Kalmuk

Variant of Kalmuck

or Kalmuk

noun

  1. a member of a group of Mongolian peoples living chiefly in the lower Volga region and N Xinjiang
  2. the Mongolian language of these peoples
Also Kalmyk

Origin: prob. of Mongolian orig.

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