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koulan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
koulan
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

koulans (plural) kulan (alternative) khulan (alternative)

Synonyms

Transcaspian wild ass Turkmenian kulan Turkmenistani onager

Questions

What does koulan mean?
A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
Where does koulan come from?
Borrowed from Russian кулан (kulan, “Asiatic wild ass”), ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قولان (kulan, “wild ass”), Kyrgyz кулан (kulan), Kazakh құлан (qulan), Karakalpak qulan, Nogai кулан (kulan), Bashkir ҡолан (qolan), Tatar колан (qolan), Uyghur قۇلان (qulan), Chagatai قولان (qwlʾn /⁠qulan⁠/) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.

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