buffalo

See also: Buffalo

English

A herd of African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer)

An American bison (Bison bison) in British Columbia

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin būfalus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin būbalus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/

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• enPR: bŭf'ə-lō, IPA^(key): /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/

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Noun

buffalo (plural buffaloes or buffalos or buffalo)

1. Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, , or the water buffalo .
2. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
3. A buffalo robe.
4. The buffalo fish.

Derived terms

• buffalo berry
• buffalo bird
• buffalo bug
• buffalo clover
• Buffalo County
• buffalo fly
• buffalo gnat
• buffalo hump
• water buffalo

 

Translations

Old World mammals

• Afrikaans: buffel (af)
• Albanian: buall (sq) m
• Arabic: جَامُوس m (jāmūs), جَامُوسَة f (jāmūsa)

  Egyptian Arabic: جاموسة f (gamuusa)

  Hijazi Arabic: جاموس m (jāmūs)

• Armenian: գոմեշ (hy) (gomeš)
• Assamese: ম’হ (möh)
• Azerbaijani: camış (az)
• Basque: bufalo (eu)
• Belarusian: бу́йвал m (bújval)
• Bole: koom
• Bulgarian: би́вол (bg) m (bívol)
• Catalan: búfal (ca) m
• Chichewa: njati
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水牛 (zh) (shuǐniú)

• Czech: buvol (cs) m
• Danish: bøffel c
• Dutch: buffel (nl) m, (Syncerus caffer) kafferbuffel (nl) m, (Bubalus bubalis) waterbuffel (nl) m, (Bubalus bubalis) karbouw (nl) m
• Esperanto: bubalo
• Estonian: pühvel (et)
• Faroese: búffil
• Finnish: puhveli (fi)
• French: buffle (fr) m
• Friulian: bufal m, bo salvadi m
• Galician: búfalo m
• Georgian: კამეჩი (ka) (ḳameči)
• German: Büffel (de) m, Wisent (de) n
• Greek: βουβάλι (el) n (vouváli)
• Hausa: ɓauna (ha)
• Hawaiian: pāpulō
• Hebrew: תְּאוֹ m (teó), גָ'מוּס (he) m (jamús), בּוּפָלוֹ m (búfalo)
• Hindi: भैंस (hi) f (bha͠is)
• Hungarian: bivaly (hu)
• Icelandic: buffall
• Irish: buabhall m
• Italian: bufalo (it) m
• Japanese: 野牛 (ja) (やぎゅう, yagyū)
• Kalmyk: маҗ (maj)
• Khmer: ក្របី (km) (krɑbəy)
• Korean: 물소 (mulso), 야우 (yau)
• Kyrgyz: буйвол (ky) (buyvol)
• Lao: ຄວາຍ (lo) (khuāi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: ūrus m, būbalus m
• Latvian: bifelis
• Lezgi: гамиш (gamiš)
• Lithuanian: buivolas (lt)
• Macedonian: бивол m (bivol)
• Malay: kerbau
• Malayalam: പോത്ത് (ml) m (pōttŭ), എരുമ (ml) f (eruma)
• Maltese: buflu m
• Maori: pawhero
• Navajo: tábąąh ayání
• Ngazidja Comorian: nyatri class 9/10
• Norwegian: bøffel (no) m
• Occitan: bufre m
• Ossetian: къа́мбец (k’ámbec)
• Pashto: مېښه f (meẍa), سنډا (ps) m (sanḍâ)
• Persian: گاومیش (fa) (gâvmiš), بوفالو (fa) (bufâlo)
• Polish: bawół (pl) m
• Portuguese: búfalo (pt) m
• Romanian: bivol (ro) m
• Russian: бу́йвол (ru) m (bújvol)
• Sanskrit: महिष (sa) m (mahiṣa)
• S'gaw Karen: ပနၢ် (pa na̱)
• Scottish Gaelic: buabhall m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: биво m, бивол m

  Roman: bivo (sh) m, bivol (sh) m

• Slovak: byvol m
• Slovene: bivol (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: buwoł m

