bison

See also: Bison

English

American bison (Bison bison)

European bison (Bison bonasus)

Etymology

From Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”). The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯sən/, (US also) /ˈbaɪ̯zən/

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• Rhymes: -aɪsən, -aɪzən

Noun

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons or (rare) bisontes)

1. A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

Coordinate terms

• bovid
• bovine
• buffalo
• cattle
• cow
• wisent

 

Derived terms

• American bison
• bison grass
• European bison
• Higgs bison
• Indian bison
• North American bison
• plains bison
• steppe bison
• wood bison

 

Translations

European bison, Bison bonasus

• Albanian: bizon (sq)
• Arabic: بِيسُون m (bīsūn)
• Assamese: বাইচন (baison)
• Asturian: bisonte (ast), bisonte européu (ast)
• Belarusian: бізо́н m (bizón), зубр m (zubr), зу́бар m (zúbar)
• Bulgarian: зу́бър (bg) m (zúbǎr), бизо́н m (bizón)
• Catalan: bisó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野牛 (zh) (yěniú)

• Czech: zubr (cs) m, bizon evropský m
• Dutch: Europese bizon m, wisent (nl) m
• Esperanto: bizono
• Faroese: visundur m, bisonur m
• Finnish: visentti (fi), euroopanbiisoni
• French: bison (fr), bison d’Europe (fr) m
• German: Wisent (de) m
• Greek: βίσονας (el) m (vísonas)

  Ancient: βόνασος m (bónasos), βόλινθος m (bólinthos)

• Hungarian: bölény (hu)
• Icelandic: vísundur m
• Indonesian: bison (id)
• Irish: bíosún m
• Italian: bisonte (it) m
• Japanese: 野牛 (ja) (やぎゅう, yagyū), バイソン (ja) (baison)
• Korean: 바이슨 (baiseun), 들소 (deulso)
• Latgalian: mežavierss
• Latin: bison m
• Latvian: sumbrs m
• Lithuanian: stumbras (lt) m
• Macedonian: бизо́н m (bizón)
• Malay: bison
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: europeisk bison m

• Old English: ūr (ang) m
• Old Norse: úrr m, vísundr m
• Ossetian: домбай (dombaj)
• Ottoman Turkish: یبان اوكوزی m (yabān öküzü), یبان صیغری f (yabān sığırı)
• Pashto: بيژکۍ f or f pl (bižakə́i)
• Persian: بایسن (bâyson)
• Polish: żubr (pl) m
• Portuguese: auroque (pt) m, bisão (pt) m, bisão-europeu (pt) m, bisonte (pt) m
• Romanian: zimbru (ro) m, bizon (ro) m
• Russian: зубр (ru) m (zubr), бизо́н (ru) m (bizón)
• Scottish Gaelic: bìoson m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бизон m, зубар m

  Roman: bizon (sh) m, zubar (sh) m

• Slovak: zubor (sk) m, bizón m
• Slovene: bizon (sl) m, zober m
• Spanish: bisonte europeo m
• Swahili: baisani class 9/10
• Swedish: visent (sv) c, europeisk bison (sv) c
• Ukrainian: зубр m (zubr), бізо́н (uk) m (bizón)
• Vietnamese: bò rừng bizon, bò rừng bison
• Welsh: bual (cy) m, bual Ewropeaidd m

American bison, Bison bison

• Albanian: bizon (sq)
• Armenian: բիզոն (hy) (bizon)
• Asturian: bisonte (ast), bisonte americanu (ast)
• Blackfoot: iiníí
• Bulgarian: бизон m (bizon)
• Cherokee: ᏴᏑ (yvsu), ᏯᎾᏎ (yanase)
• Comanche: tasiwóo
• Cree: ᐸᔉᐙᐎᒧᐢᑐᐢ (paskwaawimostos)
• Czech: bizon (cs) m, bizon americký m
• Danish: bisonokse c
• Dutch: Amerikaanse bizon m
• Esperanto: bizono
• Finnish: biisoni (fi), amerikanbiisoni
• French: bison (fr) m, bison d’Amérique du Nord (fr) m
• German: Bison (de) m, Amerikanischer Bison m
• Greek: βίσονας (el) m (vísonas)
• Gwich'in: dachan tat gwa’aak’į̀į
• Hungarian: amerikai bölény
• Indonesian: bison (id)
• Irish: bíosún Meiriceánach m
• Japanese: 野牛 (ja) (やぎゅう, yagyū), アメリカ野牛 (アメリカやぎゅう, Amerika yagyū)
• Lakota: pté, tȟatȟáŋka
• Navajo: ayání
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: bisonokse m

• O'odham: pisin
• Ojibwe: ᒪᔥᑯᑌᐱᔑᑭ (mashkodebizhiki)
• Omaha-Ponca: tenúga
• Osage: 𐓲𐓟 (tse)
• Pawnee: kíwiikuʾ
• Polish: bizon (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisão (pt) m, bisão-americano (pt) m, bisonte (pt) m
• Quapaw: tóka, tóxe, tte
• Romanian: bizon (ro) m
• Russian: бизо́н (ru) m (bizón)
• Scottish Gaelic: buabhall m, bìoson Ameireaganach m
• Shoshone: bozheena
• Spanish: bisonte americano m
• Swahili: baisani wa Marekani class 9/10
• Swedish: bisonoxe (sv) c
• Ukrainian: бізо́н (uk) m (bizón), америка́нський бізо́н m (amerykánsʹkyj bizón), америка́нський зубр m (amerykánsʹkyj zubr)
• Vietnamese: bò rừng
• Welsh: bual (cy) m, bual Americanaidd m
• Wichita: néérhir'a

Further reading

• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Ibson, binos, bions

French

bison

Etymology

1307, from Latin bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.zɔ̃/

• un bison

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Noun

bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

Derived terms

• bison d’Amérique
• bison d’Europe

 

Descendants

• → Russian: бизо́н (bizón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “bison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English bison, from Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbisɔn]
• Hyphenation: bi‧son

Noun

bison (first-person possessive bisonku, second-person possessive bisonmu, third-person possessive bisonnya)

1. bison: a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

Further reading

• “bison” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

1st century; together with Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn) (2nd century; cf. modern Greek βίσονας (vísonas)) borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.soːn/, [ˈbɪs̠oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.son/, [ˈbiːs̬on]

Noun

bisōn m (genitive bisōntis); third declension

1. bison (Bison bonasus)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bisōn	bisōntēs
Genitive	bisōntis	bisōntum
Dative	bisōntī	bisōntibus
Accusative	bisōntem	bisōntēs
Ablative	bisōnte	bisōntibus
Vocative	bisōn	bisōntēs

Further reading

• “bison”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norman

Etymology

From Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

Noun

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison