moo

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

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Examples
the sound of a cow's "moo" (file)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mu/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: mu

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.'

Derived terms

• moo-cow
• moo juice
• moolike
• moo-moo

 

Translations

characteristic sound made by a cow or bull

• Arabic: جِوَار m (jiwār)
• Aromanian: mudzit n
• Bulgarian: мучене (bg) n (mučene)
• Catalan: mugit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哞 (zh) (mōu)

• Czech: bučení n
• Danish: muh (da)
• Dutch: boe (nl)
• Finnish: ammunta (fi)
• French: meuglement (fr) m, beuglement (fr) m
• Galician: bruio m, brúo m
• German: Muhen n
• Greek: μου (el) n (mou), μουκανητό n (moukanitó)
• Icelandic: baul n
• Ido: bramo (io)
• Irish: géim f
• Italian: muggito (it) m
• Latin: mugitus
• Lithuanian: mūkimas m
• Malay: tenguh
• Navajo: muu
• Norwegian: raut n
• Old English: ġehlōw n
• Polish: muczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: mugido (pt)
• Romanian: muget (ro) n
• Russian: мыча́ние (ru) n (myčánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: mò
• Serbo-Croatian: мукање n, mukanje n
• Spanish: mugido (es), mu (es) m
• Swedish: mu (sv) n
• Tagalog: unga
• Turkish: mö

foolish woman

• Finnish: lehmä (fi)

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.

Synonyms

• low, boo (rare)

Translations

to make a lowing sound

• Aromanian: mudzescu
• Azerbaijani: movuldamaq, böyürmək
• Belarusian: му́каць impf (múkacʹ)
• Bulgarian: муча (muča)
• Catalan: mugir (ca)
• Czech: bučet (cs)
• Danish: brøle
• Dutch: loeien (nl)
• Esperanto: muĝi (eo)
• Faroese: belja
• Finnish: ammua (fi)
• French: meugler (fr), beugler (fr), mugir (fr)
• Galician: bruar (gl), muar (gl)
• German: muhen (de)
• Greek: μουγκανίζω (el) (mougkanízo)

  Ancient: μυκάομαι (mukáomai), μέμυκα (mémuka)

• Hungarian: múzik
• Icelandic: baula
• Ido: bramar (io)
• Ingrian: myykkiä, ammua
• Irish: géim
• Italian: muggire (it)
• Kyrgyz: мөөрөө (mööröö)
• Latin: mūgiō
• Latvian: maut
• Lithuanian: mūkti f, mykti
• Marathi: हंबरण (hambraṇ)
• Norwegian: raute (no)
• Old English: hlōwan
• Polish: muczeć (pl)
• Portuguese: mugir (pt)
• Romanian: mugi (ro)
• Russian: мыча́ть (ru) (myčátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: мукати, mukati (sh)
• Slovak: mučať, bučeť
• Spanish: mugir (es)
• Swedish: råma (sv)
• Tagalog: umunga
• Turkish: mölemek
• Ukrainian: му́кати impf (múkaty)
• Yiddish: מוקען (muken)

Interjection

moo

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

Translations

sound made by a cow or bull

• Arabic: مُو (mū)
• Asturian: mu (ast)
• Catalan: mmm (ca), mu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哞 (zh) (mōu), 哞哞叫 (mōumōu jiào)

• Czech: bú (cs)
• Danish: muh (da)
• Dutch: boe (nl), moe (nl)
• Esperanto: mu (eo)
• Faroese: mø
• Finnish: muu (fi), ammuu (fi)
• French: meuh (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: muh (de)
• Greek: μου (el) (mou) (usually with a prolonged ου)
• Hebrew: מו (he) m
• Hungarian: mú (hu)
• Icelandic: mu, mö
• Ingrian: muu
• Italian: mu
• Japanese: モー (mō)
• Khmer: ម៉ (km) (mɑɑ)
• Korean: 음메 (eumme)
• Lithuanian: mū
• Marathi: हम्मा (hammā)
• Mongolian: хоо (mn) (xoo)
• Norwegian: mø (no)
• Persian: ما (fa) (mâ)
• Polish: mu (pl)
• Portuguese: mu (pt)
• Romanian: mu (ro)
• Russian: му (ru) (mu), му-у-у (mu-u-u)
• Serbo-Croatian: му, mu (sh)
• Spanish: mu (es)
• Swedish: mu (sv)
• Thai: มอ (th) (mɔɔ)
• Turkish: mö

See also

• moo goo gai pan
• moo shu

 

Anagrams

• OOM, omo-, oom

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

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

• smoo

Murui Huitoto

moo
Root	Classifier
moo-	—

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː]
• Hyphenation: moo

Noun

moo

1. Synonym of mooma
   • 2008 [1978], 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

• mooma

 

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (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.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.o/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo(w).u/

• Hyphenation: mo‧o

Verb

moo

1. first-person singular present indicative of moer

Sotho

Adverb

moo

1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

Ulch

Noun

moo

1. tree, wood

References

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