cow/translations

This page contains translations for cow. See the main entry for more information.

English

Noun

Translations

female domesticated ox or other bovine

Abkhaz: ажә (aẑʷ)
Acehnese: leumo
Adyghe: чэмы (čɛmə), (Shapsug) чэм (čɛm)
Afar: saga
Afrikaans: koei (af)
Aghwan: 𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕙 (čur)
Ahom: 𑜑𑜥 (hū)
Akan: nantwi
Akhvakh: жиᵸво (žı̇̃vo)
Akkadian: 𒀖 (arhu)
Albanian: lopë (sq) f
Ambonese Malay: sapi
Amharic: ላም (lam)
Apache:
Western Apache: bágashi
Arabic: بَقَرَة (ar) f (baqara)
Egyptian Arabic: بقرة f (baʔara)

Gulf Arabic: بْقَرَة (bgərə)

Hijazi Arabic: بقرة f (bagara)

Iraqi Arabic: هايشة f (hāyša)

Moroccan Arabic: بقرة f (baqra)
Aragonese: vaca f, baca f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܸܪܬܵܐ f (tawirta)

Hebrew: תורתא f (tōrtā, tōrto)

Syriac: ܬܘܪܬܐ f (tōrtā, tōrto)
Archi: хьӏон (x̣on)
Armenian: կով (hy) (kov)
Aromanian: vacã f
Assamese: গাইগৰু (gaigoru), গৰু (goru)
Asturian: vaca (ast) f
Aymara: waka (ay)
Azerbaijani: inək (az)
Baluchi: گوک (gúk, gok)
Bambara: misi
Banjarese: sapi
Bashkir: һыйыр (hıyır)
Basque: behi (eu) f
Bats: ჲეთˁ (yetˁ)
Belarusian: каро́ва (be) f (karóva)
Bemba: nañ-ñombe
Bengali: গাই (bn) (gai), গরু (bn) (goru)
Bhojpuri: गाय (gāy)
Bikol Central: baka (bcl)
Breton: buoc'h (br) f
Bulgarian: кра́ва (bg) f (kráva)
Burmese: နွားမ (my) (nwa:ma.)
Buryat: үнеэн (ünjeen)
Catalan: vaca (ca) f
Cebuano: baka
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵏⴰⵙⵜ f (tafunast)
Central Sierra Miwok: lé·čy-
Chamicuro: waka
Chamorro: guaka
Chechen: етт (jett)
Cherokee: ᏩᎧ (waka), ᏩᎦ (chr) (waga)
Chichewa: ng'ombe
Chickasaw: waaka'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 母牛 (mou⁵ ngau⁴), 牛乸 (ngau⁴ naa²)

Eastern Min: 牛母 (ngù-mō̤)

Hakka: 牛嫲 (ngiù-mà)

Hokkien: 牛母 (zh-min-nan) (gû-bó, gû-bú)

Mandarin: 母牛 (zh) (mǔniú)

