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Revision as of 13:47, 19 June 2023

See also: Zebu, zébu, and zebù

English

Etymology

From French zébu, from Tibetan (perhaps མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, male bull-yak hybrid), whence also zobo).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈziː.buː/, /ˈziː.bjuː/, /ˈzɛ.buː/, /ˈzɛ.bjuː/, /ˈzeɪ.buː/, /ˈzeɪ.bjuː/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛbjuː, -eɪbuː, -eɪbjuː

Noun

zebu (plural zebus)

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

Synonyms

A zebu (kind of bovine).

Translations

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Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

zebu m anim

  1. zebu (type of ox)

Declension

Also indeclinable.

Indonesian

Noun

zebu (first-person possessive zebuku, second-person possessive zebumu, third-person possessive zebunya)

  1. zebu

Japanese

Romanization

zebu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゼブ

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

zebu m (definite singular zebuen, indefinite plural zebuer, definite plural zebuene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by sebu

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Noun

zebu n

  1. zebu

Further reading

  • zebu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • zebu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu,[1][2] from Tibetan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ze‧bu

Noun

zebu m (plural zebus)

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

References

  1. ^ zebu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ zebu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu.

Noun

zebu m (uncountable)

  1. zebu

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

zebu (Cyrillic spelling зебу)

  1. accusative singular of zeba