ger

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger)/ᠭᠡᠷ (ger).

noun

  1. A yurt.
    The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers. 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 133

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּר (ger).

noun

  1. A male convert to Judaism.

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