Buryat

American  

[boor-yaht, boor-ee-aht, boo-ryaht] / bʊərˈyɑt, ˌbʊər iˈɑt, buˈryɑt /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Republic of Buryatia, its people, or their language.

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noun

PLURAL

Buryats,

PLURAL

Buryat

1. a member of any of the Mongol people in the Republic of Buryatia.

2. the Mongolian language of the Buryat.

Buryat British  

/ bʊəˈjɑːt, bʊərɪˈɑːt /

noun

1. a member of a Mongoloid people living chiefly in the Buryat Republic

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family

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Example Sentences

According to Yekaterina Morland, an ethnic Buryat volunteer at the Asians of Russia Foundation, Buryatia has seen mobilization rates up to six times higher than Russia’s European regions.

From Seattle Times

Eventually, a serviceman she believed to be an ethnic Buryat from Siberia offered to let her speak to someone he said knew the full story.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the wreckage shown by the ministry was a helmet stencilled in Russian with the last three letters of a surname ending “-NOV”, and an empty leather holster marked “Buryat” - the name of an ethnic group that lives in Siberia.

From Reuters

Yevgenia Baltatarova, an independent Buryat journalist from Ulan-Ude, in Siberia, spoke to me from Kazakhstan.

From New York Times

I wondered if the wooden poles scattered across the island, totems of the indigenous Buryat religion, were even more covered in colorful prayer ribbons during this time of global desperation.

From New York Times