tarpan

noun

tar·​pan

(ˈ)tär¦pan

plural -s

: a small swift dun-colored horse once found wild in Europe and parts of Asia but now extinct in its pure wild form and confined to herds which have been reestablished especially in Poland

Word History

Etymology

Russian, from Kyrgyz

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