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'''Nokhai''' (died 1299), also called '''Nohai''', '''Kara Nokhai''', '''Isa Nogai''',<ref>G.V. Vernadsky, ''The Mongols and Rus''</ref> was a [[general]] and de facto ruler of the [[Golden Horde]] and a great-great-grandson of [[Genghis Khan]]. His grandfather was Baul/Teval Khan, the 7th son of [[Jochi]]. His name is also spelled '''Nohai''' and '''Nogaj'''. Nogai Khan was also a notable convert to [[Islam]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}}
Pelliot wrote that Nokhai meant a "dog." Although in the [[Mongolian language]], "nokhoi" (in [[Mongolian script]]: {{MongolUnicode|ᠨᠣᠬᠠᠢ}}, ''nokhai'') literally means a "dog", it does not necessarily mean a particularly negative and insulting name in its context, since people were called "dogs" among the Mongols at the time and sometimes presently as "nokhduud" as in "you dogs (guys/men/people)." Genghis Khan also called his capable generals "dogs of war" or "men of war." This probably came about because Mongols had a lot of dogs, and dogs were very useful for people's lives in hunting and warnings. According to the historian J. J. Saunders, the name "Dog" was used to distract the attention of evil spirits (presumably, they would not be interested in a canine). The Mongols sometimes referred to the wolf as a "steppe dog".
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