Etymology

koulan

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Today it means: A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan. Full definition →

Russian кулан ← Turkic
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The story

  1. Turkic · derived from
  2. Russian · borrowed fromкулан“Asiatic wild ass”
  3. English todaykoulan

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 (qulan), Tatar колан (qolan), Uyghur قۇلان (qulan), Chagatai قولان (qwlʾn /⁠qulan⁠/) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.

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