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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

English

Alternative forms

• kaimak
• kajmak

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”).

Noun

kaymak (uncountable)

1. A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.

Translations

Further reading

• kaymak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic kañak? (kañak), kayak? (kayak, “cream layer that forms on top of milk after boiling”), from kaña-? (kaña-, “1. to boil, 2. to melt, become liquid”), from kañ? (kañ, “fountainhead, spring, source of a stream”), from Proto-Turkic. See kaynamak.

Noun

kaymak (definite accusative kayma??, plural kaymaklar)

1. kaymak
2. (figuratively) best part of something

Declension

Derived terms

• kaymakl?
• kaymaks?z
• kaymaklanmak

Related terms

• kaynak

Etymology 2

From Old Turkic kay-? (kay-, “to turn (towards a direction or a thing), look after, have interest in, pay attention to”), from Proto-Turkic *k?y-, *K?j-. Ni?anyan thinks the meaning shift towards "to slip, slide" since the 15th century is due to the idiom aya?? kaymak (“to loose one's footing”) which is the result of turning and spraining of foot.

Verb

kaymak (third-person singular simple present kayar)

1. (intransitive) to slide; to slip, skid

2. (intransitive) to shift

3. (intransitive, slang) to fuck, insult, swear

Conjugation

Antonyms

• kaymamak

Derived terms

• kayak
• kaykay
• kaygan
• kay?lmak
• kayd?rmak
• sinekkayd?

Related terms

• kayg?
• kay?k

References