Ulaanbaatar

English

Alternative forms

• Ulan Bator

Etymology

From Mongolian Улаанбаатар (Ulaanbaatar), from улаан (ulaan, “red”) баатар (baatar, “hero”) (cognate to bogatyr). The name was adopted in 1924; before that, the city was known by a number of more prosaic names, including Их Хүрээ (Ix Xüree, “Great Camp”), Даа Хүрээ (Daa Xüree, “Great Camp”) (whence, via Chinese, its English names Kulun and Kuren), and Өргөө (Örgöö, “Residence”) (whence Urga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌuːlɑːn ˈbɑːtə(ɹ)/

Proper noun

Ulaanbaatar

1. The capital of Mongolia.

Translations

the capital of Mongolia

• Arabic: أُولَان بَاتُور f (ʔūlān bātūr)
• Armenian: Ուլան Բատոր (Ulan Bator)
• Azerbaijani: Ulan-Bator (az)
• Belarusian: Улан-Ба́тар m (Ulan-Bátar)
• Bengali: উলানবাটর (ulanbaṭor)
• Bulgarian: Улан Ба́тор m (Ulan Bátor)
• Burmese: ဦလန်ဘာတာမြို့ (ulanbhatamrui.)
• Buryat: Улаан Баатар (Ulaan Baatar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏蘭巴托／乌兰巴托 (zh) (Wūlánbātuō), 乌兰巴托 (zh) (Wūlánbātuō)

• Danish: Ulan Bator, Ulaanbaatar
• Finnish: Ulan Bator (fi)
• French: Oulan Bator m
• Georgian: ულან-ბატორი (ulan-baṭori)
• German: Ulan-Bator (de) n, Ulaanbaatar (de) n
• Greek: Ουλάν Μπατόρ (el) m (Oulán Batór)
• Hebrew: אוּלָן בָּטוֹר ('ulan bátor)
• Hindi: उलान बतोर (ulān bator)
• Hungarian: Ulánbátor (hu)
• Japanese: ウランバートル (ja) (Uranbātoru)
• Kalmyk: Улан Баатр (Ulan Baatr)
• Kazakh: Ұланбатыр (Ūlanbatyr)
• Khmer: អ៊ូលេនបាធរ (ʼuulein baathɔɔ)
• Korean: 울란바토르 (Ullanbatoreu), 울란바타르 (Ullanbatareu)
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• Kyrgyz: Улан-Баатыр (Ulan-Baatır)
• Lao: ອູລັນບາຕໍ (ʼū lan bā tǭ)
• Malay: Ulan Bator
• Mongolian: Улаанбаатар (Ulaanbaatar)

  Uyghurjin: ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ (ulaɣanbaɣatur) (Inner Mongolia)

• Navajo: Óólan Báátoo
• Persian: اولان‌باتور (ulân-bâtur)
• Polish: Ułan Bator (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ulan Bator f
• Russian: Улан-Ба́тор (ru) m (Ulan-Bátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Улан Батор m

  Roman: Ulan Bator m

• Slovak: Ulanbátar m
• Slovene: Ulan Bator m
• Spanish: Ulán Bator (es) m
• Tajik: Улан-Батор (Ulan-Bator)
• Thai: อูลานบาตาร์ (uu-laan-baa-dtaa), อูลานบาตอร์ (uu-laan-baa-dtɔɔ)
• Tibetan: ཨུ་ལན་དཔའ་ཐུལ (u lan dpa' thul), ཝུ་ལན་བ་ཐུར (wu lan ba thur)
• Turkish: Ulan Batur
• Ukrainian: Улан-Ба́тор m (Ulan-Bátor)
• Uyghur: ئۇلانباتۇر (ulanbatur)
• Uzbek: Ulan-Bator
• Vietnamese: U-lan Ba-to

Related terms

• Ulan-Ude, Ulan Hot
• bogatyr, bahadur