uhlan

English

Alternative forms

ulan

Etymology

From French uhlan, from German Uhlan, from Polish ułan, from Turkish oğlan.[1]

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈ(j)uːlən/

Noun

uhlan (plural uhlans)

(historical) A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies.

Coordinate terms

Translations

soldier with lance

Azerbaijani: ulanlar
Bulgarian: улан m (ulan)
Catalan: ulà (ca) m
Czech: hulán (cs)
Dutch: ulaan
Finnish: ulaani (fi)
French: uhlan (fr) m
Galician: ulano
German: Ulan (de) m
Greek: ουλάνος (el) m (oulános)
Hungarian: ulánus (hu), dzsidás (hu)
Italian: ulano m
Japanese: ウーラン (ūran)

Kazakh: ұлан (ulan)
Lithuanian: ulonai
Norwegian: ulan
Polish: ułan (pl) m
Portuguese: ulano m
Russian: улан (ru) m (ulan)
Serbo-Croatian: улани
Sicilian: ulanu
Slovene: ulanec m
Spanish: ulano m
Swedish: ulan c
Ukrainian: улан (ulan)
West Frisian: ulan

Further reading

uhlan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

“uhlan” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

Anagrams

hulan

French

Etymology

From German Uhlan, from Polish ułan, from Turkish oğlan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /y.lɑ̃/

Noun

uhlan m (plural uhlans)

(military, historical) uhlan

Further reading

“uhlan” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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