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Definition: Cow |
CowNoun1. Female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow'" is a child's term". 2. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'. 3. A large unpleasant woman. Verb1. Subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Cow A cow and her calf were not to be killed on the same day (Lev. 22:28; Ex. 23:19; Deut. 22:6, 7). The reason for this enactment is not given. A state of great poverty is described in the words of Isa. 7:21-25, where, instead of possessing great resources, a man shall depend for the subsistence of himself and his family on what a single cow and two sheep could yield. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Cow The cow that nourished Ymir with four streams of milk was called Audhumla. (Scandinavian mythology.) (See Audhumla.) Curst cows. (See under Curst.) The whiter the cow, the surer is it to go to the altar. The richer the prey, the more likely is it to be seized. "The system of impropriations grew so rapidly that, in the course of three centuries, more than a third part of all the benefices in England became such, and those the richest, for the whiter the cow, the surer was it to go to the alter." - Blant: Reformation in England, p. 63. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | York. The finest crushed lead ore. Also called coe. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | French (putain), Italian (cagna, stronza), Slovak (krava). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | COW. To sleep like a cow, with a **** at one's a-se; said of a married man; married men being supposed to sleep with their backs towards their wives, according to the following proclamation: All you that in your beds do lie, Turn to your wives, and occupy. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Cattle
Larger image,Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Subfamily: Bovinae Genus: Bos species: taurus Binomial name Bos taurus Cattle are domesticated ungulates of the species Bos taurus, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised for meat (called beef), dairy products (milk), and leather, and used for draft (pulling plows and the like). Older English sources such as the King James Version of the Bible also refer to livestock in general as cattle. This article refers to the common modern meaning of cattle.
Terminology
Young cattle are called calves. Young males are called bullocks or bull calves; young females are called heifers. Ordinarily male cattle are castrated unless needed for breeding. The castrated male is then called a steer, unless kept for draft (pulling) in which case it is called an ox. Intact males are called bulls. Adult females over two years of age (approximately) are called cows.There is no singular equivalent to "cattle" other than the various gender and age-specific terms (though "Catron" has been proposed it is not widely accepted or even understood). "Cow" is probably the closest to being gender-neutral, although it is usually understood to mean female (females of other animals, such as whales or elephants, are also called cows.) Some Canadian farmers use the term "cattlebeast." "Neat" and "beef" are obsolescent terms.
The terms bull and cow are also used for the male and female of some other species, including other bovids such as buffalo, but also less closely related species such as moose, elephants, whale, and sea lions. The terms are used primarily to refer to animals or that have polygynous or harem mating systemsm, though "bull" in particular may be used because humans find the male of a species daunting.
Biology
Cattle are ruminants, meaning that they have a unique digestive system that allows them to synthesize amino acids. This allows them to thrive on grasseses and other vegetation.The last European wild cattle, called aurochs, were killed by poachers in Masovia, Poland, in 1627, though one breeder claims to have recreated the original gene pool by careful crossing of commercial breeds.
Uses of cattle
Cattle occupy a unique role in human history. Some consider them the oldest form of wealth. Their ability to provide meat, dairy, and draft while reproducing themselves and eating nothing but grass has furthered human interests dramatically through the millennia.
Larger cow Click photo for more images. In Hinduism, the cow is said to be holy (and thus should not be eaten); "The cow is our Mother, for she gives us her milk."
In Latin America and the western United States, cattle are often grazed on large tracts of rangeland called ranchos or ranches.
In Portugal, Spain and some Latin American countries, bulls are used for the sport of bullfighting; in many other countries, this is illegal.
The recent outbreaks of mad cow disease have reduced or prevented some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or oxtail.
Ox
Oxen (plural of ox) are cattle trained as draft animals. Most often they are adult, castrated males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the need for training and for time to grow to full size. The term steer is used to describe animals of the same species and gender when raised solely for meat. Oxen are used for plowing, transport, hauling, grain-grinding, and wagon drawing. Oxen are sometimes used to skid logs in low-impact select cut logging.Oxen are most often used in teams of two. A wooden yoke is fastened about their necks so that the force of draft is distributed across their shoulders. Oxen are chosen from calves with horns, since the horns hold the yoke in place when the oxen back up or slow down a wheeled load going down hills.
