Submitted Name
Type Political Subdivision
Usage Armenian, English, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog
Scripts Բուրյաթիա(Armenian)
Other Forms FormsBuriatia
Meaning & History
From Russian Бурятия (Buryatiya) from the name of the Buryat people. The ethnic name is from Buryat буряад (buryaad), which is of uncertain origin and meaning, possibly from Buryat буртэ (burte) meaning "wolf". This is the name of a federal subject of Russia.