Karakul

or car·a·cul

[ kar-uh-kuhl ]

noun(sometimes lowercase)
  1. one of an Asian breed of sheep having curly fleece that is black in the young and brown or gray in the adult: raised especially for lambskins used in the fur industry.: Compare broadtail, Persian lamb.

  2. (sometimes lowercase) a Karakul lambskin.

Origin of Karakul

1
First recorded in 1850–55; after Kara Kul lake on the Pamir plateau, Tajikistan, near where the sheep were bred

Words Nearby Karakul

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use Karakul in a sentence

  • He hesitated, and finally declared that he could not venture in the direction where the Karakul had appeared.

    Twice Lost | W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for karakul

karakul

caracul

/ (ˈkærəkəl) /


noun
  1. a breed of sheep of central Asia having coarse black, grey, or brown hair: the lambs have soft curled usually black hair

  2. the fur prepared from these lambs

Origin of karakul

1
C19: from Russian, from the name of a region in Bukhara where the sheep originated

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012