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Vogul

[voh-goo l]
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noun
  1. Mansi.

Origin of Vogul

1770–80; < Russian vogúl < Khanty wojal', wojat' Mansi
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Examples from the Web for vogul

Historical Examples

  • The Uralian range itself is the occupancy of the Vogul, and here the type changes.

    The Ethnology of Europe

    Robert Gordon Latham

  • A big Vogul and a little one, both dressed in reindeer skins, represent a reindeer-doe and its young.

British Dictionary definitions for vogul

Vogul

noun
  1. plural -gul or -guls a member of a people living in W Siberia and NE Europe
  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family: related to Hungarian
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