Talk:zubr

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zubr#English

’Zubr’ is a slavic (Russian, Czech, Upper Sorbian, ...) word for wisent / European bison (Bison bonasus). I’ve never encountered it as an English word before and found it it none of my dictionaries. --JaS (talk) 13:28, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

google books:zubr found me several citations pretty quick. I don't have time to type them up, but finding them was not hard.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:47, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I cited it and split it into two entries, though the first could use cleaning up by someone with more knowledge of the species involved then I have. There's a modern use that's cited with not great cites that clearly refer to the extant European bison, and then there's an older use. I used copious cites on the first to make it clear that the authors were not entirely clear on what the zubr was, and certainly not agreeing with each other on where the lines were; perhaps someone can clarify the definition.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:03, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Verified. bd2412 T 15:54, 6 September 2013 (UTC)