uhlan

English

Alternative forms

• ulan

Etymology

From French uhlan, from German Uhlan, from Polish ułan, from Ottoman Turkish اوغلان (oğlan).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈ(j)uːlən/

Noun

uhlan (plural uhlans)

1. (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

• cavalryman
• cuirassier
• dragoon
• hussar
• lancer
• trooper
• yeoman

Translations

soldier with lance

• Azerbaijani: ulanlar
• Bulgarian: улан m (ulan)
• Catalan: ulà (ca) m
• Czech: hulán (cs)
• Dutch: ulaan (nl)
• 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 (ūlan)
• Lithuanian: ulonai
• Norwegian: ulan (no)
• 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

Anagrams

• hulan

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Uhlan, from Polish ułan, from Ottoman Turkish اوغلان (oğlan, “boy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.lɑ̃/

Noun

uhlan m (plural uhlans)

1. (military, historical) uhlan

Further reading

• “uhlan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.