billy goat

See also: billygoat and billy-goat

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the name Billy, early 19th c.

Noun

billy goat (plural billy goats)

(childish) A male goat.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 141:
  There were once upon a time three Billy-goats, who were going up into the hills to get fat.

Synonyms

(male goat): billy, buck, he-goat
(Ireland): pocán

Antonyms

nanny goat

Translations

male goat

Albanian: sqap (sq) m, cjap (sq) m,
Arabic: تَيْس‎ (ar) m (tays)
Hijazi Arabic: تيس‎ m (tēs)
Armenian: նոխազ (hy) (noxaz), քաղ (hy) (kʿał), քոշ (hy) (kʿoš)
Assamese: মতা ছাগলী (mota sagoli); (uncastrated): ভোবোলা (bhübüla), ভোবোলা ছাগলী (bhübüla sagoli) ভোবোৰা (bhübüra), ভোবোৰা ছাগলী (bhübüra sagoli)
Asturian: castrón (ast), cabrón (ast)
Avestan: 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀‎ m (būza)
Bashkir: тәкә (täkä), кәзә тәкәһе (käzä täkähe)
Basque: aker
Belarusian: казёл m (kazjól)
Breton: bouc’h (br) m
Bulgarian: козе́л (bg) m (kozél) пръч (bg) m (prǎč)
Burmese: ဆိတ်ထီး (my) (hcithti:)
Catalan: boc (ca) m, cabró (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雄山羊 (xióng shānyáng)
Czech: kozel (cs) m
Danish: buk c, gedebuk c
Dutch: bok (nl) m
Edo: ovbukhọ
Esperanto: virkapro (eo), boko (eo), kapriĉo (neologism)
Faroese: geitarbukkur m, bukkur m, havur m, geitarhavur m
Finnish: pukki (fi)
French: bouc (fr) m
Friulian: cjavron m, čhavron m
Galician: castrón (gl) m, bode (gl) m, cabrón (gl) m, godallo (gl) m
Georgian: ვაცი (vaci)
German: Ziegenbock (de) m, Geißbock (de) m, Bock (de) m, Ziegenmännchen n
Alemannic German: Geissbock m

Middle High German: bock m

Old High German: boc m
Greek: τράγος (el) m (trágos), τραγί (el) n (tragí)
Ancient: τράγος m (trágos)
Hebrew: תַּיִשׁ‎ (he) m (táyish)
Hungarian: bakkecske (hu)
Ido: kaprulo (io)
Igala: òbúkọ
Interlingua: capro
Irish: poc gabhair m, pocán m, boc m
Old Irish: bocc m
Italian: caprone (it) m, becco (it) m, capro (it) m, irco (it) m
Jamaican Creole: ram goat
Japanese: 雄山羊 (おやぎ, oyagi), 雄ヤギ (おやぎ, oyagi)
Kashmiri: ژھاوُل‎ (ks) (ċhāvul)
Kazakh: теке (teke)
Korean: 숫염소 (sudyeomso)
Latin: hircus m, caper (la) m
Latvian: āzis (lv) m
Lezgi: кьун (q̇un)
Lithuanian: ožỹs (lt) m
Low German: Buck (nds) m, Zegenbuck m, Zägenbuck m, Segenbuck m, Sägenbuck m
Luxembourgish: Geessebock m
Macedonian: јарец m (jarec), прч m (prč)
Manx: bock goayr m
Middle English: bucke
Mongolian: ухна (mn) (uxna)
Navajo: tłʼízíchǫǫh, tłʼízíkąʼ
Norman: bichot m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: geitebukk m

Nynorsk: geitebukk m
Old Church Slavonic: козьлъ m (kozĭlŭ)
Old English: bucca m, hæfer m
Old Norse: hafr m, bukkr m
Old Prussian: azuks m
Ottoman Turkish: تكه‎ (teke), اركج‎ (erkec)
Persian: تگه‎ (tage), کل‎ (fa) (kal), شاک‎ (fa) (šâk), نهاز‎ (fa) (nohâz)
Polish: kozioł (pl) m, (old male): cap (pl) m
Portuguese: bode (pt) m, cabrão (pt) m
Romanian: țap (ro) m
Russian: козёл (ru) m (kozjól)
Sanskrit: अज (sa) m (aja), छाग (sa) m (chāga)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ја̏рац m

Roman: jȁrac (sh) m
Sicilian: beccu (scn) m
Slovak: cap (sk) m, kozel m
Slovene: kozel (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kózoł m

Upper Sorbian: kоzоł m
Spanish: cabro (es) m, cabrón (es) m
Swahili: beberu (sw)
Swedish: bock (sv) c
Tagalog: lambayan
Turkish: teke (tr)
Ukrainian: козе́л (uk) m (kozél), цап (uk) m (cap)
Uyghur: تېكە‎ (tëke)
Venetian: cavron
Volapük: hikapar (vo)
Walloon: bok (wa) m
Welsh: bwch m
Wolof: sikket bi
Yiddish: צאַפּ‎ m (tsap), באָק‎ m (bok)
Yoruba: òbúkọ, òrúkọ
Zazaki: khel
Zulu: imbuzi yebhili

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