carabao
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish carabao, from Waray-Waray karabaw.
Pronunciation
Noun
carabao (plural carabaos)
- A domesticated subspecies of water-buffalo, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
- 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
- The weaker carabaos are slaughtered for meat, the stronger ones put to work on Golgotha, and the drivers are assimilated into the workforce.
- 2001, Greg Nickles, Philippines: The Culture, page 30,
- Filipinos tell several stories about the carabao. The Tagalog, who live mainly on Luzon, tell the following story about how the carabao, one of the largest animals in the country, is tricked by one of the smallest animals, a hummingbird.
- 2005, Cindy Fazzi, How to Draw the Philippines's Sights and Symbols, page 24,
- The Malay people who arrived in the Philippines between 1500 B.C. and 500 B.C. introduced the carabao as a work animal. Today the carabao, also known as the water buffalo, is a very important animal in the Philippines. Carabaos are popular farm animals.
Translations
Bubalus bubalis carabanesis
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See also
- carabao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Bubalus bubalis carabanesis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Spanish
Etymology
From Waray-Waray karabaw; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Philippine, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, ultimately from Austroasiatic.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
carabao m (plural carabaos)
References
- ^ Mahdi, Waruno. (2009), “Some obscure Austroasiatic borrowings in Indonesian and Old Malay”, presented at 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Aussois, France, 22 – 25 June 2009
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