somon

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

somon (plural somons)

1. Alternative form of sum (“Mongolian administrative division”), particularly in relation to Buryatia, Russia.
   • 1993, John Colvin, Twice Around the World: Some Memoirs of Diplomatic Life in North Vietnam and Outer Mongolia:

     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.

• Osmon, monos, moons, nomos, somno-

som +‎ -on

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃomon]
• Hyphenation: so‧mon

somon

1. superessive singular of som

Borrowed from French saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō.

IPA^(key): /soˈmon/

somon m (plural somoni)

1. salmon

From French saumon.

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• IPA^(key): /soˈmon/

somon (definite accusative somonu, plural somonlar)

1. salmon

Possibly a foreign borrowing.

somon

1. watermelon