[edit] English
Domestic
goat (
Capra aegagrus hircus)
[edit] Etymology
Old English gāt, from Proto-Germanic *gaits (compare Dutch geit, German Geiß, Danish ged), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaid- 'kid, goat' (compare Latin haedus 'kid', Old Church Slavonic заѩць (zajęcĭ) 'hare', Armenian ձի (ji) 'horse', Sanskrit हय (háya) 'horse', जिहीते (jihīte) 'he jumps').
[edit] Pronunciation
Wikipedia goat (plural goats)
- Any of various ruminant mammals, of the genus Capra, related to the sheep.
- (slang) A lecherous man.
- etymology: from the slang term "horny as a goat"
- (informal) A scapegoat
- 2008, "Tigers already miss Jones", in Royal Oak Daily Tribune (Michigan), Aug 6, 2008
- Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role.
- 1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
- Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.
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[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from goat (noun)
[edit] Translations
animal
- Afrikaans: bok (af)
- Albanian: dhi
- Amuzgo: kínch'ió
- Arabic: مَعْزة (ar) (ma3za(t)) f.
- Aragonese: craba f.
- Armenian: այծ (hy) (ayç), (male) նոխազ (hy) (noxaz), քոշ (hy) (koš), քաղ (hy) (k’aġ)
- Old Armenian: այծ (ayc), (male) նոխազ (noxaz), քօշ (kōš), քաղ (kʿał)
- Azeri: keçi (az)
- Basque: ahuntz (eu) f., aker (eu) m.
- Belarusian: каза (be) f.
- Breton: gavr f.
- Bulgarian: коза (bg) (koza) f.
- Catalan: cabra f.
- Cebuano: kanding
- Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏐᏣᏁᏛ (ugasotsanedv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羊 (cmn) (yáng), 山羊 (cmn) (shānyáng)
- Czech: koza (cs) f., kozel (cs) m.
- Danish: ged (da) c.
- Dutch: geit (nl) f., bok (nl) m.
- Esperanto: kapro (eo)
- Estonian: kits (et)
- Ewe: gbɔ̃ n.
- Faroese: geit (fo)
- Finnish: vuohi (fi)
- French: chèvre (fr) f., bouc (fr) m.
- Friulian: cjavre
- Galician: cabra f.
- Georgian: თხა (ka) (t'xa), (one year old) ქოშიკი (ka) (k’ošiki)
- German: Ziege (de) f., Geiß (de) f.
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃
- Greek:
- Ancient: αἴξ m. and f.
- Modern: (he-goat) τράγος (el) (trágos) m., γίδα (el) (gída) f., κατσίκα (el) (katsíka) f., (she-goat) αίγα (el) (aíga) f.
- Hebrew: עֵז (ez) f.
- Hungarian: kecske (hu)
- Icelandic: geit (is) f.
- Indonesian: kambing (id)
- Acehnese: kamèng
- Buginese: bembe
- Javanese: wedus
- Kaili: tovau
- Sunda: êmbé
- Irish: gabhar (ga) m.
- Italian: capra (it) f.
- Japanese: やぎ (ja) (yagi)
- Kazakh: ешкі (kk) (eşki), теке (kk) (teke)
- Kikuyu: bori
- Kirundi: impene
- Korean: 염소 (yeomso), 산양 (sanyang)
- Kurdish: بزن (ku) (bizin)
- Ladin: cioura
- Lao: ແບ້ (lo) (bëë)
- Latgalian: koza f., uozs m.
- Latin: caper (la) m., capra (la) f., hircus (la) m.
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- Latvian: kaza (lv) f., āzis (lv) m.
- Laz: (one year old) ქოშატი (k’ošati)
- Lithuanian: ožka (lt) f., ožys (lt) m.
- Low German: Zeeg (nds) f., Zääg (nds) f., Seeg (nds) f., Sääg (nds) f.
- Lower Sorbian: koza f.
- Luxembourgish: Geess (lb)
- Macedonian: коза (mk) (koza) f.
- Malay: kambing (ms)
- Maltese: mogħża (mt)
- Navajo: tłʼízí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: geit (no) f. and m.
- Nynorsk: geit (nn) f.
- Occitan: cabra
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: коза f.
- Glagolitic: ⰍⰑⰈⰀ f.
- Old Irish: gabor m.
- Persian: بز (fa) (boz)
- Polabian: ťözâ f.
- Polish: koza (pl) f., kozioł (pl) m.
- Portuguese: bode (pt) m., cabra (pt) f.
- Romani: buzno m., buzni f.
- Romanian: capră (ro) f.
- Romansch: chaura (rm) f.
- Russian: коза (ru) (kozá) f., козёл (ru) (kozjól) m.
- Sami: gáica
- Santali: ᱢᱮᱨᱳᱢ (merom)
- Sardinian: craba, becca
- Scots: gait (sco)
- Scottish Gaelic: gobhar
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀за (sh), ја̏рац (sh) m.
- Roman: kòza (sh), jȁrac (sh) m.
- Sicilian: beccu m., crapa f.
- Slovak: koza (sk) f., cap (sk) m.
- Slovene: koza (sl) f., kozel (sl) m.
- Sotho: podi (st)
- Spanish: cabra (es) f., chivo (es) m.
- Sumerian: 𒍚 (ÙZ)
- Swahili: mbuzi (noun 9/10)
- Swedish: get (sv) c.
- Tagalog: kambing
- Telugu: మేక (mEka)
- Thai: แพะ (phae)
- Tswana: podi (tn) (9/10)
- Turkish: keçi (tr)
- Ukrainian: козел (uk) (kozel) m., коза (uk) f., цап (uk) (tsap) m.
- Upper Sorbian: koza f.
- Uyghur: ئۆچكە (ug)
- Vietnamese: dê, con dê
- Vilamovian: cejg
- Volapük: (♂♀) kapar (vo), (♂) hikapar (vo), (♀) jikapar (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) kaparül (vo), (♂ offspring, young) hikaparül (vo), (♀ offspring, young) jikaparül (vo)
- Welsh: gafr (cy) f.
- West Frisian: geit (fy) f.
- Wolof: bëy wi (wo)
- !Xóõ: páli
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[edit] See also
goat (third-person singular simple present goats, present participle goating, simple past and past participle goated)
- (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
- 1918, Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51
- Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather […] For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously
- (transitive) To scapegoat.
- 2001, "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today, July 15, 2001
- John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] West Frisian
goat c.
- shoot (of a plant)
