дүнгэр

Mongolian

Etymology

Not found in other Mongolian varieties.

Reminiscent of several Turkic drum words, such as (Oghuz) Karakhanid [script needed] (tümrüg) and Chagatai [Term?].

Alternatively, the word could be purely sound symbolic, with the noun deriving from the interjection instead of the reverse, if they even belong to the same root.

A shaman's drum in Mongolia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuŋɡər/

Noun

дүнгэр • (dünger)

1. shaman's drum

   Hypernym: хэнгэрэг (xengereg)

Interjection

дүнгэр • (dünger)

1. used to describe a distant and indistinct sound

See also

• бөө (böö, “shaman”)