7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
originUnadapted borrowing from Russian барха́н (barxán), from a Turkic language such as Kazakh барқан (barqan); further etymology unknown. The Russian word was first used in scientific literature in 1881 by the Russian zoologist and explorer Alexander von Middendorf (1815–1894).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0