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English

Alternative forms

• kulan, khulan

Noun

koulan (plural koulans)

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

Usage notes

Not to be confused with Mongolian khulan (Mongolian wild ass).

Synonyms

• (Equus hemionus kulan): Transcaspian wild ass, Turkmenian kulan, Turkmenistani onager

Translations

Further reading

• Turkmenian kulan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Onager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English onager, onagir (“wild ass; military catapult”), from Anglo-Norman onager, Middle French onager, onagre, Old French onager, onagre (“wild ass; military catapult”) (modern French onagre), from Late Latin onager (“large siege engine”), Latin onager (“wild ass”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ??????? (ónagros, “wild ass”), Byzantine Ancient Greek ??????? (ónagros, “large siege engine”), from ???? (ónos, “ass”) + ?????? (ágrios, “wild”) (from ?????? (agrós, “countryside; field”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“to drive”)) + -??? (-ios, suffix forming adjectives)).

The “military engine” sense alludes to the strong recoil of the engine, likened to an onager’s kick; see the 2007 quotation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?d??/, /-??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n?d??/, /???-/
• Hyphenation: ona?ger

Noun

onager (plural onagers or onagri)

1. The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).

   Synonym: (obsolete) hemionus
2. (military, historical) A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.

Hypernyms

• (military engine): catapult

Hyponyms

• (wild ass):
  • khulan, koulan, kulan (Equus hemionus kulan)
  • chigetai, dziggetai, Mongolian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemionus)

Coordinate terms

• (military engine): mangonel, trebuchet

Related terms

• onagga (“dauw or striped quagga”)

Translations

References

Further reading

• onager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• onager (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• onager at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Gorean, Orange, Ragone, groane, orange

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin onager, from Ancient Greek ??????? (ónagros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??na?.??r/
• Hyphenation: ona?ger
• Rhymes: -a???r

Noun

onager m (plural onagers)

1. onager, Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus

   Synonyms: halfezel, woudezel

2. (historical) onager (Roman torsion catapult)

Latin

Alternative forms

• onagrus

Etymology

From Hellenistic Ancient Greek ??????? (ónagros, “wild ass”), from ???? (ónos, “ass”) + ?????? (ágrios, “wild”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.na.?er/, [??nä??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.na.d??er/, [???n?d???r]

Noun

onager m (genitive onagr?); second declension

1. wild ass; onager
2. onager (type of military engine)

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

See also

• ballista
• catapulta

Descendants

• French: onagre
• Italian: onagro
• Portuguese: onagro
• Spanish: onagro
• ? English: onager

Further reading

• onager in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• onager in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• onager in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• onager in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

Etymology

From Latin onager.

Noun

onager m (oblique plural onagers, nominative singular onagers, nominative plural onager)

1. (clarification of this definition is needed)onager