Oxen must be painstakingly trained from a young age. Their teamster must fashion or purchase as many as a dozen yokes of different sizes as the animals grow.
Oxen can pull harder than horses. Though not as fast, they are less prone to injury. There are still a substantial number of them in use worldwide, especially in less developed nations.
Miscellaneous
- The ox is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. See: Ox (Zodiac).
- The constellation Taurus represents a bull.
- In Hinduism, the cow is said to be holy (and thus should not be eaten); "The cow is our Mother, for she gives us her milk."
- A cow is alleged to have started the Great Chicago Fire by kicking over a kerosene lamp.
- On February 18, 1930 Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
Breeds of cattle:
- Angus
- Afrikaner
- Ankole
- Ayrshire
- Beefalo (a cross between domestic cattle and the American Bison)
- Beefmaster
- Belgian Blue
- Belted Galloway
- Black Angus
- Blonde d'Aqui
- Braford
- Brahman
- Brangus
- Braunvieh
- British White
- Brown Swiss
- BueLingo
- Canchim
- Charolais
- Chiangus
- Chianina
- Commercial
- Corriente
- Devon
- Dexter
- Friesian
- Galloway
- Gelbvieh
- Guernsey
- Heck Cattle
- Hereford
- Highland Cattle
- Holstein
- Hybridmaster
- Jersey
- Limousin
- Maine Anjou
- Marchigiana
- Miniature
- Murray Grey
- Normande
- Piedmontese
- Pinzgauer
- Polled Hereford
- Red Angus
- Red Brangus
- Red Poll
- Romagnola
- Salers
- Santa Gertrudis
- Senepol
- Shorthorn
- Simbrah
- Simmental
- South Devon
- Tarentaise
- Texas Longhorn
- Tuli
- Wagyu
- Watusi
- Zebu
See also
- List of domesticated animals
- Artiodactyla
- food, milk, cheese
- bullfighting
- cow tipping
- age of cattle
Other meanings of cow, bull etc
- Papal bull
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cattle."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COW | English | Cut-off wavelength | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CowSynonyms: moo-cow (n), overawe (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Carrier | Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud. |
Fear | Put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow, daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten. |
Husbandry | Neatherd, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper; trainer, breeder; apiarian, apiarist; bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon. |
Productiveness | Milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization. |
Store | Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow. |
Unconformity | Interjection: what on earth! what in the world! What the devil! Holy cow! Can you top that?; Sacre bleu. |
Woman | Hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen. |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Careful, you ham-fisted cow! (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow! (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao) Have a cow, honey (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Don't have a cow, man (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Hey, I've been turned into a cow. Can I go home now (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) | |
Lyrics | I stumble into town just like a sacred cow (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie) That's when she told me a story 'bout free milk and a cow (Keep Your Hands To Yourself; performing artist: Georgia Satellites) Play, it's gonna be close, holy cow, I think he's gonna make it (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf) Third! Holy cow, stolen base (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf) | |
Clever | Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax (references; author: unknown) If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? (references; author: unknown) To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. (references; author: unknown) Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | If you must cross a coarse, cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross, coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Calamity the Cow (1967) Poor Cow (1967) Cow Dog (1956) Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (1938) The Mechanical Cow (1937) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Result of collision between cow and steel truck Triangulation party of H.C. Warwick. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Flying hybrid cow taking in the view Another sight to catch the eye. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A manatee cow and calf. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cow wheat - Melampyrum lineare at South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Cow and calf on a pasture in southern Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Dairy Cow -- In Your Face. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Holstein cow eating silage. Credit: USDA. |  | Hefeford cow calf herd near Kahoka, Missouri. Credit: USDA. |
