chigetai, dziggetai, Equus hemionus hemionus
(noun) Mongolian wild ass
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dziggetai (plural dziggetais)
The Mongolian wild ass, Equus hemionus hemionus, a subspecies of the onager.
Source: Wiktionary
Dzig"ge*tai, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus).
Note: The name is sometimes applied also to the koulan or onager. See Koulan.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
