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Cow
English
Pronunciation
Noun
cow (plural cows)
- the female of the four-legged ruminant of the bovine genus cattle. the female of Bos taurus.
- the female of several species of mammal, including bovines, whales, and elephants.
- (derogatory) a woman who is considered despicable in some way, especially one considered to be fat, lazy, ugly or spiteful.
- something annoying.
Scientific name
Related terms
Idioms
Translations
- Albanian: kau i egër
- Basque: behi
- Belarusian: жывела
- Breton: buoc’h f -ed pl, saout pl
- Bulgarian: скот, крава (skot, krava)
- Catalan: vaca f
- Chinese: 母牛 (mǔníu)
- Croatian: krava
- Czech: kráva
- Danish: ko
- Dutch: koe f (1,2), domme koe f (3)
- Esperanto : bovino (bov´ in´o).
- Estonian: lehm
- Faroese: kúgv
- Finnish: lehmä (1, 2 only for quadrupeds, 3), nauta (1)
- French: vache f
- Frisian: ko
- Friulian: vacje
- Gallegan: vaca
- German: Kuh f
- Greek, Ancient: βοῦς (būs)
- Greek, Modern: αγελάδα (ayelaða)
- Hebrew: פרה (Pa'ra) (1,3)
- Hungarian: tehén
- Icelandic: nautpeningur
- Indonesian: lembu
- Interlingua: vacca
- Irish: bo
- Italian: mucca f, vacca f
- Japanese: 牛 (うし , ushi)
- Jèrriais: vaque f
- Kannada: Hasu
- Korean: 소 (so)
- Ladin: vacia
- Latin: vacca f, bos m,f
- Latvian: liellopigovs
- Lithuanian: karvė f (1, 3)
- Lower Sorbian: krowa
- Macedonian: крава (krava)
- Maltese: baqra
- Norwegian: okse m , ku f
- Occitan: vaca
- Polish: krowa f
- Portuguese: vaca
- Romanian: vacă
- Romansh: vatga
- Romany: gurumni f
- Russian: корова (korova) f
- Sami: burru , vuoksá ; gussa (cow)
- Sardinian: bulu , óinu , bàcchinu , bóinu , bacca , vacca
- Scottish: bo
- Serbian: крава (krava)
- Slovak: krava
- Slovenian: krava f (1,3)
- Spanish: vaca f
- Swedish: ko (1), kossa (1,3)
- Tibetan: བ་ (pa)
- Tok Pisin: bulmakau (1), bulmakau meri (2)
- Turkish: sığır , inek
- Ukrainian: худоба (hudoba), бидло (bidlo)
- Upper Sorbian: howjado , kruwa
- Volapük: kun
- Welsh: buwch
See also
Transitive verb
to cow (cowed)
- to intimidate
- Con artists are not cowed by the law.
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