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Tungan, n. and a.|ˈtʌ-, ˈtʊŋgən; dʌ-, ˈdʊŋgən|
Also † Tungani sing. and pl.; Dungan.
[ad. Jagatai Döngan.]
A. n. A member of a Muslim people in China and in Russian Central Asia of Chinese descent.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Tungans.
1875Bellew & Chapman in T. D. Forsyth Report Mission Yarkund ii. 81 The Kara Khitay, the Khitay, and the Tungani. 1908Lady Macartney Diary 12 July in Eng. Lady in Chinese Turkestan (1931) xi. 166 Tunganis and Kirghiz, noticeable by reason of their big fur hats. 1927Cable & French Through Jade Gate xxxvii. 221 A stranger on first seeing a Tungan youth would probably say: ‘What a handsome Arab boy.’ Ibid., Whereas the Tungan speaks Chinese, the Turki has his own tongue. 1965K. P. S. Menon Many Worlds xiv. 201 A young Tungan General. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia V. 190/3 Some Chinese Muslims, called Dungans, have settled in the Soviet Union in the villages and towns of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Alma-Ata oblast (region) of the Kazakh S.S.R. |