water buffalo

English

A water buffalo (1)

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑtɚˌbʌfəloʊ/, [ˈwɑɾɚˌbʌfəloʊ]

Noun

water buffalo (plural water buffalos or water buffaloes or water buffalo)

A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: Bubalus bubalis.
(US, colloquial) A water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.

Coordinate terms

(large ungulate in Bubalus): anoa, carabao

Related terms

(large ungulate): Bubalus arnee (wild species)

Translations

large ungulate

Acehnese: keubeuë
Ahom: 𑜁𑜩 (khay)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: جموسة‎ f (gamūsa)
Assamese: ম’হ (möh)
Azerbaijani: asiya camışı
Banjarese: hadangan (bjn)
Bau Bidayuh: kirobow
Bengali: মোষ (mōś)
Bikol Central: damulag (bcl), karabaw (bcl)
Bulgarian: индийски бивол m (indijski bivol)
Burmese: ကျွဲ (my) (kywai:)
Cebuano: kabaw
Central Dusun: kalabau
Central Melanau: kerebau
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎠᎹ ᏯᎾᏌ (ama yanasa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 水牛 (zh) (shuǐniú)
Danish: vandbøffel c
Dutch: waterbuffel (nl) m, karbouw (nl) m
Finnish: vesipuhveli (fi)
French: buffle d'Asie (fr), buffle des marais (fr), buffle des rivières (fr)
German: Wasserbüffel (de) m
Greek: νεροβούβαλος m (nerovoúvalos)
Hawaiian: pipi Pākē
Hebrew: תאו‎ (he) m (te’ó), ג׳מוס‎ (he) m (jamús)
Hindi: भैंस (hi) f (bhains)
Hungarian: vízibivaly (hu)
Indonesian: kerbau (id)
Irish: buabhall uisce m
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Ivatan: pagad
Japanese: 水牛 (ja) (すいぎゅう, suigyū), スイギュウ (ja) (suigyū), 呉牛 (ごぎゅう, gogyū)
Javanese: kebo (jv)
Kapampangan: damulag
Kazakh: енеке (eneke)
Khamti: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: ក្របី (km) (krɑbəy)
Khün: ᨣ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨿ
Kimaragang: karabau
Korean: 물소 (mulso)
Laboya: kari
Lao: ຄວາຍ (lo) (khuāi)
Latvian: ūdens bifeļu
Lithuanian: vandeninis buivolas m
Lü: ᦩᦻ (xwaay)
Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
Malay: kerbau, benuang
Malayalam: പോത്ത് (ml) m (pōttŭ), എരുമ (ml) f (eruma)
Minangkabau: kabau (min)
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Northern Thai: ᨤ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨿ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vannbøffel (no) m, vassbøffel m

Nynorsk: vassbøffel m
Okinawan: 水牛 (みじうし, mijiushi)
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: گاومیش‎ (fa) (gâvmiš)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Polish: bawół domowy m
Portuguese: búfalo-asiático (pt)
Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: bivol de apă m
Russian: азиа́тский бу́йвол m (aziátskij bújvol), инди́йский бу́йвол m (indíjskij bújvol), бу́йвол (ru) m (bújvol)
Saek: ว๊าย
Scottish Gaelic: buabhall uisge m
Serbo-Croatian: vodeni bivol m
Shan: ၵႂၢႆး (shn) (kwáai)
Slovak: vodný byvol m, byvol vodný m
Spanish: búbalo m, búfalo de agua m
Sundanese: ᮙᮥᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮀ (munding)
Swahili: nyati (sw) class 9/10/1/2
Swedish: vattenbuffel (sv)
Sylheti: ꠜꠂꠍ (bóisó)
Tagal Murut: karabau
Tagalog: kalabaw (tl)
Tai Dam: ꪁꪫꪱꪥ
Tai Nüa: ᥑᥣᥭᥰ (xäay)
Tajik: говмеш (tg) (govmeš)
Tamil: எருமை (ta) (erumai)
Telugu: గేదె (te) (gēde)
Thai: ควาย (th) (kwaai)
Tibetan: མ་ཧེ (ma he)
Turkish: su sığırı (tr), manda (tr), camız (tr), kömüş (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: trâu (vi)
Welsh: byfflo dŵr m
West Coast Bajau: kerabou
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Zhuang: vaiz

water buffalo

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