beast of burden

English

a beast of burden and its human leader

Noun

beast of burden (plural beasts of burden)

1. A draught animal, such as a donkey, mule, llama, camel, horse or ox, that carries or pulls a load for the benefit of a human.
2. (by extension) Any domesticated animal trained to perform tasks for humans, such as a herding dog or trained falcon.

Related terms

• draught animal

Translations

animal that carries or pulls a load

• Armenian: գրաստ (hy) (grast)
• Catalan: bèstia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馱畜 (zh), 驮畜 (zh) (tuóchù)

• Czech: soumar m
• Danish: arbejdsdyr n, trækdyr n, lastdyr n
• Dutch: lastdier (nl) n
• Finnish: juhta (fi), kantojuhta (fi), kuormajuhta (fi)
• French: bête de somme (fr) f, animal de trait (fr) m, bête de charge (fr) f
• Galician: besta de carga f
• German: Saumtier n, Lasttier (de) n, Lastkamel n, Saumkamel n, Packesel (de) m, Tragtier (de) n, Zugtier (de) n
• Greek: υποζύγιο (el) n (ypozýgio)

  Ancient: ὑποζύγιον n (hupozúgion)

• Hungarian: málhás állat, teherhordó állat
• Icelandic: burðardýr n (carrying loads), dráttardýr n (pulling loads), vinnudýr n (more generic)
• Italian: giumento m, animale da soma m
• Japanese: 駄獣 (だじゅう, dajū), 駄載獣 (ださいじゅう, dasaijū)

• Latin: iumentum (la) (pulling carts); armentum (pulling plows)
• Macedonian: товарно животно n (tovarno životno)
• Norwegian: trekkdyr n, kløvdyr n

  Bokmål: lastedyr n

  Nynorsk: lastedyr n

• Persian: چهارپا‎ (fa)
• Polish: zwierzę juczne n
• Portuguese: animal de carga m, animal cargueiro m
• Romanian: animal de povară m
• Russian: вью́чное живо́тное n (vʹjúčnoje živótnoje)
• Sicilian: sumeri (scn), sumaro
• Spanish: bestia de carga f, animal de carga m
• Swedish: lastdjur n, dragdjur n, ök (sv) n
• Ukrainian: в'ю́чна твари́на f (vʺjúčna tvarýna)
• Volapük: (generic) lodotanim, (ass) lodotacuk, (mule) lodotamulud, (hinny) lodotahinud, (horse) lodotajevod, (bovine) lodotabub, (ox) lodotahobub
• Welsh: anifail pwn

domesticated animal trained to perform tasks for humans

• Arabic: بَهِيمَة‎ f (bahīma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馴養動物, 驯养动物 (xùnyǎng dòngwù)

• Finnish: juhtaeläin (fi), juhta (fi)
• German: Arbeitstier (de) n
• Italian: animale addestrato

Further reading

• beast of burden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia