zoo

See also: Zoo, zôo, zōo, zoo-, -zoo, zo'o, and zoö-

English

Elephants in a zoo

Etymology

Clipping of zoological garden, now the usual form. See zoology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

zoo (plural zoos)

1. A park where live animals are exhibited.
   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.

2. (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

   The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.

3. (US, military, slang) The jungle.
   • 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)

     I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• like feeding time at the zoo
• morning zoo
• particle zoo

• petting zoo
• zoo format
• zoo plane

Related terms

Related terms

• zoo-
• zooey
• zooish

• zoolike
• zoologist
• zoology

Translations

park where live animals are exhibited

• Afrikaans: dieretuin
• Albanian: kopësht zoologjik m
• Arabic: حَدِيقَة الْحَيَوَان f (ḥadīqat al-ḥayawānāt)

  Egyptian Arabic: جنينة الحيوانات f (genenet el-ḥayawanat)

• Armenian: (formal) կենդանաբանական այգի (hy) (kendanabanakan aygi), (informal) գազանանոց (hy) (gazananocʻ)
• Assamese: চিৰিয়াখানা (siriakhana)
• Asturian: zoolóxicu m
• Azerbaijani: zoologiya parkı
• Belarusian: заапа́рк m (zaapárk), заалагі́чны парк m (zaalahíčny park)
• Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা (bn) (ciṛiẏakhana)
• Bulgarian: зоопа́рк m (zoopárk), зоологи́ческа гради́на f (zoologíčeska gradína)
• Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန်ရုံ (my) (ti.rachcanrum), တိရစ္ဆာန်ဥယျာဉ် (my) (ti.rachcan-u.yyany)
• Catalan: zoològic m
• Central Dusun: zoo
• Central Melanau: zoo
• Cherokee: ᏧᎾᏓᎴᎸᏓᏧᏂᏙᏗ (tsunadalelvdatsunidodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 動物園／动物园 (dung⁶ mat⁶ jyun⁴), 动物园 (dung⁶ mat⁶ jyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 動物園／动物园 (zh) (dòngwùyuán), 动物园 (zh) (dòngwùyuán)

• Cornish: milva f
• Czech: zoo (cs) f, zoologická zahrada (cs) f
• Danish: zoo c, zoologisk have c
• Dutch: dierentuin (nl), zoo (nl)
• Erzya: ракшапире (rakšapiŕe)
• Esperanto: zoo (eo), bestoĝardeno, zoologia ĝardeno
• Estonian: loomaaed (et)
• Finnish: eläintarha (fi)
• French: zoo (fr) m
• Galician: zoolóxico m, parque zoolóxico m, zoo (gl) m
• Georgian: ზოოპარკი (ka) (zooṗarḳi)
• German: Zoo (de) m, Tiergarten (de) m, Tierpark (de) m
• Greek: ζωολογικός κήπος (el) m (zoologikós kípos)
• Hebrew: גַּן חַיּוֹת (he) m (gan khayót), גן זואולוגי m (gan zo'ológi)
• Hindi: चिड़ियाघर (hi) m (ciṛiyāghar)
• Hungarian: állatkert (hu)
• Icelandic: dýragarður (is) m
• Ido: zoo (io), menajerio (io), animalparko
• Inari Sami: elleekärdi
• Indonesian: kebun binatang (id)
• Irish: zú (ga) m, gairdín ainmhithe m
• Italian: zoo (it) m
• Japanese: 動物園 (ja) (どうぶつえん, dōbutsuen)
• Kazakh: хайуанаттар бағы (xaiuanattar bağy)
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• Khmer: សួនសត្វ (suən sat), ឧទ្យានសត្វ (ʼuttyiən sat)
• Korean: 동물원 (ko) (dongmurwon), (動物園 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: ажайыпкана (ky) (ajayıpkana)
• Lao: ສວນສັດ (lo) (sūan sat)
• Latin: vīvārium n
• Latvian: zooloģiskais dārzs m
• Lithuanian: zoologijos sodas m
• Macedonian: зоолошка градина f (zoološka gradina)
• Malay: zoo (ms), kebun binatang, taman haiwan
• Maltese: żu m
• Mongolian: амьтны хүрээлэн (amʹtny xüreelen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dyrehage m

  Nynorsk: dyrehage m

• Persian: باغ وحش (fa) (bâğ-e vahš)
• Polish: zoo (pl) n, ogród zoologiczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: zoológico (pt) m, jardim zoológico m
• Quechua: k'ita uywap wasin
• Romanian: zoo (ro) f, parc zoologic (ro) n, grădină zoologică (ro) f, zooparc (ro) n
• Russian: зоопа́рк (ru) m (zoopárk), зоологи́ческий сад m (zoologíčeskij sad), зооса́д (ru) m (zoosád), звери́нец (ru) m (zverínec) (menagerie)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зоолошки врт m, зверињак m

  Roman: zoološki vrt m, zverinjak m

• Shan: သူၼ်သတ်း (sǔun sát)
• Slovak: zoologická záhrada f, zoo m
• Slovene: živalski vrt m
• Spanish: zoo (es) m, jardín zoo m, zoológico (es) m
• Swahili: bustani ya wanyama
• Swedish: zoo (sv) n, djurpark (sv) c
• Tajik: боғи ҳайвонот (boġi hayvonot)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: జంతుప్రదర్శనశాల (jantupradarśanaśāla)
• Thai: สวนสัตว์ (sǔuan-sàt)
• Turkish: hayvanat bahçesi (tr)
• Turkmen: haýwanat bagy
• Ukrainian: зоопа́рк m (zoopárk)
• Urdu: چڑیاگھر m (ciṛiyāghar)
• Uzbek: hayvonot bogʻi
• Vietnamese: thảo cầm viên, sở thú (vi)
• Walloon: zô (wa) m, djårdén zolodjike m, djårdén d' aclimataedje m
• Welsh: sw m, milodfa f
• Yiddish: זאָאָגאָרטן m (zoogortn), זאָאָלאָגישער גאָרטן m (zoologisher gortn), זאָאָפּאַרק m (zoopark)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈzo.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈzo.o]

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoològic.
   • 2016 November 9, “'Midnight Cowboy'”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:

     O sigui, els sorolls del zoo de demòcrates i republicans.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Noun

zoo f

1. zoo

Synonyms

• zoologická zahrada

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Danish

Etymology

From English zoo

Noun

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)

1. a zoo, zoological garden

Synonyms

• zoologisk have

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zoː/
• IPA^(key): /zuː/, /zoː/
• Hyphenation: zoo
• Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)

1. (chiefly Belgium) zoo

Synonyms

• dierentuin, diergaarde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adverb

zoo

1. Archaic spelling of zo.

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Esperanto

Etymology

Clipping of zoologia ĝardeno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzoo/
• Hyphenation: zo‧o
• Rhymes: -oo

• Audio:

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Noun

zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)

1. zoo

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo/, /zo.o/

• audio:

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Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoologique

Further reading

• “zoo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdzɔ.o/

Noun

zoo m (uncountable)

1. zoo

Related terms

• giardino zoologico

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Malay

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu/
• Rhymes: -zu, -u

Noun

zoo

1. zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

Synonyms

• kebun binatang
• taman haiwan

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔ.ɔ/

Noun

zoo n (indeclinable)

1. zoo

Synonyms

• ogród zoologiczny

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Portuguese

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoológico.

Verb

zoo

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθo/ [ˈθo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈso/ [ˈso]

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoológico

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔrɔŋH (“good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʐɒ̃˧/

Adjective

zoo

1. good

Derived terms

• mus zoo
• nyob zoo

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.