moo

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See also: Moo, MOO, moʻo, Moʻo, móo, móó, and möö

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

the sound of a cow's moo

Noun

moo (plural moos)

  1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
  2. (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.'

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Verb

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

  1. (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

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Interjection

moo

  1. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
    The cow says moo.

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Anagrams

Arabela

Noun

moo

  1. river

Galician

Verb

moo

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer

Japanese

Romanization

moo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of もお

Lashi

Pronunciation

Postposition

moo

  1. 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

  1. comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)

See also

Murui Huitoto

moo
Root Classifier
moo- —

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.

Pronunciation

Noun

moo

  1. 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.
  2. vocative of mooma

Declension

Declension of moo
singular plural kinship plural
absolutive moo — mootɨaɨ
nominative moodɨ — mootɨaɨdɨ
accusative moona — mootɨaɨna
dative/locative moomo — mootɨaɨmo
ablative moomona — mootɨaɨmona
instrumental moodo — mootɨaɨdo
causal moori — mootɨaɨri
privative moonino — mootɨaɨnino

Root

moo

  1. 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

 
 

  • Hyphenation: mo‧o

Verb

moo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of moer

Sotho

Adverb

moo

  1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

Swahili

Noun

moo class ? (plural )

  1. leg; foot
    Synonym: mguu

Ulch

Noun

moo

  1. tree, wood

References

  • Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.
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