English Explanatory Dictionary

koulan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

koulan koulans kulan khulan

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Transcaspian wild ass Turkmenian kulan Turkmenistani onager
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