Ulan
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From ulan.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: U‧lan
Proper noun edit
Ulan
- a surname from Cebuano
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Polish ułan, from Turkish oğlan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Ulan m (weak, genitive Ulanen, plural Ulanen)
- (historical, military) uhlan (lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit)
- 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan[1], 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 edit
Declension of Ulan [masculine, weak]
Further reading edit
- “Ulan” in Duden online