wild ass

See also: wild-ass

English

Somali wild ass

Alternative forms

• wild-ass

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīld ăsʹ, IPA^(key): /waɪld ˈæs/

Noun

wild ass (plural wild asses)

1. Any of several wild equine mammals closely related to donkey, endemic to Asia and northeast Africa.

Derived terms

• African wild ass (Equus asinus)
• Asian wild ass, Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus)
• Atlas wild ass (†Equus africanus atlanticus)
• European wild ass (†Equus hemionus hydruntinus)
• Indian wild ass (Equus hemionus khur)
• Mongolian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemionus)
• Nubian wild ass (Equus africanus africanus)
• Persian wild ass (Equus hemionus onager)
• Somali wild ass (Equus africanus somaliensis)
• Syrian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemippus)
• Tibetan wild ass (Equus kiang)
• Transcaspian wild ass (Equus hemionus kulan)
• Yukon wild ass (†Equus lambei)

Translations

mammal

• Arabic: عَيْر m (ʕayr), فَرَأ m (faraʔ), عِلْج m (ʕilj), حِمَار بَرِّيّ m (ḥimār barriyy), حِمَار وَحْش m (ḥimār waḥš)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܥܪܕܐ m (ʿrāḏā)

  Jewish Literary Aramaic: ערוד m (ʿrāḏ), ערודא m (ʿrāḏā), ארודא m (ʾrāḏā)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野驢／野驴 (zh) (yělǘ)

• Finnish: villiaasi (fi)
• French: âne sauvage (fr) m
• German: Wildesel m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὄναγρος m (ónagros)

• Hebrew: עָרוֹד (he) m (ʻārôḏ), פֶּרֶא (he) m (pereʼ)
• Manx: assyl feie m, assyl oaldey m
• Polish: dziki (pl) osioł (pl) m
• Russian: ди́кий осёл m (díkij osjól)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дѝвљӣ ма̀гарац m

  Latin: dìvljī (sh) màgarac (sh) m

• Somali: gumburi (so) m
• Swedish: vildåsna c
• Ukrainian: ди́кий осе́л m (dýkyj osél), ди́кий віслю́к m (dýkyj visljúk)

See also

• ass
• burro
• donkey
• mule
• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

• “wild ass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Sidlaws