Etymology

uhlan

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Today it means: A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies. Full definition →

French uhlan ← German Uhlan ← Polish ułan
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The story

  1. Ottoman Turkish · derived fromاوغلان
  2. Polish · derived fromułan
  3. German · derived fromUhlan
  4. French · borrowed fromuhlan
  5. English todayuhlan

From French uhlan, from German Uhlan, from Polish ułan, from Ottoman Turkish اوغلان (oğlan).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.