tarpan
English

An alleged tarpan, possibly a hybrid or feral, 1884
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹpən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɑːpən/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pən
Noun
tarpan (plural tarpans)
- An extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 256:
- It’s possible that wild horses, known as tarpans, survived in southern Russia until the nineteenth century, but these may have been hybrids, with genes from domestic horses.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Kyrgyz тарпан (tarpan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taʁ.pɑ̃/
Further reading
- “tarpan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtar.pan/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -arpan
- Syllabification: tar‧pan
Declension
Further reading
- tarpan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Declension
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