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tarbagan

UK/ˈtɑːbəɡən/

tarbagan noun: any member of the species Marmota sibirica of marmots that live on the steppes of Central Asia.

Noun

tarbagan (plural tarbagans)

  1. Any member of the species Marmota sibirica of marmots that live on the steppes of Central Asia.
    • One can only guess which rodent was most readily to be found near Lake Issyk-Koul in 1338 but the experience of later epidemics points to the tarbagan or Manchurian marmot, a beguiling squirrel-like creature much hunted for its skin.1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 13

tarbagan meaning in Bengali

tarbagan in Bengali

প্রজাতির যেকোনো মারমট

Forms of tarbagan

pluraltarbagans

Origin of tarbagan

Borrowed from Russian тарбаган (tarbagan), from Southern Altai (Teleut) тарбаган (tarbagan), ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *tarbagan.

Questions about tarbagan

What does tarbagan mean?
Tarbagan means any member of the species Marmota sibirica of marmots that live on the steppes of Central Asia.
What is tarbagan in Bengali?
Tarbagan in Bengali is প্রজাতির যেকোনো মারমট. See Tarbagan meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tarbagan?
Tarbagan is a noun.
How do you pronounce tarbagan?
Tarbagan is pronounced /ˈtɑːbəɡən/ (UK).
What is the plural of tarbagan?
The plural of tarbagan is tarbagans.

Words near tarbagan in the dictionary

  1. Tarazona
  2. Taraškievica
  3. tarbabies
  4. tarbaby
  5. tarbadillo
  6. tarbagan
  7. tarbagans
  8. tarball
  9. tarballed
  10. tarballing
  11. tarballs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarbagan (page history and authors); tarbagan (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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