- 1（極冒犯，勿用）唐氏症患者的舊稱；舊日也說「蒙古症」，同樣不該用。請說「唐氏症」（對岸多說「唐氏綜合徵」）。大寫 Mongol 才指蒙古民族
This is a very old word for a person with Down's syndrome. Do not use it. Doctors once used names like this because they thought the face of a person with Down's syndrome looked a little like the faces of Mongol people — a small fold of skin at the inner corner of the eye, which many East Asian people have too. That idea mixed a medical condition with a whole people, and it was wrong and . English has put the word away. Say Down's syndrome for the condition, and a person with Down's syndrome for the person. Though actually, with a capital M, Mongol is also a name for the Mongol people of the and of — a different use that sits on the same letters, which is how the insult got its shape. In everyday English now, people from are usually called . If you meet mongol in an old book, leave it there.
組成Borrowed from Classical Mongolian mongɣol, from Middle Mongol mongqol — the name of the Mongol people. The Down's syndrome sense came later from that wrong idea about the eye fold.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Mongolnoun詞源 1/ˈmɒŋɡəl/
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A member of an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and various autonomous territories throughout China, tracing their unified identity back to the 13th-century imperial conquests of Genghis Khan.
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offensivederogatorydatedA person with Down syndrome.
- The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
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A member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club of California, United States.
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offensiveslurslangA Turk, particularly in political or Internet discourse by certain neighbors (such as in Greece or the Caucasus) and within Turkey by opponents to suggest a lack of civilization or, in some contexts, to mock the genetic and historical ties between the Turkic and Mongolic peoples.
- —You are malaka! [a wanker] —Malaka goat anan! [is your goat mother!] —Malaka OLOLOLO! —[Answers in Turkish] Malaka goat anandır! [Malaka is your goat mother!] —Mongol! —[Answers in Turkish] Hassiktir ben Türküm! [Fuck you, I am Turkish!]
Mongoladj詞源 1/ˈmɒŋɡəl/
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Synonym of Mongolian.
- THE following fables are selected from a number which a Mongol teacher dictated in his attempts to familiarise a foreigner with the language of Mongolia. It will be seen at a glance that most of them are not native to the country, but come from a laud abounding with sights and scenes unknown to Mongolia. One or two of them, though, have a very Mongol look about them, and doubtless a good many of them have adopted more or less of a Mongol dress.
- While the social system could thus be improved, [G. Stanley] Hall knew that heredity was more important. He argued that a pound of heredity was “worth a hundredweight of education.” It was necessary to pay attention to better breeding: “The nation that breeds best, be it Mongol, Slav, Teuton or Saxon, will rule the world in the future.”
Mongolname詞源 2/ˈmɒŋɡəl/
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A Keram language spoken in Papua New Guinea (also known by its native name Mwakai).
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