a drought, or a severe winter in which snow or ice block animals' access to the grass.
Noun
dzud (plural dzuds)
- An ecological crisis in the steppe-land of Mongolia and Central Asia causing loss of livestock, for example a drought, or a severe winter in which snow or ice block animals' access to the grass.
- But the country [Mongolia] is currently experiencing a "dzud" – when a summer drought followed by a severe winter decimates the grazing areas.2010 April 7, Linda Pressly, “Mongolia on verge of mineral boom”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2015
- Because migration distances are increasingly limited, people are increasingly vulnerable to various kinds of harsh winter or zud […] that can devastate herd populations and herder livelihoods.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3
Forms of dzud
| plural | dzuds |
|---|---|
| alternative form | zud |
Origin of dzud
Borrowed from Mongolian зуд (zud)/ᠵᠤᠳ (ǰud).
Words that rhyme with dzud
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- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about dzud
- What does dzud mean?
- Dzud means an ecological crisis in the steppe-land of Mongolia and Central Asia causing loss of livestock, for example a drought, or a severe winter in which snow or ice block animals' access to the grass.
- What part of speech is dzud?
- Dzud is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dzud?
- Dzud is pronounced /(d)zuːd/.
- What is the plural of dzud?
- The plural of dzud is dzuds.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dzud (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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