Nogaiann.adj.

1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations 348 The Nagayans..were diuided into diuers companies called Hords.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 One becke more to the balies of the cinque portes, whome I were a ruder Barbarian then Smill the Prince of the Crims & Nagayans if in this actio I should forget..Citty, towne, cuntry.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 422 These Nagayans have their divers hords subject to their severall Dukes whom they call Murzes.

1895 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 24 388 Under the Turks we find a great variety of races, of whom perhaps the chief are the Osmanslis, Yakuts, Turkomans, Nogaians, [etc.].

1940 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. M. Prawdin Mongol Empire xxiv. 397 The power of the Nogaians was broken. although the name was still used by the Krim-Tartars.

1996 T. Matsyugina & L. Perepelkin Ethnic Hist. Russia 158 There is the problem of the Nogaians (3 per cent of the population) who are seeking their own autonomous status in the North Caucasus.

1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth i. f. 2 Eastward they haue the Nagaian Tartar, that possesseth all the countrie on the East side of Volgha.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Qqq5^v These again subdivided into severall Tribes, which they call their Hordes, of which the most considerable are, 1. the Nagaian Tartars, 2. the Zavolhenses, 3. the Thumenenses, 4. the Kirgessi.

1996 T. Matsyugina & L. Perepelkin Ethnic Hist. Russia 51 The Kumyks and Nogaian..belong to a quite different culture... A plan has been suggested to partition Karachai-Cherkessia into five ethnic enclaves: Karachaian, Cherkes, Russian, Abazinian, and Nogain [sic].