urga

Questions about urga

What does urga mean?

urga means "the capital and largest city of Mongolia".

How many syllables are in urga?

urga has 2 syllables and divides as ur-ga under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for urga?

Close synonyms include Ulan Bator, Ulaanbaatar, Kulun, capital of Mongolia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is urga a common word?

urga is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.