she-goat

English

A she-goat.

Alternative forms

• shegoat

Etymology

From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- +‎ goat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiː.ɡəʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.ɡoʊt/

Noun

she-goat (plural she-goats)

1. A female goat.

   Synonyms: nanny goat, nanny, doe

   Coordinate terms: he-goat, billy goat, billy, buck, goat, kid

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:

     At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.

Translations

female goat

• Albanian: dhi (sq) f
• Arabic: مَعْزة (maʕza)
• Armenian: այծ (hy) (ayc)
• Asturian: cabra (ast)
• Bulgarian: коза́ (bg) f (kozá)
• Burmese: ဆိတ်မ (my) (hcitma.)
• Catalan: cabra (ca) f
• Chinese: 羭 (zh) (yú)

  Mandarin: 山羊 (zh) (shānyáng)

• Czech: koza (cs) f
• Dalmatian: capraina f
• Dutch: geit (nl)
• Esperanto: kaprino
• Finnish: kuttu (fi)
• French: chèvre (fr) f, bique (fr) f (colloquial)
• Galician: godalla f, xena f, cabuxa f, bode-seixo f, cabirta f, craba f
• German: Geiß (de) f (Austrian, Swiss, South German), Mutterziege f, Zibbe (de) f, Zicke (de) f, Ziege (de) f, Ziegenweibchen n
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 f (gaits)
• Greek: αίγα (el) f (aíga)

  Ancient: αἴξ f (aíx)

• Hebrew: עֵז (he) f (éz)
• Hungarian: nőstény kecske, anyakecske
• Ido: kaprino (io)
• Italian: capra (it) f
• Japanese: 山羊 (ja) (yagi)
• Kashmiri: ژھاوٕج (ks) (ċhāvụj)
• Khiamniungan Naga: ūosāng
• Latin: capra f, capella f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Zeeg f, Zääg f, Seeg f, Sääg f

• Macedonian: коза (mk) f (koza)
• Navajo: tłʼízítsaʼii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geit (no) c

  Nynorsk: geit f

• Old Church Slavonic: коза f (koza)
• Pali: ajā f
• Polish: koza (pl) f
• Portuguese: cabra (pt) f
• Romanian: capră (ro) f
• Russian: коза́ (ru) f (kozá)
• Sanskrit: अजा (sa) f (ajā)
• Serbo-Croatian: koza (sh) f
• Sicilian: crapa (scn) f
• Spanish: cabra (es) f
• Tocharian B: ās
• Turkish: dişi keçi
• Ukrainian: коза́ (uk) f (kozá), цапи́ха (uk) f (capýxa), козли́ця f (kozlýcja), коза́-дереза́ f (kozá-derezá)
• Volapük: jikapar (vo)

See also

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Anagrams

• he-goats, hostage