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kalmuck

kalmuck noun: a kind of shaggy cloth resembling bearskin.

Noun (1)

kalmuck (uncountable)

  1. A kind of shaggy cloth resembling bearskin.

Adjective capitalized: Kalmuck

Kalmuck (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of Kalmyk.

Noun (2) capitalized: Kalmuck

Kalmuck (plural Kalmucks)

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of Kalmyk.

Proper noun capitalized: Kalmuck

Kalmuck

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of Kalmyk.

Forms of kalmuck

pluralKalmucks

Origin of kalmuck

From Middle Polish Kałmuk m sg (noun), from Kipchak [Term?] (/⁠qalmaq⁠/), whence Kazakh қалмақ (qalmaq), Siberian Tatar ҡалмаҡ (qalmaq), etc.

Questions about kalmuck

What does kalmuck mean?
Kalmuck means a kind of shaggy cloth resembling bearskin.
What part of speech is kalmuck?
Kalmuck can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kalmuck?
The plural of kalmuck is Kalmucks.

Words near kalmuck in the dictionary

  1. Kalmenoff
  2. kalmia
  3. kalmias
  4. Kalmiuske
  5. Kalms
  6. kalmuck
  7. Kalmuckish
  8. Kalmucks
  9. Kalmunai
  10. Kalmyck
  11. Kalmycks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kalmuck (page history and authors); Kalmuck (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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