English
Tsagaan Khas
Tsagaan Khas comes from Mongolian Цагаан Хас.
- MongolianmodernЦагаан ХасCagaan Xas
- Englishearliest quotation 2010Tsagaan Khas
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- MongolianmodernЦагаан ХасCagaan Xas
- Englishearliest quotation 2010Tsagaan Khas
Earliest quotation: 2010, Tania Branigan, Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels rise of ul: “Groups such as Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, portray…”
A compound of цагаан ‘white’ + хас ‘swastika’
Proto-Mongolic *čagaxan
Middle Mongol ᠴᠠᠬᠠᠨ ‘white’
Classical Mongolian ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ‘white’
Mongolian цагаан ‘white’
Every English word from Mongolian Цагаан Хас
Today it means
name A Mongolian neo-Nazi organization founded by Ariunbold Altankhuum in 1990.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mongolian Цагаан Хас / Tsagaan Khas