cow/translations

This page contains translations for cow. See the main entry for more information.

English

Noun

Translations

female domesticated ox or other bovine

• Abkhaz: ажә (aẑʷ)
• Acehnese: leumo
• Adyghe: чэмы (čɛmə), (Shapsug) чэм (čɛm)
• Afar: saga
• Afrikaans: koei (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕙 (čur)
• Ahom: 𑜑𑜥 (hū)
• Akan: nantwi
• Akhvakh: жиᵸво (žı̇̃vo)
• Akkadian: 𒀖 (arhu)
• Albanian: lopë (sq) f
• Ambonese Malay: sapi
• Amharic: ላም (lam)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bágashi

• Arabic: بَقَرَة (ar) f (baqara)

  Egyptian Arabic: بقرة f (baʔara)

  Gulf Arabic: بْقَرَة (bgərə)

  Hijazi Arabic: بقرة f (bagara)

  Iraqi Arabic: هايشة f (hāyša)

  Moroccan Arabic: بقرة f (baqra)

• Aragonese: vaca f, baca f
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܸܪܬܵܐ f (tawirta)

  Hebrew: תורתא f (tōrtā, tōrto)

  Syriac: ܬܘܪܬܐ f (tōrtā, tōrto)

• Archi: хьӏон (x̣on)
• Armenian: կով (hy) (kov)
• Aromanian: vacã f
• Assamese: গাইগৰু (gaigoru), গৰু (goru)
• Asturian: vaca (ast) f
• Aymara: waka (ay)
• Azerbaijani: inək (az)
• Baluchi: گوک (gúk, gok)
• Bambara: misi
• Banjarese: sapi
• Bashkir: һыйыр (hıyır)
• Basque: behi (eu) f
• Bats: ჲეთˁ (yetˁ)
• Belarusian: каро́ва (be) f (karóva)
• Bemba: nañ-ñombe
• Bengali: গাই (bn) (gai), গরু (bn) (goru)
• Bhojpuri: गाय (gāy)
• Bikol Central: baka (bcl)
• Breton: buoc'h (br) f
• Bulgarian: кра́ва (bg) f (kráva)
• Burmese: နွားမ (my) (nwa:ma.)
• Buryat: үнеэн (ünjeen)
• Catalan: vaca (ca) f
• Cebuano: baka
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵏⴰⵙⵜ f (tafunast)
• Central Sierra Miwok: lé·čy-
• Chamicuro: waka
• Chamorro: guaka
• Chechen: етт (jett)
• Cherokee: ᏩᎧ (waka), ᏩᎦ (chr) (waga)
• Chichewa: ng'ombe
• Chickasaw: waaka'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 母牛 (mou⁵ ngau⁴), 牛乸 (ngau⁴ naa²)

  Eastern Min: 牛母 (ngù-mō̤)

  Hakka: 牛嫲 (ngiù-mà)

  Hokkien: 牛母 (zh-min-nan) (gû-bó, gû-bú)

  Mandarin: 母牛 (zh) (mǔniú)

  Wu: 雌牛 (¹tshy-gnieu), 牛娘

• Chinook Jargon: musmus
• Chuvash: ӗне (ĕne)
• Cornish: bugh f
• Corsican: vacca (co) f
• Crimean Tatar: sığır, tuvar, sıyır
• Czech: kráva (cs) f
• Dalmatian: baca f, busca f
• Danish: ko (da) c
• Daur: unie
• Dhivehi: ގެރި (geri)
• Dutch: koe (nl) f
• Elfdalian: tjyr f
• Erzya: скал (skal)
• Eshtehardi: گاوَ f (gâva)
• Esperanto: bovino (eo)
• Estonian: lehm (et) f
• Even: хөкэн (hökən)
• Evenki: мачалэ (maçalə)
• Farefare: naafɔ, na-yã'aŋa
• Faroese: kúgv (fo) f
• Finnish: lehmä (fi)
• French: vache (fr) f
• Friulian: vacje f, vačhe f
• Fula: nagge
• Galician: vaca (gl) f
• Georgian: ძროხა (ʒroxa)
• German: Kuh (de) f

  Alemannic German: Chue f

• Gondi: మూర (mūra)
• Greek: αγελάδα (el) f (ageláda)

  Ancient: βοῦς f (boûs)

