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ᡨᠠᡨᠠᠨ (tatan, from tatambi)

1. a camp, a stopping place, an encampment
2. territory of a tribe
3. lodging

coron tatan: a yurt (木架窩舖)
tatan i boo: residence, abode
tatan i da: chief of a camp (夥長)
tatan tobo: a simple lodging made of willow branches (帷幄)

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ᡠᠰᡝᡵᡳ (useri, from use)

n. pomegranate; cf. šilio

useri cuse moo: a bamboo-like plant that forms red seed pods (闌天竹)
useri šugi: 石榴酱

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ᠰᡳᠯᡳᠨ (silin, from silimbi)

topnotch, elite, crack troops (精銳)

silin dacun: crack (troops), select, topnotch
silin dacungga kūwaran: Light Division (健銳營)

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ᠰᡠᡴᡡ (sukū)

1. skin, hide, pelt, leather
"wahan i bek šaijagan . . . loho juwe, silun sukū juwe afaha be belek doroi obume alibuha (Wakhan's beg Shah Jahan presented 2 swords and 2 lynx pelts as gifts)"
2. fruit peel

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ᡥᡡᠵᡳᡵᡳ (hūjiri)

adj. alkaline, alkali, soda, bittern

hūjiri ba: an alkaline place
"ilan uwase karun cohome hūjiri ba, aniyadari dasacibe urui šungkume tuhembi (Ilan Uwase karun is an especially alkaline place and constantly sinks despite annual upkeep)

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ᠮᠠᠰᡝ (mase)

1. pockmarks
2. a pockmarked person; cf. kerkeri

mase usiha: walnut
mase muyari: lychee

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ᠪᡠᠯᠵᠠᡴᡡ (bulcakū, from bulcambi)

n. a person who dislikes and avoids work
"ele bulcakū akdafi ojorakū ([They are] all slackers [and] aren't dependable)"

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ᡧᠠᡵᡳᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠮᠪᡳ (šaringgiyambi)

1. to clean, to scrape clean (an arrow-shaft)
2. to expiate, to atone, to wipe out (a wrong or shame)

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ᠵᡳᠯᡤᠠᠨ (jilgan, from jilgambi)

n. sound, noise, voice (聲)

den jilgan i: in a loud voice
jilgan mudan: regional accent
sunja jilgan: the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale (五聲)

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ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten)

1. the foot of a mountain (山根)
"juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)"
2. the hem of a garment (衣邊)
3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten

abkai buten: the horizon (天涯)

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ᡥᡝᡶᡝᠯᡳ (hefeli)

belly, womb (肚)

ajige hefeli: the lower belly
hefeli aššambi: to have diarrhea
hefeli nimembi: to have a belly ache, to suffer gastric distress (腹痛)
simhun hefeli: palm of the hand, sole of the foot

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ᠸᡝᡵᡳ (weri)

adj. another, other

weri niyalma: someone else

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ᠣᡴᠰᠣᠨ (okson, from oksombi)

n. step, pace

okson be ilinjambi: to halt, to go no farther
okson fuliburakū: unable to take a step

"tanggū okson i dubede morin ci ebu (dismount 100 steps from the [tomb])"

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