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? asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 8 years ago

What is the Mongolian word for "black"?

According to this site (http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/) the Mongolian word for "black" is "xar" ("xap"). Is this true?

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    8 years ago
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    exact.

    provided you know how th pronounce it: a rather rasping "harr", or in the transliteration used for Cyrillic: "kharr".

    Incidentally, these letters look the same as ours, but they sound differently: хар

    more examples:

    хар зах (khar zakh) black market

    хар тамхй (khar tamkhi) "black medicin"= drugs

    хар ажил (khar ajil) "black work" = hard work

    Source(s): been there
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