somon

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of somon

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of sum (“Mongolian administrative division”), particularly in relation to Buryatia, Russia.
    “Next day we drove through hilly pasture, in which we observed two large flocks of cranes, to Kharkorin, once the imperial city of Ogodei Khan, now a somon centre and state farm lying in a great plain encircled by mountains.”

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Etymology

From Russian сомон (somon), from Buryat сомон (somon), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).

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