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noun
A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Russian кулан (kulan, “Asiatic wild ass”), ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قولان (kulan, “wild ass”), Kyrgyz кулан (kulan), Kazakh құлан (qūlan), Karakalpak qulan, Nogai кулан (kulan), Bashkir ҡолан (qolan), Tatar колан (qolan), Uyghur قۇلان (qulan), Chagatai قولان (qwlān /qulan/) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.
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