  Upper Sorbian: buwoł m

• Spanish: búfalo (es) m
• Swahili: mbogo (sw), nyati (sw)
• Swedish: buffel (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠜꠂꠍ (bois)
• Telugu: గేదె (te) (gēde), బర్రె (te) (barre)
• Thai: ควาย (th) (kwaai), กระบือ (th) (grà-bʉʉ)
• Turkish: kara sığır
• Ukrainian: бу́йвол m (bújvol)
• Urdu: بھینس f (bhains)
• Uzbek: buyvol
• Vietnamese: trâu rừng, trâu (vi)
• West Frisian: buffel m
• Wolof: nagu àll wi

North American bison

• Albanian: bizon (sq) m
• Armenian: բիզոն (hy) (bizon)
• Belarusian: бізо́н m (bizón)
• Bulgarian: бизо́н m (bizón)
• Catalan: bisó (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏴᏑ (yvsu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野牛 (zh) (yěniú)

• Comanche: kuutsuu
• Cree: ᐸᔉᐙᐎᒧᐢᑐᐢ (paskwaawimostos)
• Czech: bizon (cs) m
• Danish: bison c
• Dutch: bizon (nl) m, (inaccurate translation of buffalo meaning bison) buffel (nl) m
• Esperanto: bizono
• Estonian: piison
• Faroese: bisonur m, búffil m
• Finnish: biisoni (fi)
• French: bison (fr) m
• Georgian: კამეჩი (ka) (ḳameči)
• German: Bison (de) m, Büffel (de) n
• Greek: βίσονας (el) m (vísonas)
• Hawaiian: pāpulō
• Hebrew: ביזון m (bizon)
• Hopi: mosayru
• Hungarian: bölény (hu)
• Irish: bíosún m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: bison (it) 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), バッファロー (baffarō)
• Korean: 들소 (deulso), 버팔로 (beopallo), 야우 (yau)
• Lakota: tȟatȟáŋka
• Lithuanian: bizonas
• Navajo: ayání
• Norwegian: bison
• O'odham: pisin
• Ojibwe: ᒪᔥᑯᑌᐱᔑᑭ, mashkodebizhiki
• Polish: bizon (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisão (pt) m
• Romanian: bizon (ro) m
• Russian: бизо́н (ru) m (bizón)
• Scottish Gaelic: buabhall m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бизон m

  Roman: bizon (sh) m

• Shoshone: bozheena
• Slovak: zubor (sk) m
• Slovene: bizon (sl) m
• Spanish: bisonte (es) m
• Swedish: bisonoxe (sv) c
• Taos: kònéna, (yearling) c’ə́olena
• Turkish: bizonu
• Ukrainian: бізо́н (uk) m (bizón)

robe

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

fish

• French: ictiobus m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} bual (br)
• Ladin: ^{(please verify)} bo salvare
• Romani: ^{(please verify)} guruv m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romansch: ^{(please verify)} bov selvadi
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} boe aresti, ^{(please verify)} búfalu
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} byfflo

See also

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

buffalo (third-person singular simple present buffaloes, present participle buffaloing, simple past and past participle buffaloed)

1. (transitive) To hunt buffalo.
2. (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
3. (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.

Translations

hunt buffalo

• Danish: jage bøfler, gå på jagt (gå på bøffeljagt)
• French: chasser (fr) le buffle
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: polować na bawoły
• Tamil: kurangu (kurangu)

outwit, confuse

• Bulgarian: обърквам (bg) (obǎrkvam), слисвам (bg) (slisvam)
• Danish: forvirre, bringe ud af det, sætte til vægs
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: être (fr) plus malin, confondre (fr), intimider (fr), battre (fr)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 愚弄 (zh) (yúnòng), ^{(please verify)} 愚弄 (zh) (yú nòng)

pistol-whip

• French: frapper (fr) avec la crosse d'un pistolet
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on Wikipedia

References

• “buffalo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from English buffalo.

Noun

buffalo

1. buffalo (Asian or African)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland