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English
Etymology
From Middle English couherde, from Old English cūhierde, equivalent to cow + herd (“herder”). Doublet of Coward (the surname). Cognate with German Kuhhirte (“cowherd”). Compare shepherd, goatherd, swineherd, etc.
Noun
cowherd (plural cowherds)
- A person who herds cattle; a cowboy.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a person who herds cattle
- Assamese: গৰখীয়া (gorokhia), গোৱাল (güal)
- Basque: unai, behizain
- Bulgarian: кравар (bg) m (kravar), говедар (bg) m (govedar)
- Catalan: vaquer (ca) m
- Danish: kohyrde c (archaic)
- Finnish: karjapaimen (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: vachier m
- French: vacher (fr), vachère (fr), bouvier (fr) m, bouvière (fr) f
- Friulian: boâr m, vacjâr m
- German: Kuhhirte (de) m, Kuhhirt (de) m, Kuhhirtin (de) f, Viehhirte m, Viehhirt m, Viehhirtin f, Cowboy (de) m, Cowgirl (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: βουκόλος m (boukólos)
- Hungarian: gulyás (hu), marhapásztor (hu)
- Ingrian: lehmäpaimen, lehmuri
- Irish: buachaill bó m, aoire bó m
- Italian: vaccaio m, mandriano (it) m, bovaro (it) m
- Japanese: 牛飼い (ja) (うしかい, ushi-kai)
- Latin: bubulcus m, vaccārius m
- Macedonian: кравар m (kravar), говедар m (govedar)
- Mazanderani: گالش (gâleš)
- Middle English: couherde
- Norman: vachi m
- Occitan: vaquièr (oc) m
- Old English: cūhierde m
- Persian: گاوچران (fa)
- Portuguese: vaqueiro (pt) m
- Romanian: văcar (ro) m, boar (ro) m
- Russian: пасту́х (ru) m (pastúx), ско́тник (ru) m (skótnik)
- Sanskrit: गोपाल (sa) m (gopāla)
- Sardinian: boinarzu m, boinàgiu m, boinàrgiu m
- Sicilian: mandriotu (scn) m, vaccaru m
- Spanish: vaquero (es) m
- Swedish: koherde
- Venetian: boaro m, boar, boer
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Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
cowherd
- Alternative form of couherde