livestock

English

Etymology

From live +‎ stock

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪvstɒk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪvstɑk/

Noun

livestock (uncountable)

1. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

Translations

farm animals

• Arabic: (indefinite) مَوَاشٍ‎ f pl (mawāšin), أَنْعَام‎ (ar) f pl (ʾanʿām), دَوَاجِن‎ f pl (dawājin) (birds)

  Egyptian Arabic: مواشي‎ f pl (mawāšī), دواجن‎ f pl (dawāgen)

  Moroccan Arabic: بهايم‎ m (bhāyim), كسيبة‎ (ksība)

• Armenian: անասուն (hy) pl (anasun)
• Asturian: ganáu m
• Azerbaijani: mal-qara
• Bashkir: мал (mal)
• Basque: azienda, abere
• Belarusian: бы́дла n (býdla)
• Bulgarian: добитък (bg) m (dobitǎk)
• Catalan: bestiar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家畜 (zh) (jiāchù), 牲畜 (zh) (shēngchù)

• Czech: dobytek (cs) m
• Dutch: vee (nl) n
• Finnish: karja (fi)
• French: cheptel vif m, bétail (fr) m
• Galician: gando (gl) m, gado (gl) m
• Georgian: პირუტყვი (ṗiruṭq̇vi), საქონელი (sakoneli)
• German: Vieh (de) n, Nutztiere (de) n pl, Nutzvieh (de) n
• Greek: ζωικό κεφάλαιο n (zoïkó kefálaio)

  Ancient: κτῆνη n pl (ktênē)

• Hungarian: haszonállat
• Icelandic: búfé n
• Irish: stoc m
• Italian: bestiame (it) m
• Japanese: 家畜 (ja) (かちく, kachiku)
• Kabuverdianu: limária
• Karakalpak: mal

• Kazakh: түлік (tülik)
• Korean: 가축 (ko) (gachuk)
• Latin: pecus n, pecuāria f
• Latvian: lopi m pl, mājlopi m pl
• Low German: veehtüch
• Macedonian: добиток m (dobitok), стока f (stoka)
• Malay: ternakan, haiwan ternakan
• Malayalam: കന്നുകാലി (ml) (kannukāli)
• Manx: sthock m
• Maori: kararehe (used in the plural)
• Middle English: bestaile
• Navajo: naaldlooshii, biłį́į́ʼ, ałį́į́ʼ
• Norwegian: husdyr (no) n, fe (no) n
• Old English: ǣht f
• Old Saxon: fehu
• Polish: dobytek (pl) m
• Portuguese: gado (pt) m, pecuária (pt)
• Romanian: șeptel (ro) n
• Russian: поголо́вье (ru) n (pogolóvʹje), поголо́вье скота́ n (pogolóvʹje skotá), скоти́на (ru) f (skotína), скот (ru) m (skot)
• Slovak: dobytok (sk) m
• Slovene: živina (sl) f
• Spanish: ganado (es) m
• Swedish: boskap (sv) c
• Tagalog: paghahayupan
• Turkish: enam (tr), mal (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎅𐎎𐎚 (bhmt)
• Ukrainian: худо́ба (uk) f (xudóba), скоти́на f (skotýna)
• Vietnamese: thú nuôi (獸𩟼), gia súc (vi) (家畜)
• Walloon: bisteu (wa) m
• Welsh: da byw m
• Yiddish: פֿיך‎ n (fikh)

See also

• breeding
• cattle