Ulan

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Ulan

1. A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
   • 2018 July 31, Zhou Jiaquan, “Hordes of tourists damaging Chinese salt lake’s pristine environment with discarded plastic”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 July 2018, China‎^[2]:

     The lake is situated in Ulan county, Haixi autonomous prefecture, in western China’s Qinghai province. The blue skies reflected off the surface of the crystallised saline water have given it the name “Mirror of the Sky”, and it attracted millions of tourists in the first half of 2018.

From ulan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔulan/ [ˈʔu.l̪ɐn̪]
• Hyphenation: U‧lan

Ulan (Badlit spelling ᜂᜎᜈ᜔)

1. a surname

• Uhlan

Borrowed from Polish ułan, from Turkish oğlan.

• IPA^(key): /uˈlaːn/

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Ulan m (weak, genitive Ulanen, plural Ulanen)

1. (historical, military) uhlan (lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit)
   • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan‎^[3], 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 […]

• “Ulan” in Duden online