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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

Bukiyip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jæm?]

Noun

yama

1. mother

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Jamamadí

Noun

yama

1. (Banawá) thing

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

yama

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Romanization

yama

1. Romanization of ??

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish llamar and Portuguese chamar.

Verb

yama

1. to call (shout)
2. to be called (one's name)
3. to call by telephone

Phuthi

Etymology

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Verb

-yáma

1. to touch

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Noun

yamá

1. (archaic) duty or responsibility

Etymology 2

Noun

yamâ

1. (archaic) touch; sense of touch

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????.

Noun

yama (definite accusative yamay?, plural yamalar)

1. birthmark
2. patch
3. (computing) patch
4. (film) reprint, slug, build-up
5. (surgery) graft

See also

• ben
• leke

Declension