Значение

значений: 2
  1. The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).

    Onager

    она́грonágr

    Asiatic wild ass

  2. (историческое)A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.

    Onager

Переводы

языков: 8
Русский
По значениям 1
Asiatic wild ass or hemione:
Deutsch
По значениям 1
Asiatic wild ass or hemione:

Происхождение

From Middle English onager, onagir (“wild ass; military catapult”), from Anglo-Norman onag

From Middle English onager, onagir (“wild ass; military catapult”), from Anglo-Norman onager, Middle French onager, onagre, Old French onager, onagre (“wild ass; military catapult”) (modern French onagre), from Late Latin onager (“large siege engine”), Latin onager (“wild ass”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “wild ass”), Byzantine Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “large siege engine”), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”) (from ᾰ̓γρός (ăgrós, “countryside; field”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives)).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Формы

мн. число: onagers / onagri
Ед. числоonager
Мн. числоonagers / onagri

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 2
hemionus
Близкие по смыслу

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 1
Связанныеonagga

Смотрите также

соседние слова
onager — значение, примеры, формы, синонимы | Krumeto