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tarpan

UK/ˈtɑːpən/US/ˈtɑɹpən/

tarpan noun: an extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.

tarpan: an extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus
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Noun

tarpan (plural tarpans)

  1. An extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
    • It’s possible that wild horses, known as tarpans, survived in southern Russia until the nineteenth century, but these may have been hybrids, with genes from domestic horses.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 256

tarpan meaning in Tamil

tarpan in Tamil

தார்த்தாரி பகுதிக்குரிய காட்டுக்குதிரை

Forms of tarpan

pluraltarpans

Origin of tarpan

Borrowed from Russian тарпа́н (tarpán), from Turkic (Kazakh тарпаң (tarpaŋ) or Kyrgyz тарпан (tarpan)).

Words that rhyme with tarpan

Questions about tarpan

What does tarpan mean?
Tarpan means an extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
What is tarpan in Tamil?
Tarpan in Tamil is தார்த்தாரி பகுதிக்குரிய காட்டுக்குதிரை. See Tarpan meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tarpan?
Tarpan is a noun.
How do you pronounce tarpan?
Tarpan is pronounced /ˈtɑɹpən/ (US).
What is the plural of tarpan?
The plural of tarpan is tarpans.

Words near tarpan in the dictionary

  1. tarotology
  2. tarots
  3. Taroudant
  4. tarp
  5. tarpa
  6. tarpan
  7. tarpans
  8. tarpaper
  9. tarpapered
  10. tarpapering
  11. tarpapers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarpan (page history and authors); tarpan (Tamil 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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