köken: From Middle High German stier (“bull”), from Old High German stior (“bull, calf of a bull”), from Proto-Germanic *steuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)táwros.
bull (uncastrated adult male bovine) · bull (large, strong man; also, a virile man) · alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (constellation of the Zodiac)
çekim: çoğul tori
eş: rialzista, bull
köken: Inherited from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of tauro, which is a learned borrowing.
aile: prendere il toro per le corna, rana toro, tagliare la testa al toro, torello, toro marino, toro meccanico
Qual è quel toro che si slaccia in quella / c’ ha ricevuto già ’l colpo mortale, / che gir non sa, ma qua e là saltella […]
[…] il pastor, a cui il fier lupo ha tolto / Il più bel toro del cornuto armento
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.
Taurus (constellation of the zodiac containing the star Aldebaran, in the shape of a bull calf) · Taurus (zodiac sign for the bull, covering April 20 — May 20)
köken: From Proto-Turkic *buka (“bull”). This appears to be a loanword from a written Turkic language. Note that үгеҙ (ügeź) is used in Bashkir for the general meaning of 'bull".
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese touro, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros, related to Proto-Semitic *ṯawr- (“bull, ox”). Compare Galician touro and Spanish toro.
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).