wisent

See also: Wisent

English

A wisent.

Etymology

From German Wisent. Doublet of bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪzənt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzənt/

Noun

wisent (plural wisents)

1. The European bison, Bison bonasus.

Synonyms

• European bison, zubr

Hypernyms

• (a member of the Genus Bison): bison
• (a cloven-hoofed ruminant mammal of the subfamily Bovinae, cattle): bovine
• (a hoofed mammal chewing cud): ruminant

Hyponyms

• (only surviving purebred subspecies, Bison bonasus bonasus): lowland wisent
• (subspecies only surviving as a hybrid, Bison bonasus caucasicus): Caucasian wisent
• (extinct subspecies, Bison bonasus hungarorum): Carpathian wisent

Translations

European bison, Bison bonasus

• Arabic: بَيْسُون أُورُوبِّيّ‎ m (baysūn ʾurubbiyy)
• Azerbaijani: zubr
• Basque: bisonte europar
• Belarusian: narkamawka: зубр m (zubr), taraškievica: зу́бар m (zúbar)
• Breton: bizon europa
• Bulgarian: зу́бър (bg) m (zúbǎr)
• Catalan: bisó europeu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野牛 (zh) (yěniú), 歐洲野牛, 欧洲野牛 (Ōuzhōu yěniú)

• Czech: zubr (cs) m
• Danish: visent, europæisk bison
• Dutch: wisent (nl) m
• Esperanto: visento, eŭropa bizono
• Estonian: pürg (et)
• Faroese: visundur
• Finnish: visentti (fi)
• French: bison d'Europe (fr) m
• Friulian: bisont european
• Galician: bisonte europeo, bisonoxe europeo
• Georgian: დომბა (domba)
• German: Wisent (de) m, Europäischer Bison m
• Greek: βόνασος ευρωπαϊκώς m (vónasos evropaïkós)
• Hungarian: európai bölény
• Icelandic: evrópskur vísundur m
• Irish: bíosún
• Italian: bisonte europeo m
• Japanese: ヨーロッパバイソン (Yōroppa baison)
• Kashubian: żuber m, dated zãbrz m
• Kazakh: зубр (zwbr)
• Kyrgyz: зубр (zubr)
• Ladin: bisont european
• Latin: bisōn m
• Latvian: sumbrs m

• Lithuanian: stumbras (lt) m
• Maltese: buflu ta’ l-ewropa m
• Navajo: Béésh Bichʼahnii bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ ayání
• Northern Sami: visenta, eurohpá bison
• Norwegian: visent
• Occitan: bisont d'Euròpa
• Old Prussian: wissambris, zambrus
• Persian: ویسنت‎ (visent)
• Polish: żubr (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisão europeu m, bisonte europeu m
• Romanian: zimbru (ro) m
• Romansch: bison europaic
• Russian: зубр (ru) m (zubr)
• Sardinian: boi europeu, boe europeu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зубар m, еуропски бизон m

  Roman: zubar (sh) m, europski bizon m

• Slovak: zubor (sk) m
• Slovene: zober m
• Sorbian:

  Lower: zubr m

  Upper: zubr (hsb) m

• Spanish: bisonte europeo m
• Sudovian: zambras m
• Swedish: visent (sv), europeisk bison (sv)
• Tajik: зубр (zubr)
• Turkish: Avrupa bizonu
• Turkmen: zubr
• Ukrainian: зубр m (zubr)
• Uzbek: zubr (uz)
• Welsh: ych gwyllt (cy)
• West Frisian: wisint
• Zazaki: bizonê Ewropa

Anagrams

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