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tarpan

(ˈtɑːpæn)
n
(Animals) a European wild horse, Equus caballus gomelini, common in prehistoric times but now extinct
[from Kirghiz Tatar]
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Noun1.tarpan - European wild horse extinct since the early 20th centurytarpan - European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century
wild horse - undomesticated or feral domestic horse
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Many people perform 'tarpan' on this day to offer prayers to the departed souls of their ancestors and give 'bhog' to the Brahmins, along with food and materials to the needy.
Our ecology evolved with large herbivores -- with free-roaming herds of aurochs (the ancestral cow), tarpan (the original horse), elk, bear, bison, red deer, roe deer, wild boar and millions of beavers.
The tough little horses are descendants of the now-extinct European horse the Tarpan - the last of which died in captivity in Russia in 1909.
Walden has also owned and operated Tarpan Studios, a recording studio in San Rafael, California, since the mid-1980s.
Rumacure oil contains the ingredients Tarpan oil, Buleylu oil, Dalchini oil, Kapur oil and Castor oil and these together get rid of infections and inflammation to reduce joint and muscle pain.
El ancestro del caballo domestico es probablemente el tarpan (E.
(Vera and Buissink, 2007: 24) The former steppe-tundra that these great mammals had occupied was colonised by large ungulates who had survived the Ice Age in more southern parts of Europe, like red deer, roe deer, elk, wild boar, wisent, aurochs and tarpan (the successor of the Przewalski horse).
The Heck brothers attempted to bring back the aurochs (the wild ancestor of domestic cattle), the wisent (an urbison), and the tarpan (an ancient horse breed)--by breeding back to purportedly primal and primeval purity, to purge the degeneration inherent to domestication.
TIMERGARA -- The security forces claimed to have successfully repulsed a cross border attack on a security check post situated between Tarpan and Unkar in the jurisdiction of Mayar Jandol police station.
A baby Tarpan horse has been born in Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains, the first one to come into being in 2013.
I chose the F1-hybrid varieties Elan, Roman, Tarpan and F1 Fresca, all of which are ideal for hanging baskets looking fantastic and simply delicious whether eaten on their own or enjoyed with a warm home-baked scone and lashings of clotted cream.
For naturalist, Hemanta Mishra " Saving the rhino, had become an obsession." One that had to be tempered with realism when King Birendra of Nepal ordered Mishra to organise a hunt for the animal for a Tarpan ceremony-- a ritual that requires a rhino to be killed to propitiate gods to earn ' peace and harmony'.