ox

English

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Etymology

Old English oxa, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (compare Welsh ych 'ox', Tocharian A/B ops/okso 'draft-ox', Avestan uxšan 'bull', Sanskrit ukṣán).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒks

Noun

ox (plural oxen)

1. Any animal of the tribe Bovini used as a beast of burden. Typically refers to the adult castrated male of the domestic species (Bos taurus).

Derived terms

Terms derived from "ox"

grunting ox have the black ox tread on one's foot Indian ox Japanese ox Javan ox

musk ox ox bile ox bow ox gall ox pith

ox is in the ditch ox ray strong as an ox‎

Translations

bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially a castrated male cattle

• Afrikaans: os (af), bees (af)
• Albanian: ka (sq)
• Amharic: በሬ (am) (bäre)
• Arabic: ثُور (ar) (thuur) m
• Armenian: եզ (hy) (ez)

  Old Armenian: եզն (hy) (ezn)

• Aromanian: bou (rup) m
• Asturian: güe (ast) m
• Basque: idi (eu) m
• Belarusian: вол (be) (vol) m, бык (be) (byk) m (bull)
• Bulgarian: вол (bg) (vol) m
• Catalan: bou (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎦᏓᎵ (chr) (gadali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犉 (cmn) (rún), 牛 (cmn) (niú) (bull or cow)

• Czech: vůl (cs) m
• Dalmatian: bu m
• Dutch: os (nl) m
• Eshtehardi: گو (geow) m
• Esperanto: eksvirbovo (eo), okso (eo)
• Estonian: härg (et)
• Ewe: nyi
• Faroese: oksi (fo) m
• Finnish: härkä (fi)
• French: bœuf (fr) m
• Galician: boi (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ochse (de) m

  Old High German: ohso m

• Hebrew: שׁוֹר (he) (šor) m
• Hungarian: ökör (hu)
• Indonesian: lembu (id)
• Irish: damh (ga) m
• Italian: bue (it) m, bove (it)
• Japanese: 去勢雄牛 (ja) (きょせいおうし, kyosei ōshi)
• Karachay-Balkar: ёгюз (ögüz)
• Kazakh: бұқа, өгіз
• Khmer: គោឈ្មោល (go chmol)
• Korean: 악대소 (akdae-so), 불깐소 (bulkkan-so)
• Latgalian: vierss m
• Latin: bōs (la) m

• Latvian: vērsis (lv)
• Lithuanian: jautis (lt) m
• Livonian: ǟrga
• Luxembourgish: Ochs (lb) m
• Macedonian: вол (mk) (vol) m
• Occitan: buòu (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: волъ (volŭ) m
• Old Norse: oxi m, uxi m
• Persian: گاو (fa) (gâv), ورزا (fa) (varzâ)
• Polish: wół (pl) m
• Portuguese: boi (pt) m
• Romanian: bou (ro) m
• Romansch: bov (rm)
• Russian: вол (ru) (vol) m, бык (ru) (byk) m (bull)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: boi m

  Nugorese: boe m

• Scottish Gaelic: damh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во (sh) m, вол (sh) m, бик (sh) m (bull)

  Roman: vo (sh) m, vol (sh) m, bik (sh) m (bull)

• Sichuan Yi: ꇌ (le)
• Slovak: vôl (sk) m
• Slovene: vol (sl) m
• Spanish: buey (es) m, toro (es) m, novillo (es) m
• Swahili: ngʼombe
• Swedish: oxe (sv) c
• Tamil: காளை
• Taos: mùoya’ána, tùlu’úna
• Telugu: ఎద్దు (eddu)
• Tibetan: གླང་ (lã)
• Tok Pisin: bulmakau (tpi)
• Turkish: öküz (tr)
• Ukrainian: віл (uk) (vil) m, бик (uk) (byk) m (bull)
• Uzbek: bizon (uz), buyvol (uz)
• Vietnamese: bò (vi)
• Volapük: hobub (vo)
• Võro: härg
• Welsh: ych (cy) m
• Yiddish: אָקס (yi) (oks) m

Descendants

• Abenaki: aksen (derived from oxen)
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: akson (derived from oxen)

• Unami: aksën (derived from oxen)

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Azeri

Etymology

From Old Turkic ok, from Proto-Turkic.

Noun

Other scripts
Cyrillic	ох‍
Roman	ox‍
Perso-Arabic	‍اوْخ‍

ox definite accusative oxu plural oxlar

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Declension

declension of ox

	singular	plural
absolute	ox	oxlar
definite accusative	oxu	oxları
dative	oxa	oxlara
locative	oxda	oxlarda
ablative	oxdan	oxlardan
definite genitive	oxun	oxların