 | Minutes after giving birth, a 2-year-old cow attends to her newborn calf. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Dryland grazing on the Great Plains in Colorado. Each cow on a pasture can emit about 350 liters (230 grams) of methane per day. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Cow" by Janina Riske Commentary: "Cow." | "Toy Cow close-up" by Erno Bärlund Commentary: "Macro photo of an toy cow from an eastern egg suprise." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cow bellowing. | | Irritated cow moo. |
| Cow bell being hit with a stick once. | | Cow mooing. |
| Clanging cow bell. | | Cow bell being hit with a stick once. |
| Low-toned, dull, hollow sound; short, low tone of a cow bell being struck by a drumstick one time; the middle bell on an agogo. | | Cow bell being hit with a stick once. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Beaumont and Fletcher | Kiss till the cow comes home. |
Dean Rusk | We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks. |
Samuel Johnson | Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | When we overtook him he was climbing a gate, and was gazing earnestly into the field, where a horse, a cow, and a kid were browsing amicably together |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It may be that this lark will become a milch cow. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The driver chewed as rhythmically, as thoughtfully, as a cow. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A lower fractional absorption of 40 percent is found with cow milk-based formulas. (references) | |
Unpasteurized milk can become contaminated if the cow has an infection with Campylobacter in her udder or the milk is contaminated with manure. (references) | ||
A disorder related to CJD , bovine spongiforme encephalopathy or "mad cow disease", and its suspected relationship to an especially severe form of CJD, has generated considerable interest recently in Britain. (references) | ||
Business | Some foreign investors complain that the Government views their operation as a cash cow, whereas the reality is that they must compete with local firms and set their tuition rather low. Difficulties arise due to the inadequate legal framework governing non-state education. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | BSE, the mad cow disease, has triggered a wave of resesarch and the procurement of relevant equipment. (references) |
Indonesia | Mining: Foreign investors operate under coal contracts of work (CCOW) and contracts of work (COW) for general mining. (references) | |
Russia | BSE and foot-and-mouth disease led to a reduction in the EU cow herd size and, consequently, reduced dairy exports to Russia. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robert Atkins | More so. Skim milk has even more because it doesn't even have cream in it. So cream is about the one thing that the cow puts out that doesn't have carbohydrate. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.48% of the time. "Cow" is used about 1,256 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.48% | 1,174 | 6,572 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.78% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.63% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.72% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.16% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,256 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "cow". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Parah | N/A | Biblical | A cow |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "cow": a cow ♦ Ant cow ♦ barren cow ♦ bush cow ♦ cash cow ♦ cow barn ♦ cow bell ♦ cow bitch ♦ cow boy ♦ cow caisson ♦ cow chip ♦ cow cockle ♦ cow comb ♦ cow day ♦ cow dung ♦ cow elephant ♦ cow hand ♦ cow hide ♦ cow in milk ♦ cow lily ♦ cow madness ♦ cow man ♦ cow manure ♦ cow oak ♦ cow orker ♦ cow parsley ♦ cow parsnip ♦ cow pasture ♦ cow pen ♦ cow pie ♦ cow pony ♦ cow pox ♦ cow shark ♦ cow sharks ♦ cow shed ♦ cow smb. into ♦ cow smb. into obedience ♦ Cow tree ♦ cow whale ♦ Cult of the Dead Cow ♦ dairy cow ♦ dairy cow population ♦ elephant cow ♦ grunting cow ♦ hornless cow ♦ jersey cow ♦ lady cow ♦ mad cow disease ♦ milch cow ♦ milk cow ♦ milking cow ♦ sacred cow ♦ sea cow ♦ springing cow ♦ Steller's sea cow ♦ stupid cow ♦ to dry a cow ♦ to dry up a cow ♦ young cow. