wisent

See also: Wisent

English

A wisent.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wisent. Doublet of bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪzənt/

• Audio (US)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzənt/
• Rhymes: -ɪzənt

Noun

wisent (plural wisents)

1. The European bison, Bison bonasus.

Synonyms

• European bison, zubr

Hypernyms

• (a member of the Genus Bison): bison
• (a cloven-hoofed ruminant mammal of the subfamily Bovinae, cattle): bovine
• (a hoofed mammal chewing cud): ruminant

Hyponyms

• (only surviving purebred subspecies, Bison bonasus bonasus): lowland wisent
• (subspecies only surviving as a hybrid, Bison bonasus caucasicus): Caucasian wisent
• (extinct subspecies, Bison bonasus hungarorum): Carpathian wisent
• steppe wisent

Translations

European bison, Bison bonasus

• Arabic: بَيْسُون أُورُوبِّيّ m (baysūn ʔurubbiyy)
• Asturian: bisonte européu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: zubr
• Basque: bisonte europar
• Belarusian: narkamawka: зубр m (zubr), taraškievica: зу́бар m (zúbar)
• Breton: bizon europa
• Bulgarian: зу́бър (bg) m (zúbǎr)
• Catalan: bisó europeu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野牛 (zh) (yěniú), 歐洲野牛／欧洲野牛 (Ōuzhōu yěniú)

• Czech: zubr (cs) m
• Danish: visent, europæisk bison
• Dutch: wisent (nl) m
• Esperanto: visento, eŭropa bizono
• Estonian: pürg (et)
• Faroese: visundur
• Finnish: visentti (fi)
• French: bison d’Europe (fr) m
• Friulian: bisont european
• Galician: bisonte europeo, bisonoxe europeo
• Georgian: დომბა (domba)
• German: Wisent (de) m, Europäischer Bison m
• Greek: βόνασος ευρωπαϊκώς m (vónasos evropaïkós)
• Hungarian: bölény (hu), európai bölény
• Icelandic: evrópskur vísundur m
• Irish: bíosún
• Italian: bisonte europeo m
• Japanese: ヨーロッパバイソン (Yōroppa baison)
• Kashubian: żuber m, dated zãbrz m
• Kazakh: зубр (zubr)
• Kyrgyz: зубр (zubr)
• Ladin: bisont european
• Latin: bisōn m
• Latvian: sumbrs m
• Lithuanian: stumbras (lt) m
• Maltese: buflu ta’ l-ewropa m
• Navajo: Béésh Bichʼahnii bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ ayání
• Northern Sami: visenta, eurohpá bison
• Norwegian: visent
• Occitan: bisont d'Euròpa
• Old Prussian: wissambris, zambrus
• Persian: ویسنت (visent)
• Polish: żubr (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisão europeu m, bisonte europeu m
• Romanian: zimbru (ro) m
• Romansch: bison europaic
• Russian: зубр (ru) m (zubr)
• Sardinian: boi europeu, boe europeu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зубар m, еуропски бизон m

  Roman: zubar (sh) m, europski bizon m

• Slovak: zubor (sk) m
• Slovene: zober m
• Sorbian:

  Lower: zubr m

  Upper: zubr (hsb) m

• Spanish: bisonte europeo m
• Sudovian: zambras m
• Swedish: visent (sv), europeisk bison (sv)
• Tajik: зубр (zubr)
• Turkish: Avrupa bizonu
• Turkmen: zubr
• Ukrainian: зубр m (zubr)
• Uzbek: zubr (uz)
• Welsh: ych gwyllt (cy)
• West Frisian: wisint
• Zazaki: bizonê Ewropa

Anagrams

• Westin, twines

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wisent in the 19th century. The native word, Middle Dutch wesende, from Old Dutch *wisent (in the placename Wisenthurst) had by then long been obsolete due to the medieval extinction of the species in Western Europe.

Breeding programmes and the establishment of several viable herds in the Netherlands has since the early 21st century rendered the word familiar to a broader audience; it was previously mostly restricted to a learned context.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋisɛnt/, /ˈʋizɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

wisent m (plural wisenten, diminutive wisentje n)

1. wisent

Further reading

• wisent on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl