Home › Words › E › esaulesaulesaul means the head of a group or unit of Cossacks.EtymologyFrom Russian есау́л (jesaúl), Ukrainian осаву́л (osavúl). Ultimately from Middle Mongol 札撒兀勒 (zhásāwùlè /ǰasa'ul/).nounThe head of a group or unit of Cossacks.e.g.“Some four months after this event, a smart Yesaul, at the head of a party of Kozaks, on the high road to Nishnei Novogorod perceives a poor fellow resting himself upon a bank.” — 1833, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 11, page 394:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.aqsaqal 54% match — A village elder in some Central Asian cultures. vs esaul →ressala 51% match — An Indian cavalry regiment. vs esaul →cossackry 49% match — Cossacks considered collectively and as a distinct group. vs esaul →serrefile 48% match — The leader of a cavalry troop. vs esaul →exco 48% match — Executive committee or council. vs esaul →aul 47% match — A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals. vs esaul →cossaei 46% match — A warlike tribe of Susiana. vs esaul →ulus 46% match — An administrative division of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, similar to райо́н (rajón, “district”) in Russia proper. vs esaul →