The story
- Mongolian · derived fromᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ“haunt of deer”
- Mandarin · borrowed from包頭 /包头
- English todayBaotou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 包頭 /包头 (Bāotóu), from Mongolian ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ (buɣutu, “haunt of deer”), from ᠪᠤᠭᠤ (buɣu, “deer”) / буга (buga) + -ᠲᠤ (-tu, “with…”) / -т (-t, “ornative case suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.