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Definition of Tungus
1. Noun. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia; related to the Manchu.
2. Noun. The Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia.
Definition of Tungus
1. Noun. Any of a group of roving Turanian tribes in Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley, who speak Tungusic languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tungus
Literary usage of Tungus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Royal Canadian Institute, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) (1898)
"Some give themselves the name Donki, people, whence the name tungus appears to
have arisen. * * However this may be, it is acknowledged without ..."
2. Descriptive Ethnology by Robert Gordon Latham (1859)
"—The ordinary division of the tungus of the Russian empire is founded upon the
names of the animal with which the different sections chiefly come in contact ..."
3. The Races of Man, and Their Geographical Distribution by Oscar Peschel (1876)
"To the tungus branch of this group belong in the first place .the Mandschu, ...
Some tungus call themselves Boji, or men, others again Donki, or people. ..."
4. From Paris to Pekin Over Siberian Snows: A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge by Victor Meignan, William Conn (1889)
"... The tungus—The Samoyeds—The Carnival at Irkutsk— Pablo—Adieu to Constantine—Another
perilous night on the ice of Lake Baikal. ..."
5. The Races of Man, and Their Geographical Distribution: From the German of by Oscar Peschel (1876)
"To the tungus branch of this group belong in the first place the Mandschu, ...
Some tungus call themselves Boji, or men, others again Donki, or people. ..."
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