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English
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Etymology
From the name Billy, early 19th c.
Noun
billy goat (plural billy goats)
- (childish) A male goat.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 141:There were once upon a time three Billy-goats, who were going up into the hills to get fat.
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male goat
- Albanian: sqap (sq) m, cjap (sq) m,
- Arabic: تَيْس (ar) m (tays)
- Hijazi Arabic: تيس m (tēs)
- Armenian: նոխազ (hy) (noxaz), քաղ (hy) (kʻaġ), քոշ (hy) (kʻoš)
- Assamese: মতা ছাগলী (mota sagoli); (uncastrated): ভোবোলা (bhübüla), ভোবোলা ছাগলী (bhübüla sagoli) ভোবোৰা (bhübüra), ভোবোৰা ছাগলী (bhübüra sagoli)
- Asturian: castrón (ast), cabrón (ast)
- Avestan: 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀 m (būza)
- Bashkir: тәкә (təkə), кәзә тәкәһе (kəzə təkəhe)
- Basque: aker
- Belarusian: казёл m (kazjól)
- Breton: bouc’h (br) m
- Bulgarian: козе́л (bg) m (kozél) пръч (bg) m (prǎč)
- Burmese: ဆိတ်ထီး (my) (hcithti:)
- Catalan: boc (ca) m, cabró (ca) m
- Chechen: бож class jj (bož)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 雄山羊 (xióng shānyáng)
- Czech: kozel (cs) m
- Danish: buk c, gedebuk c
- Dutch: bok (nl) m
- Edo: ovbukhọ
- Esperanto: virkapro (eo), boko (eo), kapriĉo (neologism)
- Faroese: geitarbukkur m, bukkur m, havur m, geitarhavur m
- Finnish: pukki (fi)
- French: bouc (fr) m
- Friulian: cjavron m, čhavron m
- Galician: castrón (gl) m, bode (gl) m, cabrón (gl) m, godallo (gl) m
- Georgian: ვაცი (vaci)
- German: Ziegenbock (de) m, Geißbock (de) m, Bock (de) m, Ziegenmännchen n
- Alemannic German: Geissbock m
- Middle High German: bock m
- Old High German: boc m
- Greek: τράγος (el) m (trágos), τραγί (el) n (tragí)
- Ancient: τράγος m (trágos)
- Hebrew: תַּיִשׁ (he) m (táyish)
- Hungarian: bakkecske (hu)
- Ido: kaprulo (io)
- Igala: òbúkọ
- Interlingua: capro
- Irish: poc gabhair m, pocán m, boc m
- Old Irish: bocc m
- Italian: caprone (it) m, becco (it) m, capro (it) m, irco (it) m
- Jamaican Creole: ram goat
- Japanese: 雄山羊 (おやぎ, oyagi), 雄ヤギ (おやぎ, oyagi)
- Kashmiri: ژھاوُل (ks) (ċhāvul)
- Kazakh: теке (teke)
- Korean: 숫염소 (sudyeomso)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: nêrî (ku) m
- Latin: hircus m, caper (la) m
- Latvian: āzis (lv) m
- Lezgi: кьун (q̇un)
- Lithuanian: ožỹs (lt) m
- Low German: Buck (nds) m, Zegenbuck m, Zägenbuck m, Segenbuck m, Sägenbuck m
- Luxembourgish: Geessebock m
- Macedonian: јарец m (jarec), прч m (prč)
- Manx: bock goayr m
- Middle English: bucke
- Mongolian: ухна (mn) (uxna)
- Navajo: tłʼízíchǫǫh, tłʼízíkąʼ
- Norman: bichot m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: geitebukk m
- Nynorsk: geitebukk m
- Occitan: boc (oc) m
- Old Church Slavonic: козьлъ m (kozĭlŭ)
- Old English: bucca m, hæfer m
- Old Norse: hafr m, bukkr m
- Old Prussian: azuks m
- Ottoman Turkish: تكه (teke), اركج (erkec)
- Persian: تگه (tage), کل (fa) (kal), شاک (fa) (šâk), نهاز (fa) (nohâz)
- Polish: kozioł (pl) m, (old male): cap (pl) m
- Portuguese: bode (pt) m, cabrão (pt) m
- Romanian: țap (ro) m
- Russian: козёл (ru) m (kozjól)
- Sanskrit: अज (sa) m (aja), छाग (sa) m (chāga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ја̏рац m
- Roman: jȁrac (sh) m
- Sicilian: beccu (scn) m
- Slovak: cap (sk) m, kozel m
- Slovene: kozel (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kózoł m
- Upper Sorbian: kоzоł m
- Spanish: cabro (es) m, cabrón (es) m
- Swahili: beberu (sw)
- Swedish: bock (sv) c
- Tagalog: lambayan
- Turkish: teke (tr)
- Ukrainian: козе́л (uk) m (kozél), цап (uk) m (cap)
- Uyghur: تېكە (tëke)
- Venetian: cavron
- Volapük: hikapar (vo)
- Walloon: bok (wa) m
- Welsh: bwch m
- Wolof: sikket bi
- Yiddish: צאַפּ m (tsap), באָק m (bok)
- Yoruba: òbúkọ, òrúkọ
- Zazaki: khel
- Zulu: imbuzi yebhili
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