ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ

• (Arabic script) التان (ʾltʾn /⁠altan⁠/), التَانْ (ʾltān /⁠altan⁠/), التن (ʾltn /⁠altan⁠/)
• (Han script) 阿勒壇 (ālètán /⁠altan⁠/)
• ('Phags-pa script) ꡝꡙ
  ꡉꡋ (ʼʼl-tʼn /⁠altan⁠/)

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *altan, from Proto-Turkic *altūn.

ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ (ʾʾldʾn /altan/)

1. golden

ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ (ʾʾldʾn /altan/)

1. gold

• Central Mongolic:
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ (altan)
    • Mongolian: алт (alt)
    • Buryat: алтан (altan)
  • Written Oirat: ᠠᠯᡐᠠᠨ (altan)
    • Kalmyk: алтн (altn)
• Daur: alt
• Southern Mongolic:
  • East Yugur: [Term?] (aɬdan)
  • Shirongolic:
    • Bonan: [Term?] (altaŋ)
    • Dongxiang: [script needed] (antaŋ)
    • Kangjia: [Term?] (antɔ)
    • Monguor:
      • Mangghuer: [Term?] (artaŋ)
      • Mongghul: [Term?] (χaldan, χardam)

• D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 296
• Poppe, Nicholas (1938), Mongolʹskij Slovarʹ Mukaddimat al-Adab‎^[1] (in Russian), page 99
• Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 6
• D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2010), Mongolian monuments in ʾPhags-pa script (Language and Linguistics monograph series; 42), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 181
• Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 269

ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ • (altan) (Cyrillic spelling алт (alt))

1. gold

ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ • (altan) (Cyrillic spelling алтан (altan))

1. golden, (made) of gold