‖ dziggetai, dzh-|ˈdzɪgətaɪ, dʒ-|Also dschikketaei, dshikketei, dshiggetai, dzigguetai, dzigithai, dziggethai, gicquetei, djiggetai, jiggetai.[Mongolian dschiggetéi (Pallas Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica 262), more properly tchikhitei, eared, long-eared, f.tchikhi ear (Pozdneyev).]A species of equine quadruped native to Central Asia, Equus hemionus. It approaches the mule in appearance.1793Pennant Hist. Quad. (ed. 3) I. 4 Dshikketaei or Wild Mule.Ibid. 7 The Mongalians call them Dshikketaei, which signifies the eared.Ibid. 11 The manners of the Koulan or wild ass, are very much the same with those of the wild horse and the Dshikketaei.1825T. M. Harris Nat.Hist. Bibles.v.Ass §4 The Gicquetei of Professor Pallas, the wild mule of Mongalia.1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim.Kingd. 102 Equus hemionus. (The Dzigguetai.) A species which, as to its proportions, is intermediate between the horse and the ass, and lives in troops in the sandy deserts of Central Asia.1834Phys.Geog. 54/2 (U.K.S.) Thus the quagga [and] the zebra..answer to the ass and the jiggetai of Asia.1839Penny Cycl. XV. 330/1 Wild animals are numerous, especially hares, antelopes, dshiggetais or wild asses.1847–9Todd Cycl.Anat. IV. i. 714 The second species admitted by Zoologists to form a distinct race is the Dzigguetai.1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §77 That direct link between the horse and ass, known to the moderns as the dziggetai, or Equus hemionus.