karakul
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English
Karakul sheep
Hamid Karzai, former President of Afghanistan, wearing a karakul
Alternative forms
Etymology
Named after the town Qorakoʻl, from Uzbek, meaning black lake.
Noun
karakul (plural karakuls)
- A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
- A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep.
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 38:
- The karakul hats took me back to a stifling summer afternoon in Kiev and the memory of a squadron of Cossack cavalry exercising down a cobbled street […] .
Translations
breed of sheep
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type of hat
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See also
Further reading
Karakul sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - karakul (hat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Etymology
From Uzbek .
Pronunciation
Noun
karakul
- Synonym of karakullammas.
Declension
| Inflection of karakul (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | karakul | karakulit | |
| genitive | karakulin | karakulien | |
| partitive | karakulia | karakuleja | |
| illative | karakuliin | karakuleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | karakul | karakulit | |
| accusative | nom. | karakul | karakulit |
| gen. | karakulin | ||
| genitive | karakulin | karakulien | |
| partitive | karakulia | karakuleja | |
| inessive | karakulissa | karakuleissa | |
| elative | karakulista | karakuleista | |
| illative | karakuliin | karakuleihin | |
| adessive | karakulilla | karakuleilla | |
| ablative | karakulilta | karakuleilta | |
| allative | karakulille | karakuleille | |
| essive | karakulina | karakuleina | |
| translative | karakuliksi | karakuleiksi | |
| abessive | karakulitta | karakuleitta | |
| instructive | — | karakulein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
French
Alternative forms
Noun
karakul m (plural karakuls)