• Greenlandic: nersussuaq
• Gujarati: ગાય (gu) (gāya)
• Haitian Creole: vach
• Hausa: saniya
• Hawaiian: pipi wahine
• Hebrew: פָּרָה (he) f (pará)
• Hiligaynon: baka
• Hindi: गाय (hi) f (gāy), गो (hi) m (go), गऊ (hi) f (gaū), बकर (hi) m (bakar)
• Hungarian: tehén (hu)
• Icelandic: kýr (is) f, belja (is) f (informal)
• Ido: bovino (io)
• Inari Sami: kussâ
• Indonesian: sapi (id)
• Ingrian: lehmä
• Interlingua: vacca
• Irish: bó (ga) f
• Istro-Romanian: våcĕ f
• Italian: vacca (it) f, mucca (it) f
• Japanese: 雌牛 (ja) (めうし, meushi), 牛 (ja) (うし, ushi)
• Javanese: ꦊꦩ꧀ꦧꦸ (jv) (lembu)
• Jeju: 암쉐 (amswe)
• Kabardian: жэм (kbd) (žɛm)
• Kabyle: tafunast f
• Kalmyk: үкр (ükr)
• Kannada: ಹಸು (kn) (hasu)
• Kanuri: fê
• Karachay-Balkar: ийнек (iynek)
• Karakalpak: sıyır
• Karakhanid: اِنْكَكْ (ingek)
• Karelian: lehmä
• Kashubian: karwa f
• Kazakh: сиыр (siyr)
• Khakas: інек (ìnek)
• Khasi: masi
• Khmer: មេគោ (mee koo)
• Kildin Sami: лӣхемь (līxjem’)
• Komi-Zyrian: мӧс (mös)
• Kongo: ngombe
• Konkani: गाय f or n (gāy)
• Korean: 암소 (ko) (amso)
• Kumyk: сыйыр (sıyır), инек (inek)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مانگا (manga), چێڵ (çêll)

  Northern Kurdish: çêl (ku), çêlek (ku), mange (ku), manga (ku)

• Kyrgyz: уй (ky) (uy)
• Ladin: vacia f
• Ladino: vaka f
• Lao: ງົວ (lo) (ngūa)
• Latgalian: gūvs f
• Latin: vacca (la) f, bōs (la) f
• Latvian: govs (lv) f
• Laz: ფუჯი (puci), puci, ფუჯი (puci)
• Laz: puci
• Limburgish: ków f
• Lingala: ngombe, ngɔ́mbɛ́
• Lithuanian: kárvė (lt)
• Livonian: nī'em
• Livvi: lehmy
• Low German: Koh f, Koo f, Stark f (young)
• Lü: ᦷᦣ (ho), ᦷᦇ (ngo)
• Luo: dhiang'
• Luxembourgish: Kou (lb) f
• Macedonian: крава f (krava)
• Makhuwa: enyompé
• Malagasy: omby (mg)
• Malay: lembu (ms)
• Malayalam: പശു (ml) (paśu)
• Maltese: baqra f
• Manchu: ᡳᡥᠠᠨ (ihan), ᡠᠨᡳᠶᡝᠨ (uniyen)
• Manx: booa m
• Maori: kau (mi)
• Mapudungun: waka
• Maranao: sapi'
• Marathi: गाय (mr) f (gāy)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ушкал (uškal)

  Western Mari: ышкал (yškal)

• Mazanderani: گو (gu)
• Megleno-Romanian: vacă f
• Minangkabau: jawi (min)
• Mòcheno: kua f
• Moksha: тракс (traks)
• Mon: ဂၠဴၝောံ
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үнээ (mn) (ünee)

  Mongolian: ᠦᠨᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ (üniy-e)

• Moore: naafo, nag-yãanga
• Mpade: sha
• Mwani: ng'ombe
• Nahuatl: vaca (nah)
• Nanai: ихан (ihan)
• Nepali: गाई (ne) (gāī)
• Nivkh: эӻа (eġa)
• Nogai: сыйыр (sıyır)
• Norman: vaque f
• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) kü f, Kü c (Sylt)
• Northern Sami: gussa
• Northern Sotho: kgômogadi
• Northern Thai: ᨦᩫ᩠ᩅ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ku (no) f or m

  Nynorsk: ku f

• Nottoway-Meherrin: toskerung
• Nubi: bagara
• Nuosu: ꑍꃀ (nyip mop)
• O'odham: haiwani, haiwañ
• Occitan: vaca (oc) f
• Ojibwe: ikwe-bizhiki
• Okinawan: うし (ushi)
• Old East Slavic: корова f (korova)
• Old English: cū f
• Old Irish: bó f
• Old Norse: kýr f
• Old Prussian: klente f
• Old Turkic: 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (in²gk /⁠ingek⁠/)
• Oromo: sa'a, saawwa
• Ossetian:

