zébu

See also: zebu, Zebu, and zebù

French

Etymology

Probably from Tibetan [script needed] (dzo-po, “male offspring of a female cow and yak bull”), from Classical Tibetan [script needed] (mdzo-po), from [script needed] (mdzo, “cow and yak hybrid”) + [script needed] (-po, “suffix for males”); or, from a similar Tibeto-Burman source, such as Tibetan [script needed] (ze-ba, “camel's hump”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ze.by/
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Noun

zébu m (plural zébus, feminine zébue or zébute)

  1. zebu

Descendants
  • → Portuguese: zebu

References
  1. “zebu”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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