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karakul¹

Where it comes from

Named after the town Qorakoʻl, from Uzbek, meaning black lake.

noun karakuls · caracul · qaraqul

  1. A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
  2. A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep. The karakul hats took me back to a stifling summer afternoon in Kiev and the memory of a squadron of Cossack cavalry exercising down a cobbled street […].

Karakul²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Turkic. Literally, “black lake”. Doublet of Karakol.

proper noun

  1. A lake in Tajikistan.
  2. A lake in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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noun type of hat

Русскийкара́куль karákulʹ

name lakes

中文哈拉库尔 Hālā Kùěr

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"karakul." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/karakul. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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karakul. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/karakul

Chicago

"karakul." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/karakul.

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@misc{karakul_2026,
  title = {karakul},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/karakul},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}