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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From live + stock.
Pronunciation
Noun
livestock (usually uncountable, plural livestocks)
- Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.
Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.
Much livestock was slaughtered due to high feed prices.
In the West there are local areas with too many livestock.
Women herded small livestocks such as goats and sheep.
Usage notes
The phrase "head of livestock", with head as a collective noun, refers to an individual farm animal without specifying the species.
Derived terms
Translations
farm animals
- Arabic: (indefinite) مَوَاشٍ f pl (mawāšin), أَنْعَام (ar) f pl (ʔanʕām), دَوَاجِن f pl (dawājin) (birds)
- Egyptian Arabic: مواشي f pl (mawāšī), دواجن f pl (dawāgen)
- Moroccan Arabic: بهايم m (bhāyim), كسيبة (ksība)
- Armenian: անասուն (hy) pl (anasun)
- Asturian: ganáu m
- Azerbaijani: mal-qara
- Bashkir: мал (mal)
- Basque: azienda, abere
- Belarusian: бы́дла n (býdla)
- Bulgarian: добитък (bg) m (dobitǎk)
- Catalan: bestiar (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 家畜 (zh) (jiāchù), 牲畜 (zh) (shēngchù)
- Czech: dobytek (cs) m
- Dutch: vee (nl) n, veestapel (nl) m
- Finnish: karja (fi)
- French: cheptel vif m, bétail (fr) m
- Galician: gando (gl) m, gado (gl) m
- Georgian: პირუტყვი (ṗiruṭq̇vi), საქონელი (sakoneli)
- German: Vieh (de) n, Nutztiere (de) n pl, Nutzvieh (de) n
- Greek: ζωικό κεφάλαιο n (zoïkó kefálaio)
- Ancient: κτῆνη n pl (ktênē)
- Hungarian: haszonállat (hu), jószág (hu), lábasjószág (hu), állatállomány (hu)
- Icelandic: búfé n
- Irish: stoc m
- Italian: bestiame (it) m
- Japanese: 家畜 (ja) (かちく, kachiku)
- Kabuverdianu: limária
- Kannada: ದನ (kn) (dana)
- Karakalpak: mal
- Kazakh: түлік (tülık)
- Korean: 가축 (ko) (gachuk)
- Latin: pecus n, pecuāria f
- Latvian: lopi m pl, mājlopi m pl
- Low German: veehtüch
- Macedonian: добиток m (dobitok), стока f (stoka)
- Malay: ternakan (ms), haiwan ternakan
- Malayalam: കന്നുകാലി (ml) (kannukāli)
- Manx: sthock m
- Maori: kararehe (used in the plural)
- Middle English: bestaile
- Navajo: naaldlooshii, biłį́į́ʼ, ałį́į́ʼ
- Norwegian: husdyr (no) n, fe (no) n
- Old English: feoh n
- Old Saxon: fehu
- Polish: dobytek (pl) m, inwentarz (pl) m
- Portuguese: gado (pt) m, pecuária (pt)
- Romanian: șeptel (ro) n, vite (cirezi sau turme)
- Russian: поголо́вье (ru) n (pogolóvʹje), поголо́вье скота́ n (pogolóvʹje skotá), скоти́на (ru) f (skotína), скот (ru) m (skot)
- Slovak: dobytok (sk) m
- Slovene: živina (sl) f
- Spanish: ganado (es) m
- Swedish: boskap (sv) c
- Tagalog: palahayupan
- Turkish: enam (tr), mal (tr), çiftlik hayvanları (tr), besi hayvanları
- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎅𐎎𐎚 (bhmt)
- Ukrainian: худо́ба (uk) f (xudóba), скоти́на f (skotýna)
- Vietnamese: thú nuôi (獸𩟼), gia súc (vi) (家畜)
- Walloon: bisteu (wa) m
- Welsh: da byw m
- Yiddish: פֿיך n (fikh)
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