[boo
r-yaht, boor-ee-aht; Russ. boo-ryaht] 
adjective, noun, plural -yats, (especially collectively) -yat.| 1. | of or pertaining to the Buryat Mongol Republic, its people, or their language. |
| 2. | a member of any of the Mongol people in the Buryat Republic. |
| 3. | the Mongolian language of the Buryat. |