bison

See also: Bison

English

American bison (Bison bison)

European bison (Bison bonasus)

Etymology

From Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯sən/
• Rhymes: -aɪsən

Noun

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons)

1. A wild ox, Bison bonasus.

   Synonyms: wisent, European bison

2. A similar North American animal, Bison bison.

   Synonyms: American bison, (imprecise) buffalo, (imprecise) American buffalo

Translations

wild ox, Bison bonasus

• Albanian: bizon (sq)
• Arabic: بِيسُون‎ m (bīsūn)
• Assamese: বাইচন (baison)
• Belarusian: бізо́н m (bizón), зубр m (zubr), зу́бар m (zúbar)
• Bulgarian: зу́бър (bg) m (zúbǎr), бизо́н m (bizón)
• Catalan: bisó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野牛 (zh) (yěniú)

• Czech: zubr (cs) m, bizon evropský m
• Dutch: Europese bizon m, wisent (nl) m
• Esperanto: bizono
• Faroese: visundur m, bisonur m
• Finnish: visentti (fi), euroopanbiisoni
• French: bison (fr), bison d'Europe (fr) m
• German: Wisent (de) m
• Greek: βίσονας (el) m (vísonas)

  Ancient: βόνασος m (bónasos), βόλινθος m (bólinthos)

• Hungarian: bölény (hu)
• Icelandic: vísundur m
• Indonesian: bison (id)
• Irish: bíosún m
• Japanese: 野牛 (ja) (やぎゅう, yagyū), バイソン (ja) (baison)
• Korean: 바이슨 (baiseun), 들소 (deulso)

• Latin: bison m
• Latgalian: mežavierss
• Latvian: sumbrs m
• Lithuanian: stumbras (lt) m
• Macedonian: бизо́н m (bizón)
• Malay: bison
• Old English: ūr (ang) m
• Old Norse: úrr m, vísundr m
• Pashto: بيژکۍ‎ f or f pl (bižakə́i)
• Persian: بایسن‎ (bâyson)
• Polish: żubr (pl) m
• Portuguese: auroque (pt) m, bisão (pt) m, bisão-europeu (pt) m, bisonte (pt) m
• Romanian: zimbru (ro) m
• Russian: зубр (ru) m (zubr), бизо́н (ru) m (bizón)
• Scottish Gaelic: bìoson m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бизон m, зубар m

  Roman: bizon (sh) m, zubar (sh) m

• Slovak: zubor (sk) m, bizón m
• Slovene: bizon (sl) m, zober m
• Spanish: bisonte (es) europeo m
• Swahili: baisani 9 or 10
• Swedish: visent (sv) c, europeisk bison (sv) c
• Ukrainian: зубр m (zubr), бізо́н (uk) m (bizón)
• Vietnamese: bò rừng bizon, bò rừng bison

North American animal, Bison bison

• Albanian: bizon (sq)
• Armenian: բիզոն (hy) (bizon)
• Blackfoot: iiníí
• Bulgarian: бизон m (bizon)
• Cherokee: ᏴᏑ (yvsu), ᏯᎾᏎ (yanase)
• Comanche: tasiwóo
• Cree: ᐸᔉᐙᐎᒧᐢᑐᐢ (paskwaawimostos)
• Czech: bizon (cs) m, bizon americký m
• Danish: bisonokse c
• Dutch: Amerikaanse bizon m
• Esperanto: bizono
• Finnish: biisoni (fi), amerikanbiisoni
• French: bison (fr) m, bison d'Amérique du Nord (fr) m
• German: Bison (de) m, Amerikanischer Bison m
• Greek: βίσονας (el) m (vísonas)
• Gwich'in: dachan tat gwa’aak’į̀į
• Hungarian: amerikai bölény
• Irish: bíosún Meiriceánach m
• Japanese: 野牛 (ja) (やぎゅう, yagyū), アメリカ野牛 (アメリカやぎゅう, Amerika yagyū)

• Lakota: pté, tȟatȟáŋka
• Navajo: ayání
• O'odham: pisin
• Ojibwe: ᒪᔥᑯᑌᐱᔑᑭ (mashkodebizhiki)
• Omaha-Ponca: tenúga
• Osage: 𐓲𐓟 (tse)
• Pawnee: kíwiikuʾ
• Polish: bizon (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisão (pt) m, bisão-americano (pt) m, bisonte (pt) m
• Quapaw: tóka, tóxe, tte
• Romanian: bizon (ro) m
• Russian: бизо́н (ru) m (bizón)
• Scottish Gaelic: buabhall m, bìoson Ameireaganach m
• Shoshone: bozheena
• Spanish: bisonte (es) americano m
• Swahili: baisani wa Marekani 9 or 10
• Swedish: bisonoxe (sv) c
• Ukrainian: бізо́н (uk) m (bizón), америка́нський бізо́н m (amerykánsʹkyj bizón), америка́нський зубр m (amerykánsʹkyj zubr)
• Vietnamese: bò rừng
• Wichita: néérhir'a

Further reading

• bison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Ibson, binos, bions

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French

bison

Etymology

From Latin bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.zɔ̃/

• un bison

  (file)

Noun

bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

Descendants

• → Russian: бизо́н (bizón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “bison” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”). Compare Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.soːn/, [ˈbɪs̠oːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.son/, [ˈbiːs̬ɔn]

Noun

bisōn m (genitive bisōntis); third declension

1. bison (Bison bonasus)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bisōn	bisōntēs
Genitive	bisōntis	bisōntum
Dative	bisōntī	bisōntibus
Accusative	bisōntem	bisōntēs
Ablative	bisōnte	bisōntibus
Vocative	bisōn	bisōntēs

Further reading

• bison in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

Noun

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison