zebu

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See also: Zebu, zébu, and zebù

English

Etymology

From French zébu, from Tibetan (perhaps མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male bull-yak hybrid”), whence also zobo).

Pronunciation

Noun

zebu (plural zebus)

  1. A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).

Synonyms

A zebu (kind of bovine).

Translations

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Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

zebu m anim

  1. zebu (type of ox)

Declension

Also indeclinable.

Declension of zebu (masculine animate in -u)
singular plural
nominative zebu zebuové
genitive zebua zebuů
dative zebuovi zebuům
accusative zebua zebuy
vocative zebu zebuové
locative zebuovi zebuech
instrumental zebuem zebuy

Indonesian

Noun

zebu (first-person possessive zebuku, second-person possessive zebumu, third-person possessive zebunya)

  1. zebu

Japanese

Romanization

zebu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゼブ

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

zebu m (definite singular zebuen, indefinite plural zebuer, definite plural zebuene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by sebu

Polish

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Pronunciation

Noun

zebu n

  1. zebu

Further reading

  • zebu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu,[1][2] from Tibetan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ze‧bu

Noun

zebu m (plural zebus)

  1. (zoology) zebu (domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa)

References

  1. ^ “zebu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “zebu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu.

Noun

zebu m (uncountable)

  1. zebu

Declension

declension of zebu (singular only)
singular
m gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) zebu zebul
genitive/dative (unui) zebu zebului
vocative zebule

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

zebu (Cyrillic spelling зебу)

  1. accusative singular of zeba
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