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taran.

A species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube.

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noun
  1. A species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube.

  2. A tactic of aerial ramming.

Where this word comes from

Sense 1: from Russian тара́нь (taránʹ). Sense 2: from Russian таран (taran).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.