tarpan in English
noun
1
a grayish wild horse that was formerly common in eastern Europe and western Asia, exterminated in 1919.
They essentially tried to do the same thing with the tarpans and the forest bison and some other animals.
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1. The name "tarpan" or "tarpani" is from a Turkic language (Kazakh or Kyrgyz) name meaning "wild horse".
2. However, those who study the history of the ancient wild horse assert that the word "tarpan" only describes the true wild horse.
3. It is debated if the small, free-roaming horses seen in the forests of Europe during 18th and 19th centuries and called "tarpan" were indeed wild, never-domesticated horses, hybrids of the Przewalski's horse and local domestic animals, or simply feral horses.