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Karait (複数形 Karaits)

1. Obsolete spelling of Kerait (member of a particular Turco-Mongol tribal confederation)
   • 1729, A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, Vulgarly Called Tartars:

     However it does not appear that the Turks were ever Masters of more than one half of Grand Tatary; for in the Time of Cavar Chan of Turkestan, mentioned often in the foregoing History, who extended his Dominion over Little Bucharia, or Cashgar, we find several Nations in the East, as those of the Mogulls, Naimans, Karaïts, &c. who had their particular Chans, among which that of the Karaïts was the most powerful; […]

   • 1831, James Bell, A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific:

     Geographers and historians have been sadly puzzled where to find its site; and some, as Malte Brun, have supposed it to have been merely a summer abode of the Karait and Mongolian Khans, like that of Zheholl, where the emperor or khan long received the British embassy.

   • 1875, Dr. H. W. Bellew, The history of Káshgharia, page 25:

     His name was Aong Khan, and his people the Karait and Makrit, who were also Christians, though their Lord became an idolater.

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