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cow": cow-bane, cow-bell, cow-bells, cow-berry, cow-boy, cow-boys, cow-breath, cow-brown, cow-byre, cow-byres, cow-catcher, cow-catchers, cow-cockle, cow-country, cow-crossed, cow-dung, cow-fish, cow-flop, cow-free, cow-grazing, cow-heel, cow-herding, cow-hide, cow-hocked, cow-house, cow-houses, cow-keepers, cow-keeping, cow-kick, cow-leech, cow-lick, cow-like, cow-man, cow-muck, cow-noises, cow-nosed ray, cow-parsley, cow-pastures, cow-pat, cow-pats, Cow-pilot, cow-pox, cow-puncher, cow-shed, cow-sheds, cow-tongue fern, cow-town, cow-trodden, cow-truck, cow-wheat, cow-worship. | |
Ending with "cow": bell-cow, brown-cow, cash-cow, dairy-cow, dry-cow, goat-cow, house-cow, lady-cow, lazy-cow, milch-cow, mini-cow, moo-cow, poll-cow, sea-cow, sorry-cow. | |
Containing "cow": long-i-cow-da. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cow | 5,576 | cow tipping | 109 |
cow parade | 1,612 | cheese cow laughing | 108 |
mad cow disease | 1,568 | cow pic | 105 |
mad cow | 1,070 | cow milking | 100 |
cow picture | 737 | cult of the dead cow | 99 |
cow list | 672 | cow joke mad | 96 |
cow pie | 377 | cow clip art | 95 |
holy cow | 279 | cow with gun | 92 |
cow cartoon | 245 | cow print | 91 |
cow gift | 238 | top cow | 90 |
two cow | 238 | jersey cow | 87 |
cow figurine | 166 | cow bell | 86 |
cow and chicken | 159 | cow its | 85 |
cow collectible | 150 | cow list porn | 83 |
cow girl | 128 | creative cow | 83 |
dairy cow | 127 | cow man | 78 |
cow skinny | 122 | buying the cow | 78 |
cow sex | 120 | cow photo | 78 |
cow clipart | 117 | purple cow | 77 |
milk cow | 114 | tu cow | 73 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | koei. (various references) | |
Albanian | lopë (neat). (various references) | |
Arabic | أنثى الفيل, أنثى الحوت, روع (appal, appall, awe, daunt, put the wind up, scare, spook, stare, terrify, terrorize), بقرة (boss, creature). (various references) | |
Asturian | vaca. (various references) | |
Basque | behi. (various references) | |
Bemba | ingombe. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | áápotskina. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | укротявам (break in, calm down, manage, master, mollify, pacify, settle, subdue, tame, twit), сплашвам (browbeat, bulldoze, daunt, intimidate, psyche), тероризирам (huff, terrorize), крава (bossy, neat), отвратително нещо (abhorrence, abomination), отвратителен човек (shocker, toad), женска (female). (various references) | |
Catalan | vaca. (various references) | |
Cebuano | baka. (various references) | |
Chamorro | guaka. (various references) | |
Chinese | 母牛 . (various references) | |
Cornish | bugh. (various references) | |
Czech | kráva. (various references) | |
Danish | ko. (various references) | |
Dutch | koe (bovine). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | huacra. (various references) | |
Esperanto | bovino, bova (bovine, cow-). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kúgv. (various references) | |
Farsi | ماده گاو, گاوماده , تضعیف روحیه کردن (Demoralize), ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Bash, Buffalo, Daunt, Deter, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Shore, Spook, Threat, Tremble). (various references) | |
Finnish | lehmä. (various references) | |
French | vache. (various references) | |
Frisian | ko. (various references) | |
German | Kuh, rind (beef, bovine, bovine animal, cattle). (various references) | |
Greek | αγελάδα. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | lopë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להפחיד (browbeat, bully, daunt, dismay, frighten, put the wind up, scare, terrify), פרה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tehén (bovine, bovine animal, kine). (various references) | |
Icelandic | kýr. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sapi, menakut-nakuti, lembu (cattle). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | immuksiugaq. (various references) | |
Irish | bó. (various references) | |
Italian | vacca. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雌牛 (heifer), 牛 (cattle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うし (caries, cattle, cavity, decayed tooth, second sign of Chinese zodiac, tooth decay), めうし (heifer). (various references) | |
Kongo | ngombe. (various references) | |
Korean | 암소 (Cows). (various references) | |
Lombard | vacca. (various references) | |
Macedonian | krava. (various references) | |
