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A
аал - home/ yurt/ campsite
аал-оран - home
аас - mouth
ава - mother
агар - to flow (about a river)
ада - father
ажылдакчы - an employee
ажы-төл - children
аза - evil spirit
Азас - Azas (lake in the northern Tuva)
ак - white
акша - money, read like [ashka]
акы - older brother
ала - dappled
алдалаан - six together, six people as a group
алдан - sixty
алды - six
aмыдырал - life
апрель - April
арат - cattle breeder
акcы - a form of “aac”, read like [asky]
ат - name
Африка - Africa
ача - father
аът - horse
аялга - melody
аян - harmonious melody; something pleasing and agreeable
аӊ - animal
Б
баг - leash
бажыӊ - house, home
база - too
бай - rich
бар - existing, have (for example, Менде аът бар. - I have a horse.)
барба - sack, leather bag
башкы - teacher
баштаӊчы - leader
бежелээн - five together, a group of five people
бежен - fifty
берге - difficult, hard
берип - a form of бээр
беш - five
билиг - knowledge
бир, бирээ - one
бис - we
биске - a form of бис
бо - this
бут - leg
бээр - to give
В
Валдо - Waldo
Г
Гарри Поттер - Harry Potter
Д
даай-ава - aunt
даай - uncle
дагаа - chicken
дагылгалыг - blessed, sacred
дарга - boss
даӊза - tobacco pipe
дег - like (for example, башкы дег - like a teacher)
дириг - alive
дөрт - four
дөртелээн - foursome, a group of four
дөртен - forty
дуюг - hoof
дуӊма - younger brother/ sister
дүне - at night
дээр - sky
Ё
ёлка - fir tree
И
ийи - two
ирик - rotten
июнь - June
К
кадак - thin scarf which often given as a gift
кажар - sly
кайгал - daring, bold
кайдал - where
кайыын чедер - expression It is not likely to reach/ overcome…
карак - eye
кат - berry
кафе - cafe
каш - how many
каът - floor
кедер - to put on
кежээ - evening
кезек - piece
кезер - to cut
кет - a form of кедер
кижи - person
кир - a form of кирер
кирер - to enter
кирип моорлаӊар - welcome
клеёнка - waterproof cloth
клён - maple
кожуун - district
кокпа - path
Коңгурой - name of a Kyrgyz state-like entity in the Southern Siberia
кортук - cowardly
кофе - coffee
кочегар - furnace stoker
Кощей - Koshchei (Russian folklore character)
коӊгу - bell
көзү - a form of көс
көс - embers, spark
культура - culture
күрүне - state
күш - power
кылган - a form of кылыр
кылыр - to make
кым - who
кырган-ава - grandmother
кырган-ача - grandfather
кышкы - winter (adjective)
кээргээр - to empathize with, to feel sorry for
Л
лицей - lycee
М
меге - false
мёд - honey
мен - I
мергежилдиг - experienced
меӊ - birth mark
Мөген-Бүрен - Mogen-Buren (village in Western Tuva)
Мөӊгүн-Тайга - Mongun-Taiga (district in Western Tuva)
музей - museum
музыкант - musician
мээӊ - my
О
оваа - mound of stone (a sacred place)
одувус - a form of от
ожук - tripod (for making food above open fire)
ол - that
ол-даа канчаар - expression I don’t care for…
омак - easygoing
он - ten
оол - boy
орай - late
оран-сава - home, house
орта - there (indicating location)
от - fire
оът - grass
оюн - game
Оюннар - the family of Oyuns
оӊ - right (for example, оӊ бут - right leg)
Ө
өг - home, yurt
өжүрбес - will not extinguish
өл - wet
өргүл - offering
өшкү - goat
П
пага - toad
пар - tiger
перец - pepper
Р
pазрядтыг - qualified
С
сай - pebble
саржаг - drawn butter
сафари - safari
сезен - eighty
сен - you
сеӊээ - to you
соӊга - window
студент - student
суук - liquid, watery
суур - village
Т
таваар - slow-paced
таксист - taxi driver
тарак - curdled milk
теве - camel
тевек - a Tuvan game like footbag
тенек - mischievous
тозан - ninety
тон - coat
тос - nine
турист - tourist
тыныш - breath
У
угба - older sister
ужук - string
улу - dragon
университет - university
уран - crafty
ус - skillful
уш - endpoint
уян - melancholy
Ү
үжелээн - threesome, a group of three
үжен - thirty
үжүк - letter (like A, B, C)
үш - three
Ф
факультет - department
Х
хам - shaman
хап - bag
хая - cliff
херек - something is needed (for example, хап херек - a bag is needed)
хой - sheep
хол - hand
холодец - meat in aspic
хомус - mouth harp
хоолай - chimney
хоорай - town, city
хоран - poison
хоюг - smooth
хөй - a lot of
хөөмей - throat singing
хүреш - Tuvan wrestling
Ц
цирк - circus
Ч
чаа - okay
чагаа - letter (the one you send via post)
чайыраан - shining
час - spring
чаъс - rain
чеделээн - a group of seven people
чеден - seventy
чедер - to reach
чеди - seven
челе - tethers
чер - land
четкен - form of чедер
чон - people (as one entity)
чоорган - blanket
чуртталга - life
чүрек - heart
чүс - hundred
чылгы - a herd of horses
чылгычы - horse wrangler
чылыг - warm
чымчак - soft
чыыш - meeting
чээрби - twenty
Ш
Шагаа - Shagaa (Tuvan New Year)
шевер - skilled, neat
шинчилиг - looks like
Шоюн - Shoyun (a last name)
шын - true
Щ
щётка - brush
щи - shchi (Russian cabbage soup)
щука - pike
Ы
ынак - to be in love
ыраажы - singer
Э
эки - good
экии - hello (a universal greeting)
эне - mother, grandmother
Эрзин кожуун - the district of Erzin
эртемдээн - scholar
Я
якут - Yakut