onager

Etymology
From, , from , , , , (modern 🇨🇬), from , , from Hellenistic , Byzantine , from  +  (from  (possibly ultimately from ) + ).

The “military engine” sense alludes to the strong recoil of the engine, likened to an onager’s kick; see the 2007 quotation.

Noun

 * 1)  The Asiatic wild ass or hemione, an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the , , or.
 * 2)   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.
 * 1)   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.
 * 1)   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.
 * 1)   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.
 * 1)   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.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arvanitika: onagër
 * Arabic: أَخْدَر, عَيْر, فَرَأ, فَرَاء, عِلْج
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܥܪܕܐ, ܥܪܕܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: իշավայրի, ցիռ
 * Bulgarian: азиатско диво магаре
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 中亞野驢
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, puoliaasi
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄναγρος, ἡμίονος ἀγροτέρα
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: keledai asia
 * Italian:
 * Latin: onager
 * Middle Persian: gwl
 * Old English: wilde assa
 * Ottoman Turkish: یابان اشكی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: onagro
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: divlji magarac,
 * Spanish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎈𐎍


 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܥܪܕܐ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 野驢炮
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Latin: onager
 * Ottoman Turkish: منجنیق
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: onagro
 * Spanish:

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) onager, Asiatic wild ass,
 * 2)  onager Roman torsion catapult
 * 1)  onager Roman torsion catapult

Etymology
From Hellenistic, from +.

Noun

 * 1) wild ass; onager
 * 2) onager type of military engine

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) onager

Etymology
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