Malay | sapi. (various references) | |
Manx | cur smaght er (govern), bwoirrinagh (crumpet, doe, female, female any age, girl, lass, wench). (various references) | |
Maori | kau. (various references) | |
Maya | wakax. (various references) | |
Mohawk | tyonnhonhskwaron. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ku. (various references) | |
Occitan | vaca. (various references) | |
Papago | haiwani. (various references) | |
Papiamen | baka. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owcay.(various references) | |
Polish | krowa. (various references) | |
Portuguese | vaca. (various references) | |
Provencal | vaca. (various references) | |
Romanian | viţã (blood, brute, name, race), vacå, vacã (moo, neat), speria (affright, alarm, deter, discourage, frighten, funk, horrify, scare, shake, shy, start, terrify), intimida (browbeat, bully, concuss, confuse, daunt, face down, frighten, intimidate, shake), femelã (bitch, dam, female, mate, she). (various references) | |
Romansch | vatga. (various references) | |
Romany | gooroovnì. (various references) | |
Ruanda | inka. (various references) | |
Russian | корова коровий, корова (bossy, neat), запугивать (bluff, browbeat, bullyrag, concuss, daunt, huff, intimidate, intimidating). (various references) | |
Samoan | povi (beef). (various references) | |
Scottish | bó (a cow, bhó). (various references) | |
Sepedi | kgomogadi. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaplašiti (daunt, get the wind up, give the chills, intimidate, scare), krava, ženka (female). (various references) | |
Shona | mhou. (various references) | |
Sicilian | vacca. (various references) | |
Spanish | vaca (neat). (various references) | |
Sranan | kaw (bovine, bovine animal, chew). (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-khomâti. (various references) | |
Swedish | ko (kow). (various references) | |
Thai | วัวตัวเมีย, ขู่ (overawe). (various references) | |
Turkish | yıldırmak (appall, be a disincentive to, browbeat, daunt, deter, discourage, frustrate, mau-mau), sindirmek (assimilate, damp, digest, Hector, overawe, soften, stand for, stomach), korkutmak (administer a shock, affright, alarm, appal, appall, awe, bulldoze, daunt, dismay, fright, frighten, funk, horrify, intimidate, overawe, scare, startle, terrorize, threaten), inek (mug), büyük hayvan, ínek. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sygyr. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тероризувати (terrorize), корова (bossy, neat), залякувати (ballyrag, bludgeon, bluff off, brag, browbeat, bull-dose, bully, daunt, terrify, terrorize). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cá voi cái, vô tận (ad infinitum, endless, infinity, interminable, measureless, termless, unbounded, unlimited), tê giác cái, lâu dài (enduring, lasting, long-term), bò cái voi cái. (various references) | |
Welsh | buwch (calf). (various references) | |
Yucatec | wakax (bovine, bovine animal, bull). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arabum, bana, bani, banus, bar, bara, baria, bos, bos (bovis ), bosforo, bosoramus, boum, boumque, bove, bovem, boves, bovesque, bovi, bovillus, bovinus, bovis, bublus, bubulus, bubus, carnero, conpresserit, conpresserunt, conprimaris, conprimebant, conprimentem, conprimerent, conprimit, conprimunt, vacca, vaccae, vaccam, vaccas, vaccasque. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | gava. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eipen de autw labe moi damalin trietizousan kai aiga trietizousan kai krion trietizonta kai trugona kai peristeran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Respondens Dominus sume inquit mihi vaccam triennem et capram trimam et arietem annorum trium turturem quoque et columbam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | God cwæð eft to him, "Geoffra me to lace an þrywintre hryðer ond ænne þrywinterne ram, ond and þrywintre gat, ond sume turtlan, ond sume culfran." |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the Lord answeride, Take, he seith, to thee a kow of thre yeer, and a she gehet of thre yeer, and a wethir of thre yeer, and a turtur, and a culuer. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sayde vnto him: take an heyfer of .iij. yere olde and a she gotte of thre yeres olde and a thre yere olde ram a turtill doue and a yonge pigeon. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya miingon kaniya: Ikuha ako ug usa ka nati nga baye sa vaca, nga totolo na ka tuig, ug usa ka kanding nga baye nga totolo na ka tuig, usa ka tokmo usab, ug usa ka kuyabog sa salampati. |
