"koulan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: koulans [plural], kulan [alternative], khulan [alternative]
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. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|ru|кулан|nocap=1|t=Asiatic wild ass}} borrowed from Russian кулан (kulan, “Asiatic wild ass”), {{der|en|trk}} Turkic, {{m+|ota|قولان|t=wild ass|tr=kulan}} Ottoman Turkish قولان (kulan, “wild ass”), {{m+|ky|кулан}} Kyrgyz кулан (kulan), {{m+|kk|құлан}} Kazakh құлан (qūlan), {{m+|kaa|qulan}} Karakalpak qulan, {{m+|nog|кулан}} Nogai кулан (kulan), {{m+|ba|ҡолан}} Bashkir ҡолан (qolan), {{m+|tt|колан}} Tatar колан (qolan), {{m+|mn|хулан}} Mongolian хулан (xulan) Head templates: {{en-noun}} koulan (plural koulans)
  1. A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan. Categories (lifeform): Equids Synonyms (Equus hemionus kulan): Transcaspian wild ass, Turkmenian kulan, Turkmenistani onager Translations (Equus hemionus): kulaani (Finnish), kułan [masculine] (Polish), kulan [masculine] (Romanian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "Equus hemionus kulan",
      "word": "Turkmenian kulan"
    },
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      "sense": "Equus hemionus kulan",
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    }
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      "sense": "Equus hemionus",
      "word": "kulaani"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Equus hemionus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kułan"
    },
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      "sense": "Equus hemionus",
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      "word": "kulan"
    }
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}

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