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English A water buffalo (1)
Pronunciation
Noun water buffalo plural water buffalos or water buffaloes or water buffalo
A large ungulate , widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: Bubalus bubalis
( US , colloquial ) water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.
Coordinate terms
Translations large ungulate
Acehnese: keubeuë
Ahom: 𑜁𑜩 ( khay )
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: جموسة f ( gamūsa )
Assamese: ম’হ ( möh )
Atayal: rapa'
Azerbaijani: asiya camışı
Banjarese: hadangan (bjn)
Basay: kalabau
Bau Bidayuh: kirobow
Bengali: মোষ (bn) ( mōś )
Bikol Central: damulag (bcl) , karabaw (bcl)
Bulgarian: индийски бивол m ( indijski bivol )
Bunun: hanvangpushiv
Burmese: ကျွဲ (my) ( kywai: )
Cebuano: kabaw
Central Dusun: kalabau
Central Melanau: kerebau
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎠᎹ ᏯᎾᏌ ( ama yanasa )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 水牛 (zh) ( shuǐniú )
Danish: vandbøffel c
Dutch: waterbuffel (nl) m karbouw (nl) m
Finnish: vesipuhveli (fi)
French: buffle d’Asie (fr) , buffle des marais (fr) , buffle des rivières (fr)
German: Wasserbüffel (de) m
Greek: νεροβούβαλος m ( nerovoúvalos )
Hawaiian: pipi Pākē
Hebrew: תאו (he) m ( te’ó ) , ג׳מוס (he) m ( jamús )
Hindi: भैंस (hi) f ( bha͠is )
Hungarian: vízibivaly (hu)
Indonesian: kerbau (id)
Irish: buabhall uisce m
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Ivatan: pagad
Japanese: 水牛 (ja) ( すいぎゅう, suigyū ) , スイギュウ (ja) ( suigyū ) , 呉牛 (ja) ( ごぎゅう, gogyū )
Javanese: kebo (jv)
Kanakanabu: karavung takisiikisi
Kapampangan: damulag
Kavalan: qabaw
Kazakh: енеке ( eneke )
Khamti: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: ក្របី (km) ( krɑbəy )
Khün: ᨣ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨿ
Kimaragang: karabau
Korean: 물소 ( mulso )
Laboya: kari
Lao: ຄວາຍ (lo) ( khuāi )
Latvian: ūdens bifeļu
Lautu Chin: anaa
Lithuanian: vandeninis buivolas m
Lü: ᦩᦻ ( xwaay )
Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
Malay: kerbau benuang
Malayalam: പോത്ത് (ml) m ( pōttŭ ) , എരുമ (ml) f ( eruma )
Minangkabau: kabau (min)
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Northern Thai: ᨤ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨿ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vannbøffel (no) m vassbøffel m
Nynorsk: vassbøffel m
Okinawan: 水牛 ( みじうし, mijiushi )
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: گاومیش (fa) ( gâvmiš )
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Polish: bawół domowy m
Portuguese: búfalo-asiático (pt)
Puyuma: siwgu
Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: bivol de apă m
Russian: азиа́тский бу́йвол m ( aziátskij bújvol ) , инди́йский бу́йвол m ( indíjskij bújvol ) , бу́йвол (ru) m ( bújvol )
Saaroa: kalavungupara'avua
Saek: ว๊าย
Saisiyat: yabaka'
Scottish Gaelic: buabhall uisge m
Serbo-Croatian: vodeni bivol m
Shan: ၵႂၢႆး (shn) ( kwáai )
Slovak: vodný byvol m byvol vodný m
Spanish: búbalo m búfalo de agua m
Sundanese: ᮙᮥᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮀ ( munding )
Swahili: nyati (sw) class 9/10 /1/2
Swedish: vattenbuffel (sv)
Sylheti: ꠜꠂꠍ ( bóisó )
Tagal Murut: karabau
Tagalog: kalabaw (tl)
Tai Dam: ꪁꪫꪱꪥ
Tai Nüa: ᥑᥣᥭᥰ ( xäay )
Tajik: говмеш (tg) ( govmeš )
Tamil: எருமை (ta) ( erumai )
Telugu: గేదె (te) ( gēde )
Thai: ควาย (th) ( kwaai )
Tibetan: མ་ཧེ ( ma he )
Turkish: su sığırı (tr) , manda (tr) , camız (tr) , kömüş (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: trâu (vi)
Welsh: byfflo dŵr m
West Coast Bajau: kerabou
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Zhuang: vaiz
Further reading 
water buffalo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 