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Buryat

American  
[boor-yaht, boor-ee-aht, boo-ryaht] / bʊərˈjɑt, ˌbʊər iˈɑt, buˈrjɑt /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Republic of Buryatia, its people, or their language.


noun

  • Buryats,
    plural
  • Buryat
    plural
  1. a member of any of the Mongol people in the Republic of Buryatia.

  2. the Mongolian language of the Buryat.

Buryat British  
/ bʊəˈjɑːt, bʊərɪˈɑːt /

noun

  1. a member of a Mongoloid people living chiefly in the Buryat Republic

  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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By the time he was recruited into the army he was in his final year at the Buryat Republican Technical School of Construction.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

According to Yekaterina Morland, an ethnic Buryat volunteer at the Asians of Russia Foundation, Buryatia has seen mobilization rates up to six times higher than Russia’s European regions.

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2022

Eventually, a serviceman she believed to be an ethnic Buryat from Siberia offered to let her speak to someone he said knew the full story.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2022

Yevgenia Baltatarova, an independent Buryat journalist from Ulan-Ude, in Siberia, spoke to me from Kazakhstan.

From New York Times Mar. 17, 2022

In the eastern Siberian republic of Buryat, he visited and became the first American to photograph the isolated Buryat Buddhist monastery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buryats, a Mongol ethnic group indigenous to Buryatia, in eastern Siberia, traditionally follow Buddhist and shamanic belief systems.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2022

“We’re going to stay here for a long time,” the Buryats told my aunt.

From Washington Post Nov. 11, 2022

One third of the roughly 1 million people of Buryatia, which shares a border with Mongolia, are ethnic Buryats and mostly of the Buddhist faith.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2022

It is hard to see how these demonstrations speak to a country made up of more than 100 ethnic groups, including Muslim Tatars and Chechens, as well as Buddhist Buryats.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2013

Indeed the very word Shaman is of Tungus origin, though current also amongst the Buryats and Yakuts.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

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