• (RP) IPA: /ˈɒnədʒə/, /-ɡə/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈɑnədʒɚ/, /ˈɔː-/

onager (plural onagers)

1. The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse#Noun|horse family native#Adjective|native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (ll mul).

   Synonyms: hemionus

   • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of the Ass”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. [...] In Eight Volumes, volume II, new edition, London: Printed for F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], OCLC 877622212 ↗, page 345 ↗:

     The onager, or wild aſs, is ſeen in ſtill greater abundance than the wild horſe; and the peculiarities of its kind are more diſtinctly marked than in thoſe of the tame one.

   • 1875, Jules Verne, chapter VI, in W[illiam] H[enry] G[iles] Kingston [actually Agnes Kinloch Kingston], transl., The Mysterious Island: The Secret of the Island: Translated from the French, volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle […], OCLC 222070337 ↗, pages 82–83 ↗:

     One of the onagers, however, having hurt its leg, could not be harnessed at present, and a few days' rest was necessary.

2. (military, historical) A military engine act#Verb|acting like a sling#Noun|sling which throw#Verb|threw stone#Noun|stones from a bag#Noun|bag or wooden bucket#Noun|bucket power#Verb|powered by the torsion from a bundle#Noun|bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.

• onagga

• French: onagre, hémione
• German: Onager
• Italian: onagro
• Portuguese: onagro
• Russian: она́гр
• Spanish: onagro

• French: onagre
• German: Onager
• Portuguese: onagro
• Spanish: onagro