English Explanatory Dictionary

somon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Alternative form of sum (“Mongolian administrative division”), particularly in relation to Buryatia, Russia.

Word forms

somon somons

Etymology

From Russian сомон (somon), from Buryat сомон (somon), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).

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