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English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
Noun
moo (plural moos)
- (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
- (UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.
You silly moo! What did you do that for?
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'
Derived terms
Translations
characteristic sound made by a cow or bull
Verb
moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)
- (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
Synonyms
Translations
Interjection
moo
- The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
Translations
sound made by a cow or bull
See also
Anagrams
Arabela
Noun
moo
- river
Galician
Verb
moo
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer
Japanese
Romanization
moo
- Rōmaji transcription of もお
Lashi
Pronunciation
Postposition
moo
- in, on, at
2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 1:1 ”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ , page 2:Xang꞉ shiˮ moo Mangsoo gi mougkhung꞉ yoʼ myidjang ri phainˮ so꞉ toˮ.- First, God created heaven and earth.
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 23
- Hideo Sawada (2024) “Differences between ‘Lacid’ and ‘Leqi’”, in Grammatical Phenomena of Sino-Tibetan Languages, volume 6, pages 33-54
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.
Adjective
moo
- comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)
See also
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.
Pronunciation
Noun
moo
- synonym of mooma
2008 , Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:2, page 5:Judá mɨcorɨ amatɨaɨ mɨcorɨaɨ moo jɨaɨ Jacob mɨcorɨ.- The late Juda's late brothers' father was also the late Jacob.
- vocative of mooma
Declension
Root
moo
- father
Derived terms
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20) (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
moo
- first-person singular present indicative of moer
Sotho
Adverb
moo
- there; distal demonstrative adverb.
Swahili
Noun
moo class ? (plural )
- leg; foot
- Synonym: mguu
Ulch
Noun
moo
- tree, wood
References
- Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.