The Collaborative International Dictionary
Koulan \Kou"lan\, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A wild horse ( Equus onager or Asinus onager) inhabiting the plains of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager. [Written also kulan.]
Note: It is sometimes confounded with the dziggetai, to which it is closely related. It is gray in winter, but fulvous in summer. It has a well defined, dark, dorsal stripe, and a short, erect mane. In size, it is intermediate between the horse and ass.
Usage examples of "khur".
Summer, never kind to Khur, had been especially brutal this year— the rains more infrequent than usual, the temperature higher, the wind too slight to grant any measure of relief.
The famed river wound its way through part of Khur and into the Silvanesti Forest, where it eventually joined up with the Thon-Rishas, which meandered deep into the swamp on the other side of the Kalkhists.
A kobold, Fetch was a poor cousin to the ancient and more powerful goblin race that often employed his kind as footsoldiers and lackeys throughout Khur and other desolate parts of Krynn.
It’s rained more in Khur in the past few days than probably the past couple of years.
I whirled to see Lonar standing there, his sword deep in the back of the Khur I had wounded.
Across the Bay of Balifor lay Khur, Balifor, Goodlund, and beyond there the Blood Sea of Istar where, a long time ago, the kingdom of Istar had ruled the world of commerce and culture until the Cataclysm.
Haven't you heard that all the northern lands from Khur to Nordmaar are occupied by Phair Caron's army?
All around them the city streets flowed with people-darting kender, dwarves out of Thorbardin, elves from Silvanesti, humans from the Solamnic Plain, from Khur and Nordmaar.