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lancer - der Lancier (pronounced lanseeYAY with a heavy stress on the last syllable). Note that English lancer is sometimes mistranslated into German as der Landser (infantryman) - no doubt because Landser and lancer sound similar.

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Lancier is the French word for lancer, the German word is der Ulan (or Uhlan) and is derived from the Polish word Ulani. There are several possibilities for the etymology of the word:

from the Turkish word oğlan (meaning young man)

According to Polish sources oğlan is a Mongol word and means brave warrior.

Another possibility is that the word is derived from the name of an Iranian tribe

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