  Digor: гъог (ǧog)

  Iron: хъуг (qug)

• Ottoman Turkish: انك (inek)
• Pali: gāvī f
• Pannonian Rusyn: крава f (krava)
• Pashto: غوا (ps) f (ġwā)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مادِه‌گاو (mâde-gâv), گاو (fa) (gâv), گُو (gow) (dialectal), گا (fa) (gâ) (dialectal)

• Plautdietsch: Koo f
• Polabian: korvo f
• Polish: krowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: vaca (pt) f
• Quechua: waka
• Rohingya: gai
• Romagnol: munghèna f
• Romani: gurumni f
• Romanian: vacă (ro) f
• Romansch: vatga, vacha f
• Russian: коро́ва (ru) f (koróva)
• Rwanda-Rundi: inka
• Saho: saga
• Samoan: povi
• Sanskrit: धेनु (sa) (dhenu), गो (sa) (go), अघ्न्या (sa) f (aghnyā)
• Santali: ᱜᱟᱤ (gai)
• Sardinian: bacca f
• Saterland Frisian: Ku f
• Scots: coo, kye
• Scottish Gaelic: bò f, mart m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крȁва f

  Roman: krȁva (sh) f

• Shan: ငူဝ်း (shn) (ngó), ဝူဝ်း (shn) (wó)
• Shona: mhóu
• Shor: нек (nek)
• Sicilian: vacca (scn) f
• Sidamo: sa'a
• Sindhi: گانءِ (gānʾi)
• Sinhalese: දෙන (si) (dena)
• Skolt Sami: kuss
• Slovak: krava (sk) f
• Slovene: krava (sl) f
• Slovincian: krôva f
• Somali: sac (so) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: krowa f

  Upper Sorbian: kruwa f

• Southern Altai: уй (uy), инек (inek), ийнек (iynek), сыйыр (sïyïr)
• Southern Sami: govse
• Spanish: vaca (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: kaw
• Sumerian: 𒀖
• Svan: ფუ̈რ (pür)
• Swahili: ng'ombe (sw)
• Swazi: ín-khomâti
• Swedish: ko (sv) c, kossa (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠉꠞꠥ (goru)
• Tabasaran: хюни (ꭓjuni)
• Tagalog: baka (tl)
• Tajik: гов (tg) (gov), модагов (modagov)
• Tamil: பசு (ta) (pacu)
• Taos: kòsiʼína
• Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵏⴰⵙⵜ f (tafunast), ⵜⴰⵎⵓⴳⴰⵢⵜ f (tamugayt)
• Tatar: сыер (tt) (sıyer)
• Tausug: baka
• Tedim Chin: bawng
• Telugu: ఆవు (te) (āvu), గోవు (te) (gōvu)
• Thai: วัว (th) (wuua), โค (th) (koo)
• Tibetan: བ་ཕྱུགས (ba phyugs)
• Tigrinya: ላም (lam)
• Tocharian A: ko
• Tocharian B: keu
• Tok Pisin: bulmakau meri
• Tongan: pulu fefine
• Tumbuka: ng'ombe
• Turkish: inek (tr), sığır (tr)
• Turkmen: sygyr
• Udi: чур (čur)
• Udmurt: скал (skal)
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗𐎃 (ʿrḫ)
• Ukrainian: коро́ва (uk) f (koróva)
• Urdu: گای f (gāī), گو f (go), گَئُو f (gaū), بَقَر m (baqar)
• Uyghur: ئىنەك (ug) (inek), كالا (ug) (kala), سېغىن كالا (sëghin kala), سىيىر (siyir)
• Uzbek: sigir (uz)
• Venetan: vaca (vec) f
• Veps: lehm
• Vietnamese: bò cái
• Volapük: kun (vo), jibub (vo)
• Voro: lehm
• Votic: lehme
• Walloon: vatche (wa) f
• Welsh: buwch (cy) f
• West Frisian: ko c
• White Hmong: nyuj
• Wolof: nag wi (wo), nag (wo)
• Xhosa: inkomo class 9/10
• Yagnobi: ғов (ġov)
• Yakut: ынах (ınaq)
• Yiddish: קו f (ku)
• Yoruba: abo màluu
• Yucatec Maya: wakax
• Zazaki: monga (diq), manga (diq), gew, gaun f
• Zhuang: vaizmeh, cwzvaiz
• Zou: bong
• Zulu: inkomazi class 9/10, imazi class 9/10

any domestic bovine regardless of sex or age

• Aghwan: 𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕙 (čur)
• Ainu: ペコ (peko)
• Arabic: بَقَرَة (ar) sg (baqara), بَقَر (ar) (baqar) (collective), اَبْقَار pl (abqār)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܪܵܐ m (tawra)

