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orda

orda noun: a political and military organizational structure used by Turkic and Mongol peoples, sometimes referred to as a horde.

Noun

orda (plural ordas)

  1. (historical) A political and military organizational structure used by Turkic and Mongol peoples, sometimes referred to as a horde.

Forms of orda

pluralordas
alternative formordu
alternative formordo
alternative formordon

Origin of orda

From Russian орда́ (ordá) and other sources, all ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu. Doublet of horde (which see for more) and Urdu.

Questions about orda

What does orda mean?
Orda means a political and military organizational structure used by Turkic and Mongol peoples, sometimes referred to as a horde.
What part of speech is orda?
Orda is a noun.
What is the plural of orda?
The plural of orda is ordas.

Words near orda in the dictionary

  1. orculids
  2. Orcus
  3. Orcutt
  4. ord
  5. Ord of Caithness
  6. orda
  7. ordain
  8. ordainable
  9. ordained
  10. ordainee
  11. ordainees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orda (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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