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pasan, pasang|ˈpɑːzən, -əŋ|
Also 8 pazan, 9 pazun, paseng.
[a. Pers. pāzan the mountain goat; erron. analysed as f. pā foot + sang stone.]
A species of wild goat (Capra ægagrus), found in Western Asia and Crete; the bezoar-goat.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. 74 The eighth is called the pazan; or, by some, the bezoar goat. 1834J. B. Fraser Persia xii. 470 Two of the most interesting creatures to be met with in these countries are the..Pazun (the mountain goat) and the Argali. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 282/2 Cuvier..considers the Paseng (Capra ægagrus) to be the parent-stock of all the varieties of the domestic goat. 1893Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 107 The bezoar stone..is a concretion obtained from the stomach of the pasang.
¶ Mistakenly identified by Buffon (1764, XII. 212) with the oryx or gemsbok, a S. African antelope; the error was formerly followed by some English compilers, and is reproduced in some 19th c. dictionaries. |