Etymology

tarpan

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Today it means: An extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus. Full definition →

Russian тарпа́н ← Turkic
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The story

  1. Turkic · derived from
  2. Russian · borrowed fromтарпа́н
  3. English todaytarpan

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

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