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koulan

koulan noun: a subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.

koulan: a subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan
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Noun

koulan (plural koulans)

  1. A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
    Synonyms:
    Transcaspian wild ass, Turkmenian kulan, Turkmenistani onager

Synonyms of koulan

  • Transcaspian wild ass
  • Turkmenian kulan
  • Turkmenistani onager

Forms of koulan

pluralkoulans
alternative formkulan
alternative formkhulan

Origin of koulan

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.

Questions about koulan

What does koulan mean?
Koulan means a subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
What part of speech is koulan?
Koulan is a noun.
What is the plural of koulan?
The plural of koulan is koulans.

Words near koulan in the dictionary

  1. koukoulion
  2. koula
  3. koulak
  4. koulaki
  5. koulaks
  6. koulan
  7. koulans
  8. koulas
  9. koulibiac
  10. koulibiaca
  11. koulibiacas

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