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The paper deals with several rare military terms attested in three Mongol chronicles of the 17th ... more The paper deals with several rare military terms attested in three Mongol chronicles of the 17th century, namely the Quriyangγui Altan tobči ‘Brief Golden Summary’ (dated to between 1604 and 1634 or the latter half of the 17th century), the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur ‘The Jewel Translucent Sūtra’ (ca. 1607) and the Altan tobči ‘Golden Summary’ by Blo-bzaṅ bstan-’jin (dated to between 1651 and 1655 or the late 17th–early 18th century). The following terms are specifically touched upon in the article: aγuraγ ‘base camp,’ bayirildu- ‘to battle each other, fight a battle,’ bulγaldu- ‘to fight each other or together,’ čaγuraγul- ‘to send on a military campaign,’ ide- ‘to capture and plunder (a city),’ nengde- ‘to make a surprise attack, to attack by surprise,’ niγtarqa- ‘to be in close order,’ toyin ‘(military) camp.’ All these terms are either totally unregistered in dictionaries of Classical Written Mongol, or they appear in unique or rare meanings in our sources. Some of them reflect important features of the military organization dating back to the Mongol Empire.
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