zébu

See also: zebu, Zebu, and zebù

French

Etymology

Probably from Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male offspring of a female cow and yak bull”), from Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, from མཛོ (mdzo, “cow and yak hybrid”) +‎ པོ (po, “suffix for males”)); or, from a similar Tibeto-Burman source, such as Tibetan ཟེ་བ (ze ba, “zebu or camel's hump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ze.by/

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Noun

zébu m (plural zébus, feminine zébue or zébute)

1. zebu

Descendants

• → English: zebu
• → Portuguese: zebu

Further reading

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