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Goral

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Polish.
Noun
  1. 1
    A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.

    "The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China."

  2. 2
    A member of an ethnographic or ethnic group traditionally found in southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic.
  3. 3
    small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.

Etymology 2

From Polish góral; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”).

Etymology 3

From Polish Goral and Góral, from góral; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”).

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