Ulan
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English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Ulan
- A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
- 2018 July 31, Zhou Jiaquan, “Hordes of tourists damaging Chinese salt lake’s pristine environment with discarded plastic”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 31, 2018, China:
- The lake is situated in Ulan county, Haixi autonomous prefecture, in western China’s Qinghai province. The blue skies reflected off the surface of the crystallised saline water have given it the name “Mirror of the Sky”, and it attracted millions of tourists in the first half of 2018.
Translations
Cebuano
Etymology
From ulan.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: U‧lan
Proper noun
Ulan
- a surname from Cebuano
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish ułan, from Turkish oğlan.
Pronunciation
Noun
Ulan m (weak, genitive Ulanen, plural Ulanen)
- (historical, military) uhlan (lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit)
- 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 506:
- Er wagte sich kühn hinaus, hin ging er unter den großen langsamen Tropfen, und mit ihm Ulanen, Kürassiere, Husaren und Train […]
- He ventured out boldly, he went there among the massive slow clusters and with him came uhlans, cuirassiers, husars and the train
Declension
Declension of Ulan
Further reading
- “Ulan” in Duden online