zebu

See also: Zebu, zébu, and zebù

English

Etymology

From French zébu, from Tibetan (perhaps མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male bull-yak hybrid”), whence also zobo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈziː.b(j)uː/, /ˈzɛ.b(j)uː/, /ˈzeɪ.b(j)uː/

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• Rhymes: -iːbuː

Noun

zebu (plural zebus)

1. A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos primigenius indicus).

Synonyms

• Indian ox

A zebu (kind of bovine).

Translations

domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘤牛 (zh) (liúniú), 犛牛／牦牛 (zh) (máoniú)

• Czech: zebu (cs)
• Dutch: zeboe (nl) m
• Finnish: seebu (fi)
• French: zébu (fr) m
• Georgian: ზებუ (zebu)
• German: Zebu (de) n, Buckelrind (de) n
• Greek: ζεμπού (zempoú)
• Hindi: ज़ेबू m (zebū), बैल (hi) m (bail)
• Ido: zebuo (io)
• Italian: zebù (it) m
• Japanese: 瘤牛 (kobuushi), 犎牛 (hōgyū), インド牛 (indoushi), ゼブ (zebu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: зе́бу n (zébu)
• Malagasy: jamoka (mg)
• Portuguese: zebu (pt) m
• Russian: зе́бу (ru) m (zébu)
• Spanish: cebú m
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bò u (vi), bò zebu, bò zêbu
• Yoruba: màlúù

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} درباني

Further reading

• zebu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bos indicus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bos taurus indicus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛbu]

Noun

zebu m anim

1. zebu (type of ox)

Declension

Also indeclinable.

Declension of zebu (masculine animate in -u)

	singular	plural
nominative	zebu	zebuové
genitive	zebua	zebuů
dative	zebuovi	zebuům
accusative	zebua	zebuy
vocative	zebu	zebuové
locative	zebuovi	zebuech
instrumental	zebuem	zebuy

Indonesian

Noun

zebu (first-person possessive zebuku, second-person possessive zebumu, third-person possessive zebunya)

1. zebu

Japanese

Romanization

zebu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゼブ

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

zebu m (definite singular zebuen, indefinite plural zebuer, definite plural zebuene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by sebu

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.bu/

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• Rhymes: -ɛbu
• Syllabification: ze‧bu

Noun

zebu n

1. zebu

Further reading

• zebu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu, from Tibetan.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /zeˈbu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /zɨˈbu/ [zɨˈβu]

• Hyphenation: ze‧bu

Noun

zebu m (plural zebus)

1. (zoology) zebu (domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zébu.

Noun

zebu m (uncountable)

1. zebu

Declension

declension of zebu (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) zebu	zebul
genitive/dative	(unui) zebu	zebului
vocative	zebule

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

zebu (Cyrillic spelling зебу)

1. accusative singular of zeba