Wu: 雌牛 (¹tshy-gnieu), 牛娘
Chinook Jargon: musmus
Chuvash: ӗне (ĕne)
Cornish: bugh f
Corsican: vacca (co) f
Crimean Tatar: sığır, tuvar, sıyır
Czech: kráva (cs) f
Dalmatian: baca f, busca f
Danish: ko (da) c
Daur: unie
Dhivehi: ގެރި (geri)
Dutch: koe (nl) f
Elfdalian: tjyr f
Erzya: скал (skal)
Eshtehardi: گاوَ f (gâva)
Esperanto: bovino (eo)
Estonian: lehm (et) f
Even: хөкэн (hökən)
Evenki: мачалэ (maçalə)
Farefare: naafɔ, na-yã'aŋa
Faroese: kúgv (fo) f
Finnish: lehmä (fi)
French: vache (fr) f
Friulian: vacje f, vačhe f
Fula: nagge
Galician: vaca (gl) f
Georgian: ძროხა (ʒroxa)
German: Kuh (de) f
Alemannic German: Chue f
Gondi: మూర (mūra)
Greek: αγελάδα (el) f (ageláda)
Ancient: βοῦς f (boûs)
Greenlandic: nersussuaq
Gujarati: ગાય (gu) (gāya)
Haitian Creole: vach
Hausa: saniya
Hawaiian: pipi wahine
Hebrew: פָּרָה (he) f (pará)
Hiligaynon: baka
Hindi: गाय (hi) f (gāy), गो (hi) m (go), गऊ (hi) f (gaū), बकर (hi) m (bakar)
Hungarian: tehén (hu)
Icelandic: kýr (is) f, belja (is) f (informal)
Ido: bovino (io)
Inari Sami: kussâ
Indonesian: sapi (id)
Ingrian: lehmä
Interlingua: vacca
Irish: bó (ga) f
Istro-Romanian: våcĕ f
Italian: vacca (it) f, mucca (it) f
Japanese: 雌牛 (ja) (めうし, meushi), 牛 (ja) (うし, ushi)
Javanese: ꦊꦩ꧀ꦧꦸ (jv) (lembu)
Jeju: 암쉐 (amswe)
Kabardian: жэм (kbd) (žɛm)
Kabyle: tafunast f
Kalmyk: үкр (ükr)
Kannada: ಹಸು (kn) (hasu)
Kanuri: fê
Karachay-Balkar: ийнек (iynek)
Karakalpak: sıyır
Karakhanid: اِنْكَكْ (ingek)
Karelian: lehmä
Kashubian: karwa f
Kazakh: сиыр (siyr)
Khakas: інек (ìnek)
Khasi: masi
Khmer: មេគោ (mee koo)
Kildin Sami: лӣхемь (līxjem’)
Komi-Zyrian: мӧс (mös)
Kongo: ngombe
Konkani: गाय f or n (gāy)
Korean: 암소 (ko) (amso)
Kumyk: сыйыр (sıyır), инек (inek)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مانگا (manga), چێڵ (çêll)

Northern Kurdish: çêl (ku), çêlek (ku), mange (ku), manga (ku)
Kyrgyz: уй (ky) (uy)
Ladin: vacia f
Ladino: vaka f
Lao: ງົວ (lo) (ngūa)
Latgalian: gūvs f
Latin: vacca (la) f, bōs (la) f
Latvian: govs (lv) f
Laz: ფუჯი (puci), puci, ფუჯი (puci)
Laz: puci
Limburgish: ków f
Lingala: ngombe, ngɔ́mbɛ́
Lithuanian: kárvė (lt)
Livonian: nī'em
Livvi: lehmy
Low German: Koh f, Koo f, Stark f (young)
Lü: ᦷᦣ (ho), ᦷᦇ (ngo)
Luo: dhiang'
Luxembourgish: Kou (lb) f
Macedonian: крава f (krava)
Makhuwa: enyompé
Malagasy: omby (mg)
Malay: lembu (ms)
Malayalam: പശു (ml) (paśu)
Maltese: baqra f
Manchu: ᡳᡥᠠᠨ (ihan), ᡠᠨᡳᠶᡝᠨ (uniyen)
Manx: booa m
Maori: kau (mi)
Mapudungun: waka
Maranao: sapi'
Marathi: गाय (mr) f (gāy)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: ушкал (uškal)

Western Mari: ышкал (yškal)
Mazanderani: گو (gu)
Megleno-Romanian: vacă f
Minangkabau: jawi (min)
Mòcheno: kua f
Moksha: тракс (traks)
Mon: ဂၠဴ ၝောံ
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үнээ (mn) (ünee)

Mongolian: ᠦᠨᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ (üniy-e)
Moore: naafo, nag-yãanga
Mpade: sha
Mwani: ng'ombe
Nahuatl: vaca (nah)
Nanai: ихан (ihan)
Nepali: गाई (ne) (gāī)
Nivkh: эӻа (eġa)
Nogai: сыйыр (sıyır)
Norman: vaque f
North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) kü f, Kü c (Sylt)
Northern Sami: gussa
Northern Sotho: kgômogadi
Northern Thai: ᨦᩫ᩠ᩅ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ku (no) f or m

Nynorsk: ku f
Nottoway-Meherrin: toskerung
Nubi: bagara
Nuosu: ꑍꃀ (nyip mop)
O'odham: haiwani, haiwañ
Occitan: vaca (oc) f
Ojibwe: ikwe-bizhiki
Okinawan: うし (ushi)
Old East Slavic: корова f (korova)
Old English: cū f
Old Irish: bó f
Old Norse: kýr f
Old Prussian: klente f
Old Turkic: 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (in²gk /⁠ingek⁠/)
Oromo: sa'a, saawwa
Ossetian:
Digor: гъог (ǧog)

