ox

See also: Ox, OX, øx, and -öx

English

Etymology

From Old English oxa, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (compare Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥‏ (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उक्षन् (ukṣán)).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks

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Noun

ox (plural oxen)

1. An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).
2. Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
   • 1934, commentary on the Qur'an (Sura 39 verse 6) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali:

     Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.

Synonyms

• steer

Derived terms

Terms derived from "ox"

• grunting ox
• have the black ox tread on one's foot
• Indian ox
• Japanese ox
• Javan ox

• musk ox
• ox bile
• ox bow
• ox gall
• ox pith

• ox is in the ditch
• ox ray
• strong as an ox‎

Translations

an adult castrated male of cattle

• Bashkir: үгеҙ (ügeð)
• Basque: idi (eu)
• Finnish: härkä (fi)
• French: bœuf (fr) m
• Galician: boi (gl) m
• German: Ochse (de) m, Ochs m (dialectal)

  Alemannic German: Ochs m

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 m (auhsa)
• Greek: βόδι (el) n (vódi)

• Latvian: vērsis (lv) m
• Mongolian: шар (mn) (šar), шар үхэр (šar üher)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mfulwa mɓe (mfulwa mbe)
• Portuguese: boi (pt) m
• Russian: вол (ru) m (vol)
• Serbo-Croatian: vol (sh) m
• Spanish: buey (es) m
• Swedish: oxe (sv) c
• Welsh: ych (cy) m

any bovine animal used as a beast of burden

• Afrikaans: os, bees
• Albanian: ka (sq)
• Amharic: በሬ (bäre)
• Arabic: ثُور‏‎ m (ṯūr)
• Armenian: եզ (hy) (ez)

  Old Armenian: եզն (ezn)

• Aromanian: bou m
• Asturian: güe m
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: idi (eu) m
• Belarusian: вол m (vol), бык m (byk) (bull)
• Bulgarian: вол (bg) m (vol)
• Catalan: bou (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎦᏓᎵ (gadali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犉 (zh) (rún), 牛 (zh) (niú) (bull or cow)

• Czech: vůl (cs) m
• Dalmatian: bu m
• Danish: okse (da) c
• Dutch: os (nl) m
• Eshtehardi: گو‏‎ m (geow)
• Esperanto: eksvirbovo, okso
• Estonian: härg (et)
• Ewe: nyi
• Faroese: oksi m
• Finnish: härkä (fi), nauta (fi)
• French: bœuf (fr) m
• Friulian: bo m, nemâl m
• Galician: boi (gl) m
• German: Ochse (de) m

  Old High German: ohso m

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 m (auhsa)
• Greek: βόδι (el) n (vódi)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹר‏‎ (he) m (šor)
• Hungarian: ökör (hu)
• Indonesian: lembu (id)
• Irish: damh m
• Italian: bue (it) m, bove (it)
• Japanese: 去勢雄牛 (きょせいおうし, kyosei ōshi)
• Karachay-Balkar: ёгюз (ögüz)
• Kazakh: бұқа (kk) (buqa), өгіз (kk) (ögiz)
• Khmer: ^{(please verify)} គោឈ្មោល (go chmol)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 악대소 (ko) (akdae-so) , ^{(please verify)} 불깐소 (bulkkan-so)
• Latgalian: vierss m
• Latin: bōs (la) m
• Latvian: vērsis (lv)
• Lithuanian: jautis (lt) m
• Livonian: ǟrga
• Low German: Oss m

• Luxembourgish: Ochs m, Uess m
• Lü: ᦷᦣ (ho)
• Macedonian: вол m (vol)
• Mongolian: үхэр (mn) (üher)
• North Frisian: oxse
• Occitan: buòu (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: волъ m (volŭ)
• Old Norse: oxi m, uxi m
• Old Turkic: 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕‏‎ (öküz)
• Ottoman Turkish: اۊكۏز‏‎ (öküz)
• Persian: گاو‏‎ (fa) (gâv), ورزا‏‎ (fa) (varzâ)
• Polish: wół (pl) m
• Portuguese: boi (pt) m
• Romanian: bou (ro) m
• Romansch: bov
• Russian: вол (ru) m (vol), бык (ru) m (byk) (bull)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: boi m

  Logudorese: boe m

• Scottish Gaelic: damh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во m, вол m, бик m (bull)

  Roman: vo (sh) m, vol (sh) m, bik (sh) m (bull)

• Sichuan Yi: ꇌ (le)
• Slovak: vôl (sk) m
• Slovene: vol (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: woł m

  Upper Sorbian: woł m

• Southern Altai: ӧкӱс (öküs),бука (buka)
• Spanish: buey (es) m, toro (es) m, novillo (es) m
• Swahili: ngʼombe
• Swedish: oxe (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapong baka
• Tamil: காளை (ta) (kāḷai)
• Taos: mùoya’ána, tùlu’úna
• Telugu: ఎద్దు (te) ? (eddu)
• Thai: วัว (th) (wuua), โค (th) (koo)
• Tibetan: གླང (glang)
• Tok Pisin: bulmakau
• Turkish: öküz (tr)
• Ukrainian: віл m (vil), бик (uk) m (byk) (bull)
• Uzbek: bizon (uz), buyvol
• Vietnamese: bò (vi)
• Volapük: hobub (vo)
• Võro: härg
• Welsh: ych (cy) m
• Yiddish: אָקס‏‎ m (oks)

Descendants

• Abenaki: aksen (derived from oxen)
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: akson (derived from oxen)

• Unami: aksën (derived from oxen)

Anagrams

• XO, xo

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Azeri

Other scripts
Cyrillic	ох
Roman	ox
Perso-Arabic	اوْخ‏

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (oq, “arrow”), from Proto-Turkic.

Noun

ox (definite accusative oxu, plural oxlar)

1. arrow

Declension

Declension of ox

	singular	plural
nominative	ox	oxlar
definite accusative	oxu	oxları
dative	oxa	oxlara
locative	oxda	oxlarda
ablative	oxdan	oxlardan
definite genitive	oxun	oxların

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Bonan

Alternative forms

• ok
• oke (Gansu)

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ög-. Cognate to Mongolian өгөх (ögöh) and perhaps Khitan [Khitan Small needed] (û).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɵx/

Noun

ox

1. (Qinghai) to give

   Be Dromada samtexge oxgu tarang erna.

   I want to give a gift to Droma.