koulan

Meaning

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

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.

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