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[edit] Etymology
Old English gōs, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans (compare Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gus'), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (chén), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsa)).
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Wikipedia goose (plural geese)
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
- (slang) A stupid person
- 1906, Langdon Mitchell, “The New York Idea”, in John Gassner editor, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911[1], ISBN 0486410986, published 2000, page 430:
- I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose.
- (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
[edit] Usage notes
- A male goose is called a gander. A young goose is a gosling.
- A group of geese can be called a gaggle when they are on the ground or in the water, and a skein or a wedge when they are in flight.
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[edit] Translations
a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae
- Albanian: patë (sq) f.
- Aleut: la-yik
- Arabic: إوزة (ar) ('iwázza) f., وزة (ar) (wízza, wázza) f.
- Armenian: սագ (hy) (sag)
- Azeri: qaz (az)
- Bashkir: ҡаҙ (qaź)
- Basque: antzara (eu)
- Belarusian: гусь (be) (hus’) f. , гусак (be) (husák) m.
- Bengali: হাঁস (bn) (hãs)
- Breton: gwaz (br) f.
- Bulgarian: гъска (bg) (gǎ̀ska) f., гъсок (bg) (gǎsók) m.
- Burmese: ငန်း (my) (ngan:)
- Catalan: oca (ca) f.
- Chechen: гӀаз (ġaz)
- Cherokee: ᏌᏌ (chr) (sasa)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: ңә
- Mandarin: 鵝 (zh), 鹅 (zh) (é), (wild) 雁 (zh) (yàn)
- Choctaw: shilaklak
- Chuvash: хур (xur)
- Cornish: goedh (kw) f.
- Crimean Tatar: qaz
- Czech: husa (cs) f.
- Danish: gås (da) c.
- Dolgan: каас (kaas)
- Dutch: gans (nl) f.
- Erzya: мацей (macej), гала (gala), дига (diga)
- Esperanto: ansero (eo)
- Estonian: hani (et)
- Faroese: gás (fo) f.
- Finnish: hanhi (fi)
- French: oie (fr) f.
- Friulian: ocje
- Gagauz: kaaz
- Galician: ganso
- Georgian: ბატი (ka) (bati)
- German: Gans (de) f.
- Greek: χήνα (el) (chína) f.
- Ancient: χήν (khēn) m. and f.
- Hebrew: אווז (he) (aváz) m.
- Hindi: हंस (hi) (hans) m.
- Hungarian: lúd (hu), liba (hu)
- Icelandic: gæs (is) (aligæs (is)) f.
- Indonesian: angsa (id)
- Interlingua: ansere, oca
- Irish: gé (ga) f.
- Italian: oca (it) f.
- Japanese: 鵝鳥 (ja) (がちょう, gachō), ガチョウ (ja) (gachō), (wild) 雁 (ja) (かり, kari)
- Kalmyk: һалун (ghalun)
- Karachay-Balkar: къаз (qaz)
- Karakalpak: g'az
- Kazakh: қаз (kk) (qaz)
- Khakas: хас (xas)
- Khmer: ក្ងាន (km) (kŋaan)
- Korean: 기러기 (ko) (gireogi, 雁) (for wildlife), 거위 (ko) (geowi, 鵝) (for poultry)
- Kumyk: къаз (qaz)
- Kurdish: qaz (ku), قاز (ku)
- Kyrgyz: каз (ky) (qaz)
- Ladin: aucia
- Lakota: maǧá
- Lao: ຫ່ານ (lo) (haan)
- Latin: anser (la) m., avica (la) f. (Late Latin)
- Scientific Latinized genera: Anser, Branta, Chen, Cereopsis
- Latvian: zoss (lv) f.
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- Lenape:
- Unami: òpsuwihële
- Lithuanian: žąsis (lt) f.
- Low Saxon: Goos f.
- Macedonian: гуска (mk) (gúska) f.
- Maltese: wiżża (mt) f.
- Mongolian: галуу (mn) (galuu)
- Montagnais: nishk
- Navajo: chį́į́shłigaií
- Neapolitan: pàpara
- Nogai: каз (qaz)
- Norwegian: gås (no)
- Occitan: auca (oc)
- Old English: gōs (ang)
- Old Irish: géd m.
- Ossetian: хъаз (x”az)
- Pashto: بته (ps) (bata) f.
- Persian: غاز (fa) (ğâz)
- Polish: gęś (pl) f.
- Portuguese: ganso (pt) m., gansa (pt) f.
- Romani: gansako m., papin f.
- Romanian: gâscă (ro) f., gânsac (ro) m.
- Romansch: auca (rm) f.
- Russian: гусь (ru) (gus’) m., гусыня (ru) (gusýnja) f.
- Sami: čuonjá
- Sanskrit: हंस (sa) (haṃsá) m.
- Sardinian: coca, oca
- Scottish Gaelic: gèadh (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гуска (sh) f., гусан (sh) m.
- Roman: guska (sh) f., gusan (sh) m.
- Shor: қас (qas)
- Slovak: hus (sk) f.
- Slovene: gos (sl) f., gosak (sl) m.
- Southern Altai: кас (qas)
- Spanish: ganso (es) m. (usually wild), oca (es) f. (farm goose), ánsar (es) m. (rather a formal/zoological word)
- Sundanese: soang (su)
- Swahili: bata bukini (sw)
- Swedish: gås (sv) c.
- Tagalog: gansa (tl)
- Tajik: ғоз (tg) (ğoz), қоз (tg) (qoz)
- Tamil: வாத்து (vāttu)
- Tatar: каз (tt) (qas)
- Telugu: బాతు (te) (baathu)
- Thai: ห่าน (th) (hààn)
- Tibetan: ངང་པ (bo) (ngang pa)
- Turkish: kaz (tr)
- Turkmen: gaz (tk)
- Tuvan: кас (qas)
- Udmurt: ӟазег (z̈azeg)
- Ukrainian: гуска (uk) (húska) f., гусак (uk) (husák) m.,
- Upper Sorbian: huso (hus), husyca
- Urdu: ہنس (ur) (hans) m.
- Uyghur: غاز (ug) (ƣaz)
- Uzbek: gʻoz (uz)
- Vietnamese: ngỗng (vi) (鵝 (vi))
- Volapük: (♂♀) gan (vo), (♂) higan (vo), (♀) jigan (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) ganül (vo), (♂ offspring, young) higanül (vo), (♀ offspring, young) jiganül (vo), , (♂♀, diminutive) ganil (vo)
- Welsh: gŵydd (cy) m.
- West Frisian: goes (fy)
- Yakut: хаас (xaas)
- Yiddish: גאַנדז (yi) (gandz) f.
- Zulu: i(li)hansi
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[edit] See also
goose (third-person singular simple present gooses, present participle goosing, simple past and past participle goosed)
- (slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
- (slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
- (British slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