Iron: хъуг (qug)
Ottoman Turkish: انك (inek)
Pali: gāvī f
Pannonian Rusyn: крава f (krava)
Pashto: غوا (ps) f (ġwā)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: مادِه‌گاو (mâde-gâv), گاو (fa) (gâv), گُو (gow) (dialectal), گا (fa) (gâ) (dialectal)
Plautdietsch: Koo f
Polabian: korvo f
Polish: krowa (pl) f
Portuguese: vaca (pt) f
Quechua: waka
Rohingya: gai
Romagnol: munghèna f
Romani: gurumni f
Romanian: vacă (ro) f
Romansch: vatga, vacha f
Russian: коро́ва (ru) f (koróva)
Rwanda-Rundi: inka
Saho: saga
Samoan: povi
Sanskrit: धेनु (sa) (dhenu), गो (sa) (go), अघ्न्या (sa) f (aghnyā)
Santali: ᱜᱟᱤ (gai)
Sardinian: bacca f
Saterland Frisian: Ku f
Scots: coo, kye
Scottish Gaelic: bò f, mart m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крȁва f

Roman: krȁva (sh) f
Shan: ငူဝ်း (shn) (ngó), ဝူဝ်း (shn) (wó)
Shona: mhóu
Shor: нек (nek)
Sicilian: vacca (scn) f
Sidamo: sa'a
Sindhi: گانءِ (gānʾi)
Sinhalese: දෙන (si) (dena)
Skolt Sami: kuss
Slovak: krava (sk) f
Slovene: krava (sl) f
Slovincian: krôva f
Somali: sac (so) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: krowa f

Upper Sorbian: kruwa f
Southern Altai: уй (uy), инек (inek), ийнек (iynek), сыйыр (sïyïr)
Southern Sami: govse
Spanish: vaca (es) f
Sranan Tongo: kaw
Sumerian: 𒀖
Svan: ფუ̈რ (pür)
Swahili: ng'ombe (sw)
Swazi: ín-khomâti
Swedish: ko (sv) c, kossa (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠉꠞꠥ (goru)
Tabasaran: хюни (ꭓjuni)
Tagalog: baka (tl)
Tajik: гов (tg) (gov), модагов (modagov)
Tamil: பசு (ta) (pacu)
Taos: kòsiʼína
Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵏⴰⵙⵜ f (tafunast), ⵜⴰⵎⵓⴳⴰⵢⵜ f (tamugayt)
Tatar: сыер (tt) (sıyer)
Tausug: baka
Tedim Chin: bawng
Telugu: ఆవు (te) (āvu), గోవు (te) (gōvu)
Thai: วัว (th) (wuua), โค (th) (koo)
Tibetan: བ་ཕྱུགས (ba phyugs)
Tigrinya: ላም (lam)
Tocharian A: ko
Tocharian B: keu
Tok Pisin: bulmakau meri
Tongan: pulu fefine
Tumbuka: ng'ombe
Turkish: inek (tr), sığır (tr)
Turkmen: sygyr
Udi: чур (čur)
Udmurt: скал (skal)
Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗𐎃 (ʿrḫ)
Ukrainian: коро́ва (uk) f (koróva)
Urdu: گای f (gāī), گو f (go), گَئُو f (gaū), بَقَر m (baqar)
Uyghur: ئىنەك (ug) (inek), كالا (ug) (kala), سېغىن كالا (sëghin kala), سىيىر (siyir)
Uzbek: sigir (uz)
Venetan: vaca (vec) f
Veps: lehm
Vietnamese: bò cái
Volapük: kun (vo), jibub (vo)
Voro: lehm
Votic: lehme
Walloon: vatche (wa) f
Welsh: buwch (cy) f
West Frisian: ko c
White Hmong: nyuj
Wolof: nag wi (wo), nag (wo)
Xhosa: inkomo class 9/10
Yagnobi: ғов (ġov)
Yakut: ынах (ınaq)
Yiddish: קו f (ku)
Yoruba: abo màluu
Yucatec Maya: wakax
Zazaki: monga (diq), manga (diq), gew, gaun f
Zhuang: vaizmeh, cwzvaiz
Zou: bong
Zulu: inkomazi class 9/10, imazi class 9/10

any domestic bovine regardless of sex or age

Aghwan: 𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕙 (čur)
Ainu: ペコ (peko)
Arabic: بَقَرَة (ar) sg (baqara), بَقَر (ar) (baqar) (collective), اَبْقَار pl (abqār)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܪܵܐ m (tawra)
Balinese: ᬲᬫ᭄ᬧᬶ (sampi)
Burmese: နွား (my) (nwa:)
Catalan: vaca (ca) f, toro (ca) m, taur (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏩᎦ (chr) (waga)
Chichewa: ng'ombe
Chickasaw: waaka'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 牛 (ngau⁴)

