köken: Inherited from Middle High German ohse. Cognate with Dutch os, West Frisian okse, Saterland Frisian Okse, Low German Oss, Plautdietsch Oss, Yiddish אָקס (oks), Icelandic oxi and uxi, Faroese oksi, Norwegian Bokmål okse, Norwegian Nynorsk okse, Swedish oxe, Danish okse, and English ox.
köken: Inherited from Middle French bœuf, from Old French buef, boef, from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (compare English cow). The music sense derives from the expression “faire un Bœuf”, after the Parisian cabaret-bar Le Bœuf sur le toit where jam sessions were held.
aile: bœuf bourguignon, effet bœuf, fort comme un bœuf, langue de bœuf, mettre la charrue avant les bœufs, nerf de bœuf, qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf, suer comme un bœuf
faire un bœuf
"T'as peut-être fait quelque chose de croche. Si toi tu le sais pas, les bœufs le savent, eux."
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (TWRA /gāw/), from Old Persian *gāuš, 𐎥𐎢 (“g-u”), from Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognate to English cow, Urdu گائے (gāe) / Hindi गाय (gāy), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊 (gao), Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Latin bōs.
corpulent person · cuckold (man married to an unfaithful wife) · ugly person
çekim: çoğul bois
eş: cabaça, grogoiô, maricas
köken: PIE word *gʷṓws Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs, itself a borrowing from some Osco-Umbrian language dialect, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Compare Galician boi. Doublet of bife.
aile: aboiar, boi bento, boi de piranha, boi de sela, boi preto, boi-cavalo, boi-corneta, boi-marinho, boiada, boiadeiro
ox, steer, stag · meat from a bull, beef · bull (investor who buys in anticipation of a rise in prices)
çekim: çoğul härät · tamlayan härän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *härkä (compare Estonian härg), probably borrowed from Baltic. * (Taurus): Semantic loan from Latin taurus. * (Ox in the Chinese zodiac): Semantic loan from Chinese 牛宿 (Niúxiù).
a draft animal (a large domestic animal suitable for drawing a plow: an ox, a horse) · synonym of armenta: such animals taken collectively
çekim: çoğul armenta · tamlayan armentī
köken: A reanalysis of the older feminine singular armenta as a neuter plural, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mn̥-teh₂, from *h₂er- (“to join”) + *-mn̥ + *-teh₂. Semantic development was "grouping, joining" > "herd". Related to arma. Others (included ancient Romans) refer it to arō (“to plow”).
aile: armentālis
1st century, L. Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Res Rustica, Book VI, Preface, Sect. 3
Aliī nōn Diānae, sed Apollinī Nomiō cōnsecrātum carmen hoc volunt, quō tempore Admētī rēgis pāvit armenta.