water buffalo

See also: water-buffalo

English

A water buffalo (1)

Noun

water buffalo (plural water buffalos or water buffaloes or water buffalo)

1. A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: Bubalus bubalis.
2. (US, colloquial) A water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.

Coordinate terms

• (large ungulate in Bubalus): anoa, carabao

Related terms

• (large ungulate): Bubalus arnee (wild species)

Translations

large ungulate

• Acehnese: keubeuë
• Ahom: 𑜁𑜩 (khay)
• Aiton: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: جموسة f (gamūsa)

• Assamese: ম’হ (möh)
• Azerbaijani: asiya camışı
• Banjarese: hadangan
• Bau Bidayuh: kirobow
• Bengali: মোষ (mōś)
• Bikol Central: damulag (bcl), karabaw (bcl)
• Bulgarian: индийски бивол m (indijski bivol)
• Burmese: ကျွဲ (my) (kywai:)
• Cebuano: kabaw
• Central Dusun: kalabau
• Central Melanau: kerebau
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Cherokee: ᎠᎹ ᏯᎾᏌ (ama yanasa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水牛 (zh) (shuǐniú)

• Danish: vandbøffel c
• Dutch: waterbuffel (nl) m, karbouw (nl) m
• Finnish: vesipuhveli (fi)
• French: buffle d’Asie (fr), buffle des marais (fr), buffle des rivières (fr)
• German: Wasserbüffel (de) m
• Greek: νεροβούβαλος m (nerovoúvalos)
• Hawaiian: pipi Pākē
• Hebrew: תאו (he) m (te’ó), ג׳מוס (he) m (jamús)
• Hindi: भैंस (hi) f (bha͠is)
• Hungarian: vízibivaly (hu)
• Indonesian: kerbau (id)
• Irish: buabhall uisce m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Ivatan: pagad
• Japanese: 水牛 (ja) (すいぎゅう, suigyū), スイギュウ (ja) (suigyū), 呉牛 (ごぎゅう, gogyū)
• Javanese: kebo (jv)
• Kapampangan: damulag
• Kazakh: енеке (eneke)
• Khamti: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ក្របី (km) (krɑbəy)
• Khün: ᨣ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨿ
• Kimaragang: karabau
• Korean: 물소 (mulso)
• Laboya: kari
• Lao: ຄວາຍ (lo) (khuāi)
• Latvian: ūdens bifeļu
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• Lithuanian: vandeninis buivolas m
• Lü: ᦩᦻ (xwaay)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: kerbau, benuang
• Malayalam: പോത്ത് (ml) m (pōttŭ), എരുമ (ml) f (eruma)
• Minangkabau: kabau (min)
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Thai: ᨤ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨿ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vannbøffel (no) m, vassbøffel m

  Nynorsk: vassbøffel m

• Okinawan: 水牛 (みじうし, mijiushi)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: گاومیش (fa) (gâvmiš)
• Phake: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: bawół domowy m
• Portuguese: búfalo-asiático (pt)
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: bivol de apă m
• Russian: азиа́тский бу́йвол m (aziátskij bújvol), инди́йский бу́йвол m (indíjskij bújvol), бу́йвол (ru) m (bújvol)
• Saek: ว๊าย
• Scottish Gaelic: buabhall uisge m
• Serbo-Croatian: vodeni bivol m
• Shan: ၵႂၢႆး (shn) (kwáai)
• Slovak: vodný byvol m, byvol vodný m
• Spanish: búbalo m, búfalo de agua m
• Sundanese: ᮙᮥᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮀ (munding)
• Swahili: nyati (sw) class 9/10/1/2
• Swedish: vattenbuffel (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠜꠂꠍ (bóisó)
• Tagal Murut: karabau
• Tagalog: kalabaw (tl)
• Tai Dam: ꪁꪫꪱꪥ
• Tai Nüa: ᥑᥣᥭᥰ (xäay)
• Tajik: говмеш (tg) (govmeš)
• Tamil: எருமை (ta) (erumai)
• Telugu: గేదె (te) (gēde)
• Thai: ควาย (th) (kwaai)
• Tibetan: མ་ཧེ (ma he)
• Turkish: su sığırı (tr), manda (tr), camız (tr), kömüş (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: trâu (vi)
• West Coast Bajau: kerabou
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: vaiz

Further reading

• water buffalo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia