karakul

Karakul sheep

Hamid Karzai, former President of Afghanistan, wearing a karakul

• caracul, qaraqul

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

karakul (plural karakuls)

1. A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
2. A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep.
   • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 38:

     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 […] .

• astrakhan
• Persian lamb

• Karakul sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• karakul (hat) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Uzbek [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrɑkul/, [ˈkɑ̝rɑ̝kul]
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑkul
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧ra‧kul

karakul

1. Synonym of karakullammas.

• caracul

karakul m (plural karakuls)

1. karakul