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koulan.

A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.

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Meaning & usage

noun

  1. A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Russian кулан (kulan, “Asiatic wild ass”), ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قولان (kulan, “wild ass”), Kyrgyz кулан (kulan), Kazakh құлан (qulan), Karakalpak qulan, Nogai кулан (kulan), Bashkir ҡолан (qolan), Tatar колан (qolan), Uyghur قۇلان (qulan), Chagatai قولان (qwlʾn /⁠qulan⁠/) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.

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