Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wild ass of Tibet, Equus hemionus. It is over four feet high at the shoulder, of a dark-reddish color, with a narrow stripe along the back.
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Examples
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I remember very little detail apart from a great sense of wonder at everything I saw: the vast herds of drong (wild yaks) ranging across the plains, the smaller groups of kyang (wild asses) and occasionally a shimmer of gowa and nawa, small deer which were so light and fast they might have been ghosts.
From Birth to Exile 2010
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I remember very little detail apart from a great sense of wonder at everything I saw: the vast herds of drong (wild yaks) ranging across the plains, the smaller groups of kyang (wild asses) and occasionally a shimmer of gowa and nawa, small deer which were so light and fast they might have been ghosts.
From Birth to Exile 2010
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Outrageous arrogance (nga-rgyal-las-kyang nga-rgyal) is a puffed-up mind that feels I am better than someone superior to myself in some quality.
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006
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On the other hand, there were numerous herds of kyang, which in the early mornings came to drink of the water by which the camps were pitched.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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Herds of the kyang, the wild horse of some naturalists, and the wild ass of others, graceful and beautiful creatures, graze within gunshot of the track without alarm, I had thought Ladak windy, but Rupchu is the home of the winds, and the marches must be arranged for the quietest time of the day.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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He trots and gallops, and when alarmed gallops fast, but as he is not worth hunting, he has not a great dread of humanity, and families of kyang frequently grazed within two hundred and fifty yards of us.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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Such examples as the Russian Chudo-Yudo (a dragon), the Chinese ping-pang rattling of rain on the roof, 21 the Tibetan kyang-kyong lazy, and the Manchu porpon parpan blear-eyed are curiously reminiscent, both in form and in psychology, of words nearer home.
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The kyang allows his pursuer to approach no nearer than five or six hundred yards; he then trots off, turns, looks and waits till you are almost within distance, when he is off again.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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He trots and gallops, and when alarmed gallops fast, but as he is not worth hunting, he has not a great dread of humanity, and families of kyang frequently grazed within two hundred and fifty yards of us.
Among the Tibetans 1867
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Herds of the kyang, the wild horse of some naturalists, and the wild ass of others, graceful and beautiful creatures, graze within gunshot of the track without alarm, I had thought Ladak windy, but Rupchu is the home of the winds, and the marches must be arranged for the quietest time of the day.
Among the Tibetans 1867
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