zébu
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male offspring of a female cow and yak bull”), from Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, from མཛོ (mdzo, “cow and yak hybrid”) + པོ (po, “suffix for males”)); or, from a similar Tibeto-Burman source, such as Tibetan ཟེ་བ (ze ba, “zebu or camel's hump”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
zébu m (plural zébus, feminine zébue or zébute)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “zebu”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading[edit]
- “zébu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.