koulan

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noun

A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.

Similar
Transcaspian wild assTurkmenian kulanTurkmenistani onager
OriginRussian кулан ← Turkic →
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Meanings

nounkoulan (plural koulans)

plural koulans · alternative kulan · alternative khulan

  1. A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.

    Synonyms: Transcaspian wild ass, Turkmenian kulan, Turkmenistani onager

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.

Similar
Transcaspian wild assTurkmenian kulanTurkmenistani onager
Also see
mongolian wild ass

Origin

  1. Turkic
  2. Russianкулан“Asiatic wild ass”
  3. Englishkoulan

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.

More words from Russian, Turkic

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Translations

Finnish kulaani
  • kulaaniEquus hemionus
Polish kułan
  • kułanEquus hemionus
Romanian kulan
  • kulanEquus hemionus
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APA

koulan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/koulan

MLA

“koulan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/koulan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “koulan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/koulan.

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