Is "ゲル" or "ユルト" more commonly used and understood?


Is "ゲル" or "ユルト" more commonly used and understood when referring to large
tents used by Mongolians (gers) and other Central Asian nomads (yurts)?

The Japanese edition of Wikipedia uses
[ゲル](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB_\(%E5%AE%B6%E5%B1%8B\))
rather than ユルト, suggesting the former is the norm. However, I'd like
additional confirmation, and I suspect that just looking at word frequency may
be misleading because ゲル may have unrelated meanings. In addition, "ゲル" being
the norm rather than "ユルト" is surprising as [yurt is more commonly used and
understood than ger in
English](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/140174/when-writing-
about-mongolian-felt-tent-houses-in-english-should-the-word-ger-o).




Neither of the two terms is widely recognized by the general public, so you
have to explain the word anyway. I think you can choose one of them and add
`～ともいう` ("also called ～") in parentheses.

From what I could google, ゲル is more commonly used in Japanese websites. Some
pages use パオ (which is Chinese), and ユルト seems to be even less common. I
vaguely remember learning ゲル at middle or high school, too, but that was more
than 20 years ago.




Neither of the two terms is widely recognized by the general public, so you
have to explain the word anyway. I think you can choose one of them and add
`～ともいう` ("also called ～") in parentheses.

From what I could google, ゲル is more commonly used in Japanese websites. Some
pages use パオ (which is Chinese), and ユルト seems to be even less common. I
vaguely remember learning ゲル at middle or high school, too, but that was more
than 20 years ago.