• Balinese: ᬲᬫ᭄ᬧᬶ (sampi)
• Burmese: နွား (my) (nwa:)
• Catalan: vaca (ca) f, toro (ca) m, taur (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏩᎦ (chr) (waga)
• Chichewa: ng'ombe
• Chickasaw: waaka'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牛 (ngau⁴)

  Eastern Min: 牛 (ngù)

  Hakka: 牛 (ngiù)

  Hokkien: 牛 (zh-min-nan) (gû)

  Mandarin: 牛 (zh) (niú)

  Wu: 牛 (³nieu)

• Czech: tur (cs) f, skot (cs) m
• Danish: ko (da) c
• Dutch: rund (nl) n
• Eastern Cham: ꨤꨟꨯꨱꨥ
• Esperanto: bovo (eo)
• Estonian: vissi (informal; call-name; endearing)
• Farefare: naafɔ
• Finnish: nauta (fi)
• French: bovin (fr) m, vache (fr) f
• Fula: nagge
• German: Rind (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: βοῦς m or f (boûs)

• Haitian Creole: bèf
• Hawaiian: pipi
• Hebrew: פרה (he) f (pará)
• Hindi: गोरू (hi) m pl (gorū), गाय (hi) f (gāy), गो (hi) m (go), गऊ (hi) f (gaū), बकर (hi) m (bakar)
• Hopi: waakasi
• Hungarian: szarvasmarha (hu), marha (hu)
• Icelandic: nautgripur m, kýr (is) f (in plural only)
• Ido: bovo (io)
• Indonesian: lembu (id)
• Irish: bó (ga) f
• Italian: bovino (it) m
• Japanese: 牛 (ja) (うし, ushi)
• Jeju: 쉐 (swe)
• Kalmyk: үкр (ükr)
• Kannada: ದನ (kn) (dana), ಹಸು (kn) (hasu)
• Khasi: masi
• Khmer: គោ (km) (koo)
• Korean: 소 (ko) (so)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مانگا (manga)

• Latin: bōs (la) m or f
• Low German: Rind n
• Luxembourgish: Kou (lb) f
• Macedonian: крава f (krava)
• Malay: lembu (ms)
• Manchu: ᡳᡥᠠᠨ (ihan)
• Maricopa: 'iikway
• Mohawk: tiohnhónskwaron
• Mongolian: үхэр (mn) (üxer)
• Moore: naafo
• Mwani: ng'ombe
• Navajo: béégashii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ku (no) f or m

  Nynorsk: ku f

• Ojibwe: bizhiki
• Okinawan: うし (ushi)
• Old English: cū f
• Persian: گاو (fa) (gâv)
• Plautdietsch: Rint n
• Portuguese: bovino (pt) m, bovídeo (pt) m
• Romani: guruv m
• Russian: коро́ва (ru) f (koróva), бык (ru) m (byk) (bull)
• Scottish Gaelic: mart m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крȁва f

  Roman: krȁva (sh) f

• Shor: нек (nek)
• Slovene: krava (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gowjedo n

  Upper Sorbian: howjado n

• Spanish: bovino (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒄞 (gu₄, gud /⁠gu⁠/)
• Swahili: ng'ombe (sw)
• Swedish: nötkreatur (sv) n
• Tamil: மாடு (ta) (māṭu)
• Tibetan: བ་ཕྱུགས (ba phyugs)
• Tocharian B: okso
• Tok Pisin: bulmakau
• Tswana: ^{(please verify)} kgomo class 9/10
• Turkish: sığır (tr)
• Udi: чур (čur)
• Vietnamese: bò (vi)
• Volapük: (male or female) bub (vo)
• Western Cham: لمۉ lemou, مۉ mou
• White Hmong: nyuj
• Wolof: nag (wo)
• Wutunhua: nek
• Yoruba: mààlúù, màlúù, elilá
• Zazaki: naxır (diq) c
• Zhuang: cwz, moz

female of various species of mammal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 母獸 / 母兽 (zh) (mǔshòu)

