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onager
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)
- 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
- (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)
- onager, Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus
- Synonyms: halfezel, woudezel
- (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
- wild ass; onager
- 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)
- (clarification of this definition is needed)onager
onager From the web:
dziggetai
English
Alternative forms
- dzhiggetai, dschikketaei, dshikketei, dshiggetai, dzigguetai, dzigithai, dziggethai, gicquetei, djiggetai, jiggetai, chigetai
Etymology
Borrowed from Mongolian ?????? (chikhtei, “eared”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /?(d)z???ta?/
Noun
dziggetai (plural dziggetais)
- The Mongolian wild ass, Equus hemionus hemionus, a subspecies of the onager.
Translations
References
- “?Dziggetai, dzh-” on page 740/3 of § 1 (D, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
Further reading
- dziggetai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
dziggetai From the web:
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