goral

Etymology

From an eastern Indian word for the Himalayan goral. Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.

noun

  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. 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.

name

  1. A surname from Polish.