馬闌勒

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馬闌_舌勒 (mǎránlè /maral/)

1. hind, doe of a red deer
   • c. 13th century, anonymous, Secret History of the Mongols 1a:

     格兒該 亦訥 豁埃 馬闌_舌勒 阿只埃

     gé-ér-gāi yì-nè huò-āi mǎ-rán-lè ā-zhǐ-āi

     /gergei inü qo’ai maral aǰi’ai/

     His wife was a grey doe

• Classical Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠷᠠᠯ (maral)
  • Mongolian: марал (maral)
  • Buryat: марал (maral)
• Written Oirat:
  • Kalmyk: марл (marl)
• → Azerbaijani: maral, Maral
  • → Armenian: մարալ (maral)
• → Chagatai: مارال (mārāl), مرال (mrāl)
  • Uyghur: مارال (maral)
    • → Salar: marıl^[1]
  • Uzbek: maral
• → Persian: مرال (marâl), مارال (mārāl)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مرال (meral)
    • Turkish: (dialectal) maral, Meral
• → Russian: мара́л (marál), мора́л (morál)
• → Southern Altai: марал (maral)
• → English: maral

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 360, page 495
• Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobcaʼan (Yüan-Chʼao Pi-shi) (in German), Leipzig: Harrassowitz, page 108
• Schönig, Claus (2000), “maral”, in Mongolische Lehnwörter im Westoghusischen (Turcologica; 47) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, page 135
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*maral”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Levitskaja, L. S.; Blagova, G. F.; Dybo, A. V.; Nasilov, D. M.; Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume VII, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, pages 45, 46