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English

Etymology

From Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin b?falus, from Latin b?balus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?f.?l.??/
• (US) enPR: b?f'?-l?, IPA^(key): /?b?f.?.lo?/

Noun

buffalo (plural buffaloes or buffalos or buffalo)

1. Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis.
2. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
3. A buffalo robe.
4. The buffalo fish.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

buffalo (third-person singular simple present buffaloes, present participle buffaloing, simple past and past participle buffaloed)

1. (transitive) To hunt buffalo.
2. (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
3. (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.

Translations

See also

• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on Wikipedia

References

• buffalo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from English buffalo.

Pronunciation

Noun

buffalo

1. buffalo (Asian or African)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland