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ger
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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger)/ᠭᠡᠷ (ger).
Pronunciation
Noun
ger (plural gers)
- A yurt.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 133:
- The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.
- 2016 November 11, Zahra Jamshed and Stella Ko, “Beyond the yurt: Mongolian life caught on camera”, in CNN, spoken by Paul Cox:
- In weather conditions that hit -20 degrees or lower, people in the poorer areas of the city have no access to running water, no access to bathroom facilities, often living in little “yurts” or “gers” on dirt roads.
Translations
yurt — see yurt
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּר (ger).
Noun
ger (plural gerim)
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