Nogai

American  

[noh-gahy] / ˈnoʊ gaɪ /

Or Nogay

noun

plural

Nogais,

plural

Nogai

1. a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.

2. the Turkic language of the Nogai people.

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Example Sentences

Bulgarov's family home is in the village of Ikon-Khalk, a settlement of the Nogai people, a Turkic ethnic group.

From Reuters

The opening number, for three men, was inspired by the Kalmyks, who until recently lived as nomads on the Nogai Steppe near the mouth of the Volga; it’s easy to feel that it suggests eagles in flight and horses running.

From New York Times

He also brought with him imperial orders for Han Tatar Nogai to collect some troops with which to come to his aid.

From Project Gutenberg

The younger Læstadius frequently notices the tjäder, in his very remarkable account of the Swedish Laplanders—a work wholly unsurpassed as a genial picture of semi-barbarian life, and not inferior in minuteness of detail to Schlatter's description of the manners of the Nogai Tartars, or even to Lane's admirable and exhaustive work on the Modern Egyptians.

From Project Gutenberg

Prince Yeremi began that engagement; and he was seen in front of the entire left wing as, armorless and bareheaded, he swept like a hurricane over the field against those gigantic legions, formed of all the mounted heroes of the Zaporojie, and all the Tartars,--Crimean, Nogai, and B�lgorod,--of Silistrian and Rumelian Turks, Urumbalis, Janissaries, Serbs, Wallachians, Periotes, and other wild warriors assembled from the Ural, the Caspian, and the swamps of M�otis to the Danube.

From Project Gutenberg