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:

     '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

• moolike

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
• Turkish: mö

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)

• Irish: géim
• Italian: muggire (it)
• 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
• 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
• Icelandic: mu, mö
• Italian: mu

• Japanese: モー (mō)
• Khmer: ម៉ (km) (mɑɑ)
• Korean: 음메 (eumme)
• Lithuanian: mū
• Marathi: हम्मा (hammā)
• Mongolian: хоо (mn) (hoo)
• 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

Anagrams

• OOM, omo-, oom

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Arabela

Noun

moo

1. river

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Japanese

Romanization

moo

1. Rōmaji transcription of もお

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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

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Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *mōhō.

Pronunciation

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

Root

moo

1. father

Derived terms

• mooma

Noun

moo

1. vocative of mooma (“father”)

Noun

moo

1. Synonym of mooma (“father”)

Coordinate terms

• ei

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈmo.u/, [ˈmo.u]

 

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈmo(w).u/, [ˈmo(w).u]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈmo(w).u/, [ˈmo(w).u]
  • IPA^(key): (Southern Portugal) /ˈmo.u/, [ˈmo.u]

• Hyphenation: mo‧o

Verb

moo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of moer

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Sotho

Adverb

moo

1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

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Ulch

Noun

moo

1. tree, wood

References

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