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: Inherited from Old Spanish buey, from Vulgar Latin *boem for Latin bovem (compare Italian bue), accusative singular of bōs. The variants güey and wey represent a neutralization of the clusters /bw/ and /gw/. Doublet of bife.
aile: a paso de buey, buey almizclero, buey de cabestrillo, buey de carga, buey de caza, buey de mar, buey de marzo, buey del Pacífico, buey viejo surco derecho, hablar de bueyes perdidos
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
köken: Of native Korean origin. From Middle Korean 한쇼 (Yale: hansyo), 하- (ha-, “big; great”) + -ㄴ (-n) + 소 (swo, “bull, cow”). However, later contaminated by 황(黃) (hwang, “yellow”) + 소 (so, “bull, cow”). For a similar change, see 황새 (hwangsae, “stork”).
bull (adult, uncastrated male cattle) · bull (meat of this animal) · stag (adult male of large, plant-eating game animals)
çekim: çoğul byki · tamlayan byka
eş: Tau, ♉
köken: Inherited from Old Polish byk. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from English bull market and sense 6 is a semantic loan from English bull.
aile: po byku, jak byk, z byka, byczak, byczość, bykowiec, chwycić byka za rogi, chwytać byka za rogi, leżeć martwym bykiem, podziałać jak płachta na byka
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).