• Czech: kráva (cs) f
• Danish: ko (da) c (of any bovine and manatees), hun (da) c (of whales, seals, elephants, etc.)
• Dutch: koe (nl) f
• Esperanto: ino (eo)
• Estonian: lehm (et) f
• Faroese: kúgv (fo) f
• Finnish: lehmä (fi)
• French: vache (fr) f (of any bovine), femelle (fr) f (of the whale, seal, manatee, elephant, etc.)
• German: Kuh (de) f
• Hungarian: tehén (hu)
• Icelandic: kýr (is) f (of bovines, manatees, whales; also of reindeer and elk/moose)
• Irish: bó (ga) f
• Italian: vacca (it) f, (of any bovine) mucca (it) f, (of the seal, whale, manatee, etc.) femmina (it) f, (of the elephant) elefantessa (it) f
• Japanese: 雌 (ja) (めす, mesu)
• Macedonian: женка f (ženka)
• Manchu: ᡝᠮᡳᠯᡝ (emile)
• Ojibwe: noozhez (of moose, mare, deer, elk, carabou, hind), noozhe-bizhiki (of buffalo, bison), noozhe-mooz (of moose)
• Portuguese: use the animal’s name + -fêmea (pt)
• Romanian: femelă (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: bò f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крȁва f

  Roman: krȁva (sh) f

• Slovene: krava (sl) f
• Swedish: ko (sv) c (of bovines and elk/moose)
• Tok Pisin: meri
• Vietnamese: cái (vi)
• Zazaki: manker m

derogatory: despicable woman

• Armenian: կով (hy) (kov)
• Catalan: vaca (ca) f, bruixa (ca) f, foca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: kráva (cs) f
• Danish: ko (da) c
• Dutch: domme koe f
• Estonian: lehm (et) f
• Finnish: lehmä (fi)
• French: garce (fr) f, chipie (fr) f
• German: Kuh (de) f
• Greek: αγελάδα (el) f (ageláda)
• Hebrew: פרה (he) f (pará)
• Hungarian: spiné (hu) (literally “broad”), tyúk (hu) (literally “hen”)
• Icelandic: belja (is) f
• Italian: stronza (it) f, bastarda (it) f, vacca (it) f
• Latvian: govs (lv) f
• Luxembourgish: Kouh f
• Macedonian: крава f (krava)
• Ojibwe: majiikwe
• Polish: krowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: vaca (pt) f, bruxa (pt) f
• Romanian: vacă (ro) f
• Russian: коро́ва (ru) f (koróva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крȁва f

  Roman: krȁva (sh) f

• Slovene: krava (sl) f
• Spanish: bruja (es) f
• Swahili: ng'ombe (sw)
• Swedish: kossa (sv) c
• Turkish: kancık (tr)
• West Frisian: ko c
• Zazaki: manker m

informal: anything annoyingly difficult

• Catalan: marró (ca) m, pedra (ca) f
• Danish: lort (da) c, bæ c, bræk (da) c
• Hungarian: nehéz dolog
• Ojibwe: aanimakamigiziwin

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} koei (af)
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} lopë (sq) f, ^{(please verify)} kau i egër
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} behi (eu)
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} жывела f (žyvjela)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} buoc’h (br) f, ^{(please verify)} buoc’hed (br) pl, ^{(please verify)} saout (br) pl
• Choctaw: ^{(please verify)} wak
• Friulian: ^{(please verify)} vacje
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} vaca (gl) f
• Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: ^{(please verify)} 'qwaaka
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} lembu (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vacca
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 소 (ko) (so), ^{(please verify)} 암소 (ko) (amso)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} çêl (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} çêlek (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} mange (ku) f, ^{(please verify)} mang (ku) f

• Ladin: ^{(please verify)} vacia
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} vacca (la) f, ^{(please verify)} bos (la) m or f
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} karvė (lt) f (1, 3)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} крава f (krava)
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} പശു (ml) (paśu)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} baqra f
• Maléku Jaíka: ^{(please verify)} teptep
• Mohawk: ^{(please verify)} tyonnhonhskwaron
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} vaca (oc) f
• Old Norse: ^{(please verify)} ko, ^{(please verify)} ku
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} bulu, ^{(please verify)} óinu, ^{(please verify)} bàcchinu, ^{(please verify)} bóinu, ^{(please verify)} bacca, ^{(please verify)} vacca
• Seri: ^{(please verify)} ziix cooha, ^{(please verify)} heen, ^{(please verify)} hant csii (archaic)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} sığır (tr), ^{(please verify)} inek (tr)
• Walloon: ^{(please verify)} vatche (wa)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} buwch (cy) f
• Yucatec Maya: ^{(please verify)} wakaš