Eastern Min: 牛 (ngù)

Hakka: 牛 (ngiù)

Hokkien: 牛 (zh-min-nan) (gû)

Mandarin: 牛 (zh) (niú)

Wu: 牛 (³nieu)
Czech: tur (cs) f, skot (cs) m
Danish: ko (da) c
Dutch: rund (nl) n
Eastern Cham: ꨤꨟꨯꨱꨥ
Esperanto: bovo (eo)
Estonian: vissi (informal; call-name; endearing)
Farefare: naafɔ
Finnish: nauta (fi)
French: bovin (fr) m, vache (fr) f
Fula: nagge
German: Rind (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: βοῦς m or f (boûs)
Haitian Creole: bèf
Hawaiian: pipi
Hebrew: פרה (he) f (pará)
Hindi: गोरू (hi) m pl (gorū), गाय (hi) f (gāy), गो (hi) m (go), गऊ (hi) f (gaū), बकर (hi) m (bakar)
Hopi: waakasi
Hungarian: szarvasmarha (hu), marha (hu)
Icelandic: nautgripur m, kýr (is) f (in plural only)
Ido: bovo (io)
Indonesian: lembu (id)
Irish: bó (ga) f
Italian: bovino (it) m
Japanese: 牛 (ja) (うし, ushi)
Jeju: 쉐 (swe)
Kalmyk: үкр (ükr)
Kannada: ದನ (kn) (dana), ಹಸು (kn) (hasu)
Khasi: masi
Khmer: គោ (km) (koo)
Korean: 소 (ko) (so)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مانگا (manga)
Latin: bōs (la) m or f
Low German: Rind n
Luxembourgish: Kou (lb) f
Macedonian: крава f (krava)
Malay: lembu (ms)
Manchu: ᡳᡥᠠᠨ (ihan)
Maricopa: 'iikway
Mohawk: tiohnhónskwaron
Mongolian: үхэр (mn) (üxer)
Moore: naafo
Mwani: ng'ombe
Navajo: béégashii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ku (no) f or m

Nynorsk: ku f
Ojibwe: bizhiki
Okinawan: うし (ushi)
Old English: cū f
Persian: گاو (fa) (gâv)
Plautdietsch: Rint n
Portuguese: bovino (pt) m, bovídeo (pt) m
Romani: guruv m
Russian: коро́ва (ru) f (koróva), бык (ru) m (byk) (bull)
Scottish Gaelic: mart m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крȁва f

Roman: krȁva (sh) f
Shor: нек (nek)
Slovene: krava (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gowjedo n

Upper Sorbian: howjado n
Spanish: bovino (es) m
Sumerian: 𒄞 (gu₄, gud /⁠gu⁠/)
Swahili: ng'ombe (sw)
Swedish: nötkreatur (sv) n
Tamil: மாடு (ta) (māṭu)
Tibetan: བ་ཕྱུགས (ba phyugs)
Tocharian B: okso
Tok Pisin: bulmakau
Tswana: ^{(please verify)} kgomo class 9/10
Turkish: sığır (tr)
Udi: чур (čur)
Vietnamese: bò (vi)
Volapük: (male or female) bub (vo)
Western Cham: لمۉ lemou, مۉ mou
White Hmong: nyuj
Wolof: nag (wo)
Wutunhua: nek
Yoruba: mààlúù, màlúù, elilá
Zazaki: naxır (diq) c
Zhuang: cwz, moz

