Kalmyk

Kal·myk

or Kal·muk

noun

pl. Kalmyk, or Kal·myks or Kalmuk or Kal·muks

A member of a traditionally Buddhist Mongol people now located primarily in Kalmykia.
The Mongolic language of this people.

Origin of Kalmyk

Russian from Kazan Tatar qalmïq

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KALMUCK, or Kalmyk Steppe, a territory or reservation belonging to the Kalmuck or Kalmyk Tatars, in the Russian government of Astrakhan, bounded by the Volga on the N.E., the Manych on the S.W., the Caspian Sea on the E., and the territory of the Don Cossacks on the N.W.
Researches in the Kalmyk Steppe in X884188 5 (St Petersburg, 1894, in Russian); Kostenkov's works (1868-1870); and other works quoted in Semenov's Geogr.

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