daur meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

daur

nounalso spelled Daur

India, Obsolete A foray or hasty expedition.

I have just been out on a daur, in which I killed Murad Buksh, subahdar of the battery which fired on the boats at Cawnpore.1888, The Life and Opinions of Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, page 117:

Daur

noun

Etymology Official Chinese GB 3304‐91 romanisation. Borrowed from Daur daur and Russian дау́ръ m anim sg (daúr, noun), alternative forms reflect Manchu ᡩᠠᡤᡡᡵ (dagūr), ᡩᠠᡥᡡᡵ (dahūr), and Classical Mongolian ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠷ (daɣur). The ethnonym has been considered to be originated from Khitan ⿰𘲆𘮒 (dau.úr /⁠*dawur⁠/, “middle, central”), a modifier used in the full name of the Liao empire.

A member of an ethnic group (so-called ’nationality’) living in China’s Heilongjiang, Hulunbuir, and northern Xinjiang (Dzungaria), also historically Russia

The language of the ethnic group, which belongs to the Mongolic language family.