koulan

See also: kòulán

English

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Etymology

Possibly 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) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

koulan (plural koulans)

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

Usage notes

Not to be confused with Mongolian khulan (Mongolian wild ass, Equus hemionus hemionus).

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