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Cattle

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Pronunciation

  • AHD : kăt'l
  • IPA : /ˈkæt(ə)l/
  • SAMPA : /"k{t(@)l/

Noun

cattle (plural)

  1. four-legged ruminant mammals of the bovine genus. Male: bull (uncastrated), steer (castrated). Female: cow. Young: calf. Young male: bullock . Young female: heifer.
    Do you want to raise cattle?
  2. (Rare.) beef.
    I hate eating cattle.

Scientific name

Translations

  • Albanian: kau i egër
  • Basque: behi-azienda
  • Belarusian: карова
  • Breton: chatal pl penn-chatal singulier m
  • Bulgarian: говедо , скот (govedo , skot )
  • Catalan: boví
  • Chinese: (niú)
  • Croatian: govedo
  • Czech: skot
  • Danish: tamkvæg
  • Dutch: rund n
  • Ekspreso: vakon
  • Esperanto : bovino (bov´ in´o).
  • Estonian: veis
  • Faroese: neyt
    nauta, karja
  • French: bovin m
  • Frisian: ko
  • Friulian: bovin / nemâl
  • Gallegan: boi
    Rind n
  • Greek: βόδι (taurus)
  • Hungarian: szarvasmarha
  • Icelandic: kýr , naut
  • Indonesian: sapi
  • Interlingua: vacca
  • Irish: ba (plural)
  • Italian: bovino
  • Japanese: (うし , ushi)
  • Korean: 소 (so)
  • Ladin: arment
  • Latin: Bos taurus primigenius
  • Latvian: liellopigovs
  • Lithuanian: galvijai m, pl, pekus m (archaic, means herd of cattle)
  • Lower Sorbian: gowjedo
  • Macedonian: говедо (govedo )
  • Maltese: bhejjem
  • Norwegian: kveg , oksedyr
  • Occitan: vaca
  • Polish: bydło n
  • Portuguese: bovino
  • Romanian: vite
  • Romansh: bov
  • Romany: gurumnya f
  • Russian: скот (skot) m
  • Sami: burru , vuoksá; gussa (cow)
  • Sardinian: bulu , óinu , bàcchinu , bóinu , bacca
  • Scottish: crodh
  • Serbian: говедо (govedo )
  • Slovak: dobytok
  • Slovenian: govedo
  • Spanish: bovino m
  • Swedish: boskap n, kreatur n, nötdjur n, fä n (obsolete)
  • Turkish: sığır /sığırlar
  • Ukrainian: корова , худоба (korova, hudoba)
  • Upper Sorbian: howjado
  • Volapük: kun
  • Welsh: gwartheg pl

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