tarbagan · noun — any of species Marmota sibirica of marmots that live on the steppes of Central Asia.
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tarbagan is pronounced /ˈtɑːbəɡən/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian тарбаган (tarbagan), from Southern Altai (Teleut) тарбаган (tarbagan), ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *tarbagan.
noun
- Any of species Marmota sibirica of marmots that live on the steppes of Central Asia.
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Words closest in meaning
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- marmotine 62% match — Any ground squirrel of the tribe Marmotini vs tarbagan →
- bobac 59% match — The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak). vs tarbagan →
- tahr 58% match — Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes). vs tarbagan →
- irbis 58% match — snow leopard (large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia) vs tarbagan →
- bobak 57% match — The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak). vs tarbagan →
- saiga 55% match — Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. vs tarbagan →
- tragopan 54% match — Any of several species of Asian pheasant of the genus Tragopan. vs tarbagan →
- taran 54% match — A species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube. vs tarbagan →