Kurultai

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Kurultai (/kʊrʊlˈtaɪ/; Quriltai; Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠯᠲᠠᠢ, Хуралдай, romanized: Khuraldai, [xurəɮˈdæ])^{[dn 1]} was a political and military council of ancient Mongol chiefs and khans. The root of the word is Proto-Mongolic *kura-, *kurija- "to collect, to gather"^[1] from which is formed khural meaning "meeting" or "assembly" in Mongolian languages. Khuraldai, khuruldai or khuraldaan means "gathering" or, more literally, "intergatheration". From this same root arises the Mongolian word хурим (khurim), which means "feast" and originally referred to large festive gatherings on the steppe but is used mainly in the sense of "wedding" in modern times.

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