zebu

See also: Zebu, zébu, and zebù

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French zébu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Tibetan (perhaps མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male bull-yak hybrid”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈziː.buː/, /ˈziː.bjuː/, /ˈzɛ.buː/, /ˈzɛ.bjuː/, /ˈzeɪ.buː/, /ˈzeɪ.bjuː/

Noun

zebu (plural zebus)

1. A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap ().

Synonyms

• Indian ox

A zebu (kind of bovine).

Translations

domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘤牛 (zh) (liúniú), 犛牛／牦牛 (zh), 牦牛 (zh) (máoniú)

• Czech: zebu (cs)
• Dutch: zeboe (nl) m
• Finnish: seebu
• French: zébu (fr) m
• Georgian: ზებუ (zebu)
• German: Zebu (de) n, Buckelrind n
• Greek: ζεμπού (zempoú)
• Ido: zebuo (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: zebù (it) m
• Japanese: 瘤牛 (kobuushi), 犎牛 (hōgyū), インド牛 (indoushi), ゼブ (zebu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malagasy: jamoka (mg)
• Portuguese: zebu (pt) m
• Russian: зе́бу (ru) m (zébu)
• Spanish: cebú m
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} درباني
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• Appendix:List of sequence animal genomes/October 2014

Further reading

• zebu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bos indicus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bos taurus indicus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Japanese

Romanization

zebu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゼブ

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.bu/

Noun

zebu n

1. zebu

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu, from Tibetan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ze.ˈbu/

Noun

zebu m (plural s)

1. zebu (domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa)

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

zebu (Cyrillic spelling зебу)

1. accusative singular of zeba