Definition of Tungus

1. Noun. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia; related to the Manchu.

Exact synonyms: Evenk
Generic synonyms: Tungusic

2. Noun. The Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia.
Exact synonyms: Evenki, Ewenki, Tunguz
Generic synonyms: Tungusic, Tungusic Language

Definition of Tungus

1. Noun. Any of a group of roving Turanian tribes in Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley, who speak Tungusic languages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tungus

Tulostomaceae
Tulostomataceae
Tulostomatales
Tulsa
Tulu
Tumandar
Tumbuka
Tums
Tunga
Tunga penetrans
Tungabhadra
Tungidae
Tungoose
Tungooses
Tungus
Tunguses
Tungusic
Tungusic language
Tungusological
Tunguz
Tunis
Tunis cake
Tunis cakes
Tunisia
Tunisian
Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian dinar
Tunisian dirham
Tunisian monetary unit

Literary usage of Tungus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Royal Canadian Institute, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) (1898)
"Some give themselves the name Donki, people, whence the name tungus appears to have arisen. * * However this may be, it is acknowledged without ..."

2. Descriptive Ethnology by Robert Gordon Latham (1859)
"—The ordinary division of the tungus of the Russian empire is founded upon the names of the animal with which the different sections chiefly come in contact ..."

3. The Races of Man, and Their Geographical Distribution by Oscar Peschel (1876)
"To the tungus branch of this group belong in the first place .the Mandschu, ... Some tungus call themselves Boji, or men, others again Donki, or people. ..."

4. From Paris to Pekin Over Siberian Snows: A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge by Victor Meignan, William Conn (1889)
"... The tungus—The Samoyeds—The Carnival at Irkutsk— Pablo—Adieu to Constantine—Another perilous night on the ice of Lake Baikal. ..."

5. The Races of Man, and Their Geographical Distribution: From the German of by Oscar Peschel (1876)
"To the tungus branch of this group belong in the first place the Mandschu, ... Some tungus call themselves Boji, or men, others again Donki, or people. ..."

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