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A beast of burden and its human leader
beast of burden (plural beasts of burden)
- A domestic animal that performs heavy work for humans, such as carrying a load (on its body) or pulling a load (which trails behind).
- Hypernyms: working animal < animal, beast < creature
- Hyponyms: (basic types) pack animal, draught animal, draft animal; (contextually hyponymous) donkey, mule, llama, camel, horse, ox, cow
- Coordinate term: service animal
- (by extension) Any domestic animal trained to perform other tasks for humans, such as a herding dog or trained falcon.
- Hypernyms: working animal < animal, beast < creature
- Near-synonyms: working animal, service animal
- (by extension, figurative, chiefly in the negative) A person who is mistreated by being inappropriately treated like a servant.
Get it yourself. I'm not your beast of burden.
animal that carries or pulls a load
- Armenian: գրաստ (hy) (grast)
- Catalan: bèstia (ca) f, animal de càrrega m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 馱畜 / 驮畜 (zh) (tuóchù)
- Czech: soumar (cs) m
- Danish: arbejdsdyr n, trækdyr n, lastdyr n
- Dutch: lastdier (nl) n
- Esperanto: ŝarĝbesto
- 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 (de) n, Lasttier (de) n, Lastkamel n, Saumkamel n, Packesel (de) m, Tragtier (de) n, Zugtier (de) n, Arbeitstier (de) n
- Greek: υποζύγιο (el) n (ypozýgio)
- Ancient Greek: ὑποζύγιον n (hupozúgion)
- Hungarian: málhás állat, teherhordó állat
- Icelandic: burðardýr n (carrying loads), dráttardýr (is) n (pulling loads), vinnudýr (is) 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)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dewar (ku) f
- Latin: iumentum (la) (pulling carts), armentum (pulling plows)
- Macedonian: товарно животно n (tovarno životno)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lastedyr n, trekkdyr n, kløvdyr n
- Nynorsk: lastedyr n, trekkdyr n, kløvdyr n
- Old Galician-Portuguese: azemela
- Persian: چهارپا (fa)
- Polish: zwierzę juczne n
- Old Polish: klusię n
- Portuguese: besta de carga, animal cargueiro m, azémola (pt) f, azêmola (pt) (Brazil)
- Romanian: animal de povară n
- Russian: вью́чное живо́тное (ru) n (vʹjúčnoje živótnoje)
- Sicilian: sumeri (scn), sumaro
- Spanish: bestia de carga (es) f, animal de carga m
- Swedish: lastdjur (sv) n, dragdjur (sv) n, packdjur (sv) n, ök (sv) n, klövjedjur (sv) n
- Turkish: yük hayvanı (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: حیوان (hayvan)
- 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
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