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語源

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

名詞

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.

アナグラム

• Monos, Osmon, monos, somno-, moons, nomos