Ulan

See also: ulan, ulán, ułan, and Ułan

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Ulan

1. A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
   • 2018 July 31, Zhou Jiaquan, “Hordes of tourists damaging Chinese salt lake’s pristine environment with discarded plastic”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 31, 2018, China‎^[2]:

     The lake is situated in Ulan county, Haixi autonomous prefecture, in western China’s Qinghai province. The blue skies reflected off the surface of the crystallised saline water have given it the name “Mirror of the Sky”, and it attracted millions of tourists in the first half of 2018.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏蘭 / 乌兰 (zh) (Wūlán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Cebuano

Etymology

From ulan.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: U‧lan

Proper noun

Ulan

1. a surname from Cebuano

German

Alternative forms

• Uhlan

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish ułan, from Turkish oğlan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈlaːn/

• Audio:

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Noun

Ulan m (weak, genitive Ulanen, plural Ulanen)

1. (historical, military) uhlan (lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit)
   • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan‎^[3], Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 506:

     Er wagte sich kühn hinaus, hin ging er unter den großen langsamen Tropfen, und mit ihm Ulanen, Kürassiere, Husaren und Train […]

     He ventured out boldly, he went there among the massive slow clusters and with him came uhlans, cuirassiers, husars and the train […]

Declension

Declension of Ulan [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ulan	die	Ulanen
genitive	eines	des	Ulanen	der	Ulanen
dative	einem	dem	Ulanen	den	Ulanen
accusative	einen	den	Ulanen	die	Ulanen

Further reading

• “Ulan” in Duden online