6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
originBorrowed 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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