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plural Dzungars or Dzungar
A member of a western Mongol people that were one of the four major tribes that made up the Oirats. quotations examples
The Western Mongols, and especially the Dzungars, though defeated in their eastward expansion, continued to be a source of disorder in the far northwest.
1960, Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank, East Asia: The Great Tradition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 359
comparative more Dzungar, superlative most Dzungar
Of or pertaining to the Dzungar people. quotations examples
Peking, seeking allies in its conflict with the Dzungar khanate, thought of engaging the Torguts living in refuge on the Volga under the leadership of Ayuka Khan.
1971, O. Edmund Clubb, China and Russia: The "Great Game", Columbia University Press, page 39