female of various species of mammal

Chinese:
Mandarin: 母獸 / 母兽 (zh) (mǔshòu)
Czech: kráva (cs) f
Danish: ko (da) c (of any bovine and manatees), hun (da) c (of whales, seals, elephants, etc.)
Dutch: koe (nl) f
Esperanto: ino (eo)
Estonian: lehm (et) f
Faroese: kúgv (fo) f
Finnish: lehmä (fi)
French: vache (fr) f (of any bovine), femelle (fr) f (of the whale, seal, manatee, elephant, etc.)
German: Kuh (de) f
Hungarian: tehén (hu)
Icelandic: kýr (is) f (of bovines, manatees, whales; also of reindeer and elk/moose)
Irish: bó (ga) f
Italian: vacca (it) f, (of any bovine) mucca (it) f, (of the seal, whale, manatee, etc.) femmina (it) f, (of the elephant) elefantessa (it) f
Japanese: 雌 (ja) (めす, mesu)
Macedonian: женка f (ženka)
Manchu: ᡝᠮᡳᠯᡝ (emile)
Ojibwe: noozhez (of moose, mare, deer, elk, carabou, hind), noozhe-bizhiki (of buffalo, bison), noozhe-mooz (of moose)
Portuguese: use the animal’s name + -fêmea (pt)
Romanian: femelă (ro)
Scottish Gaelic: bò f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крȁва f

Roman: krȁva (sh) f
Slovene: krava (sl) f
Swedish: ko (sv) c (of bovines and elk/moose)
Tok Pisin: meri
Vietnamese: cái (vi)
Zazaki: manker m

derogatory: despicable woman

Armenian: կով (hy) (kov)
Catalan: vaca (ca) f, bruixa (ca) f, foca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: kráva (cs) f
Danish: ko (da) c
Dutch: domme koe f
Estonian: lehm (et) f
Finnish: lehmä (fi)
French: garce (fr) f, chipie (fr) f
German: Kuh (de) f
Greek: αγελάδα (el) f (ageláda)
Hebrew: פרה (he) f (pará)
Hungarian: spiné (hu) (literally “broad”), tyúk (hu) (literally “hen”)
Icelandic: belja (is) f
Italian: stronza (it) f, bastarda (it) f, vacca (it) f
Latvian: govs (lv) f
Luxembourgish: Kouh f
Macedonian: крава f (krava)
Ojibwe: majiikwe
Polish: krowa (pl) f
Portuguese: vaca (pt) f, bruxa (pt) f
Romanian: vacă (ro) f
Russian: коро́ва (ru) f (koróva)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крȁва f

Roman: krȁva (sh) f
Slovene: krava (sl) f
Spanish: bruja (es) f
Swahili: ng'ombe (sw)
Swedish: kossa (sv) c
Turkish: kancık (tr)
West Frisian: ko c
Zazaki: manker m

informal: anything annoyingly difficult

Catalan: marró (ca) m, pedra (ca) f
Danish: lort (da) c, bæ c, bræk (da) c
Hungarian: nehéz dolog
Ojibwe: aanimakamigiziwin

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

Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} koei (af)
Albanian: ^{(please verify)} lopë (sq) f, ^{(please verify)} kau i egër
Basque: ^{(please verify)} behi (eu)
Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} жывела f (žyvjela)
Breton: ^{(please verify)} buoc’h (br) f, ^{(please verify)} buoc’hed (br) pl, ^{(please verify)} saout (br) pl
Choctaw: ^{(please verify)} wak
Friulian: ^{(please verify)} vacje
Galician: ^{(please verify)} vaca (gl) f
Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: ^{(please verify)} 'qwaaka
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} lembu (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vacca
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 소 (ko) (so), ^{(please verify)} 암소 (ko) (amso)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} çêl (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} çêlek (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} mange (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} mang (ku) f
Ladin: ^{(please verify)} vacia
Latin: ^{(please verify)} vacca (la) f, ^{(please verify)} bos (la) m or f
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} karvė (lt) f (1, 3)
Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} крава f (krava)
Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} പശു (ml) (paśu)
Maltese: ^{(please verify)} baqra f
Maléku Jaíka: ^{(please verify)} teptep
Mohawk: ^{(please verify)} tyonnhonhskwaron
Occitan: ^{(please verify)} vaca (oc) f
Old Norse: ^{(please verify)} ko, ^{(please verify)} ku
Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} bulu, ^{(please verify)} óinu, ^{(please verify)} bàcchinu, ^{(please verify)} bóinu, ^{(please verify)} bacca, ^{(please verify)} vacca
Seri: ^{(please verify)} ziix cooha, ^{(please verify)} heen, ^{(please verify)} hant csii (archaic)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} sığır (tr), ^{(please verify)} inek (tr)
Walloon: ^{(please verify)} vatche (wa)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} buwch (cy) f
Yucatec Maya: ^{(please verify)} wakaš

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