| Croatian | Odgovori mu: "Prinesi mi junicu od tri godine, kozu od tri godine, ovna od tri godine, jednu grlicu i jednog golubiæa." |
| Danish | Da sagde han til ham: "Tag mig en treårs Kvie, en treårs Ged og en treårs Væder, en Turteldue og en Småfugl!" |
| Dutch | En Hij zeide tot hem: Neem Mij een driejarige vaars, en een driejarige geit, en een driejarigen ram, en een tortelduif, en een jonge duif. |
| Finnish | Ja hän sanoi hänelle: "Tuo minulle kolmivuotias hieho, kolmivuotias vuohi ja kolmivuotias oinas sekä metsäkyyhkynen ja nuori kyyhkynen". |
| French | Et l`Éternel lui dit: Prends une génisse de trois ans, une chèvre de trois ans, un bélier de trois ans, une tourterelle et une jeune colombe. |
| German | Und er sprach zu ihm: Bringe mir eine dreijährige Kuh und eine dreijährige Ziege und einen dreijährigen Widder und eine Turteltaube und eine junge Taube. |
| Haitian Creole | Seyè a di l'. Pran yon ti gazèl bèf twazan, yon fenmèl kabrit twazan, yon belye twazan, yon toutrèl ak yon jenn pijon. |
| Hungarian | És felele néki: Hozz nékem egy három esztendõs üszõt, egy három esztendõs kecskét, és egy három esztendõs kost, egy gerliczét és egy galambfiat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jawab TUHAN, "Ambillah untuk-Ku seekor sapi betina, seekor kambing betina dan seekor kambing jantan, masing-masing berumur tiga tahun, dan juga seekor burung tekukur dan seekor burung merpati." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka firman Tuhan kepadanya: Persembahkanlah kepada-Ku seekor lembu betina, yang tiga tahun umurnya, dan seekor kambing betina, yang tiga tahun umurnya, dan seekor domba jantan, yang tiga tahun umurnya, dan burung tekukur seekor, dan anak merpati. |
| Italian | Gli disse: «Prendimi una giovenca di tre anni, una capra di tre anni, un ariete di tre anni, una tortora e un piccione». |
| Maori | Na ka mea ia ki a ia, Tikina tetahi kau maku, hei te tau toru, me tetahi koati uha, hei te tau toru, me tetahi hipi toa, hei te tau toru, me tetahi kukupa, me tetahi pi kukupa. |
| Norwegian | Da sa han til ham: Hent mig en treårsgammel kvige og en treårsgammel gjet og en treårsgammel vær og en turteldue og en dueunge. |
| Portuguese | Respondeu-lhe: Toma-me uma novilha de três anos, uma cabra de três anos, um carneiro de três anos, uma rola e um pombinho. |
| Rumanian | Wi Domnul i -a zis: ,,Ia o juncanq de trei ani, o caprq de trei ani, un berbec de trei ani, o turturea wi un pui de porumbel.`` |
| Swedish | Då sade han till honom: "Tag åt mig en treårig kviga, en treårig get och en treårig vädur, därtill en turturduva och en ung duva." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cow": cowage, cowages, coward, cowardice, cowardices, cowardliness, cowardlinesses, cowardly, cowards, cowbane, cowbanes, cowbell, cowbells, cowberries, cowberry, cowbind, cowbinds, cowbird, cowbirds, cowboy, cowboys, cowcatcher, cowcatchers, cowed, cowedly, cower, cowered, cowering, cowers, cowfish, cowfishes, cowflap, cowflaps, cowflop, cowflops, cowgirl, cowgirls, cowhage, cowhages, cowhand, cowhands, cowherb, cowherbs, cowherd, cowherds, cowhide, cowhided, cowhides, cowhiding, cowier, cowiest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cow": scow. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cow": becoward, becowarded, becowarding, becowards, locoweed, locoweeds, scowder, scowdered, scowdering, scowders, scowed, scowing, scowl, scowled, scowler, scowlers, scowling, scowlingly, scowls, scows, stuccowork, stuccoworks. (additional references) | |
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"Cow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acwo, cawf, cawo, cawy, ccw, cew, cfo, chw, ciew, ciw, cko, clow, cmw, cnw, coa, coew, coj, coow, Cotw, cou, couw, cov, cowa, cowd, cowe, cowi, cown, cowp, cowy, cupw, cuw, cvo, cwe, cwm, cwn, cwo, czo, ecw, kow, kowk, kyow, oc, Oow, ow, tcow, Ucw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cow" (pronounced kou") |
| 2 | k ou" | scow. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-w" | |
-1 letter: ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-w" | |
+1 letter: chow, cowl, cows, cowy, crow, scow. | |
+2 letters: cahow, chows, clown, cowed, cower, cowls, cowry, crowd, crown, crows, scowl, scows, wacko, wilco. | |
+3 letters: cahows, callow, chowed, chowse, clowns, cobweb, cogway, cowage, coward, cowboy, cowers, cowier, cowing, cowled, cowman, cowmen, cowpat, cowpea, cowpie, cowpox, cowrie, crowds, crowdy, crowed, crower, crowns, escrow, scowed, scowls, sowcar, wackos, whacko, wicopy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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