OriginLikely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.
- A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.
“The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea”
“The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.”
“The goral is a ruminant (cud chewer) closely related to the serow, but it is distinguished from the serow by peculiarities in its skull form as well as by its smaller size, shorter horns, and absence ”
- A member of an ethnographic or ethnic group traditionally found in southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic.
Formsgorals(plural) · ghoral(alternative) · ghooral(alternative) · ghural(alternative) · gooral(alternative) · goorul(alternative) · gural(alternative) · Gorals(plural) · Gorall(alternative) · Gorol(alternative) · Goroll(alternative) · Gural(alternative)
Source: Wiktionary