zebu

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See also: Zebu, zébu, and zebù

English

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Etymology

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From French zébu, from Tibetan (perhaps མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, male bull-yak hybrid), whence also zobo).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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zebu (plural zebus)

  1. A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).

Synonyms

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A zebu (kind of bovine).

Translations

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Further reading

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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zebu m anim

  1. zebu (type of ox)

Declension

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Also indeclinable.

Indonesian

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Noun

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zebu (first-person possessive zebuku, second-person possessive zebumu, third-person possessive zebunya)

  1. zebu

Japanese

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Romanization

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zebu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゼブ

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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zebu m (definite singular zebuen, indefinite plural zebuer, definite plural zebuene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by sebu

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

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Noun

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zebu n

  1. zebu

Further reading

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  • zebu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French zébu,[1][2] from Tibetan.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ze‧bu

Noun

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zebu m (plural zebus)

  1. (zoology) zebu (domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa)

References

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  1. ^ zebu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ zebu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French zébu.

Noun

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zebu m (uncountable)

  1. zebu

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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zebu (Cyrillic spelling зебу)

  1. accusative singular of zeba