different between male vs cow

English

Etymology

From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of m?s (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?l, IPA^(key): /me?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: mail

Adjective

male (not generally comparable, comparative maler or more male, superlative malest or most male)

1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]

   male writers

   the leading male and female singers

   a male bird feeding a seed to a female

   in bee colonies, all drones are male

   intersex male patients

   • 1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain (Taylor Pub, ?ISBN):

     We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern.

   • 2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online (?ISBN):

     Whereas many other trans male vloggers use the videos to assert a conventionally recognizable masculinity through sculpting and carrying their bodies as well as dressing and talking in masculine-coded ways, Carson explores and plays with ways of expressing femininity within (trans) maleness.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

   stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration

   • 2006, Bonnie Roberts, Bruises on the Heart (?ISBN), page 118:

     A bright light was shone in her eye and then she heard a kind, male voice who she figured must be Dr. Smith. “Yes, let her rest now, but keep an eye on her blood pressure and her pulse. Check her about every 15 or 20 minutes. Call me if any problem occurs.”

   • 2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study (?ISBN):

     More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

   the male chromosome;   like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones

4. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
   • 2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3

     If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.

5. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware. [from 16th c.]
   • 1982, Popular Science, page 119:

     Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic;

Synonyms

• manly, mannish, masculine
• (figurative: of instuments, etc): plug, pin

Coordinate terms

• female; androgynous; intersex; non-binary
• (grammar): female: see also masculine

Derived terms

• male-assigned, cis male, trans male
• male-dominated

Translations

Noun

male (plural males)

1. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
   1. A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
   2. An animal of the sex that has testes.
   3. A plant of the masculine sex.

Antonyms

• female

Hyponyms

• man, boy

Translations

See also

• macho
• ? (symbol for male)
• sex, gender, gender identity

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Lema, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, lema, meal, mela, mela-

Afar

Etymology

From maléey (“no”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??le/

Particle

malé

1. no

Synonyms

• maléey

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?l?/, [?mæ?l?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German m?len (“to draw, paint”), from Proto-Germanic *m?l?n?, which could be related to *mail? (“spot, blemish, mark”). Cognate with Icelandic mála (“to paint”).

Verb

male (imperative mal, present maler, past malede or malte, past participle malet or malt)

1. To paint.

Derived terms

• maler (“painter”)
• maleri (“painting”)
• maling (“paint”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mala, from Proto-Germanic *malan? (“to grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, rub, break up”). Cognate with Icelandic mala.

Verb

male (imperative mal, infinitive at male, present tense maler, past tense malede, perfect tense er/har malet)

1. To grind, mill.

Derived terms

• maling (“grinding”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

male

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of maal

Verb

male

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of malen

Esperanto

Etymology

From prefix mal- (antonym) +? -e (indicates adverbs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?male/
• Hyphenation: ma?le
• Rhymes: -ale
• Audio:

Adverb

male

1. on the contrary
2. opposingly; in opposition

Estonian

Etymology

From malev (“army”), a word attested in the 13th century Livonian Chronicle of Henry. Coined by Ado Grenzstein in the 19th century.

Noun

male (genitive male, partitive malet)

1. (board games) chess

Declension

See also

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l?

Verb

male

1. inflection of malen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Italian

Etymology

From Latin male.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.le/

Adverb

male (comparative: peggio; superlative: malissimo)

1. badly, wrongly

   Antonym: bene

Noun

male m (plural mali)

1. evil, harm
2. pain, ache, illness, sickness, disease

Antonyms

• bene

Derived terms

Related terms

• malfare
• malo
• malvagio

Adjective

male

1. (archaic) feminine plural of malo (“bad”)

See also

• dolore

Anagrams

• alme
• lame
• mela

Latin

Etymology

From malus (“bad, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.le/, [?mä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.le/, [?m??l?]

Adverb

male (comparative p?ius, superlative pessim?)

1. badly
2. wrongly
3. cruelly, wickedly
4. not much; feebly

Derived terms

• maled?c?
• malefaci?
• n?n male

Related terms

• malus

Descendants

References

• male in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• male in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• male in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch m?len, from Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malan?.

Verb

male

1. To mill.

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mála and Middle Low German malen

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

1. To paint.

See also

• måle (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mala

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past mol or malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

1. To grind or mill (to make smaller by breaking with a device).
2. To purr (of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented)

Derived terms

• den som kommer først til mølla, får først malt (to mill)
• hvitmalt (painted white)
• maleri (painting)
• male seg inn i et hjørne (to paint)
• maling (paint, painting)
• rødmalt (painted red)
• skjønnmale (to paint)
• umalt (both senses)

References

• “male” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

male (present tense mel, past tense mol, supine male, past participle malen, present participle malande, imperative mal)

1. Alternative form of mala

Etymology 2

Verb

male (present tense malar, past tense mala, past participle mala, passive infinitive malast, present participle malande, imperative mal)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by måle, to paint.

Old French

Alternative forms

• malle

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mala, from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”).

Noun

male f (oblique plural males, nominative singular male, nominative plural males)

1. pack, bag

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: male
  • ? Middle English: male, maile, mayll
    • English: mail
    • Scots: male, mail
  • ?? Irish: mála (or perhaps via English)
• Middle French: malle
  • French: malle
  • ? Portuguese: mala
  • ? Spanish: mala
• Gallo: mol
• Walloon: male (Forrières)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

male

1. locative singular of mala (“dirt”)

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin male. Compare Italian male.

Adverb

male

1. badly

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

male

1. inflection of mal:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kou, IPA^(key): /ka?/
• \? ka?\
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English cou, cu, from Old English c? (“cow”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?, from Proto-Germanic *k?z (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws (“cow”).

Cognate with Sanskrit ?? (go), Ancient Greek ???? (boûs), Persian ???? (g?v)), Latvian govs (“cow”), Proto-Slavic *gov?do (Serbo-Croatian govedo, Russian ???????? (govjadina) ("beef")), Scots coo (“cow”), North Frisian ko, kø (“cow”), West Frisian ko (“cow”), Dutch koe (“cow”), Low German Koh, Koo, Kau (“cow”), German Kuh (“cow”), Swedish ko (“cow”), Norwegian ku (“cow”), Icelandic kýr (“cow”), Latin b?s (“ox, bull, cow”), Armenian ??? (kov, “cow”).

The plural kine is from Middle English kyne, kyn, kuin, kiin, kien (“cows”), either a double plural of Middle English ky, kye (“cows”), equivalent to modern kye +? -en, or inherited from Old English c?na (“cows', of cows”), genitive plural of c? (“cow”).

Noun

cow (plural cows or cattle or kine) (see usage notes)

1. (properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.

2. (formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
3. (uncommon) Beef: the meat of cattle as food.

4. (uncommon) Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
5. (biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
6. (derogatory, Britain, Australia, informal) A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXII, [1]

     […] the worst insult to a woman, either in London or Paris, is "cow"; a name which might even be a compliment, for cows are among the most likeable of animals.

   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2:

     Greville Preston: You've been set up, you silly cow. Now, don't let me hear any more about this unless you have absolute stand-up-in-court proof it's kosher...
     Mattie Storin: Pig.

7. (mining) A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.

Usage notes

The plural cows is the normal plural for multiple individuals, while cattle is used in a more collective sense. The umlaut plurals kee, kie, kine, ky and kye are archaic or dialectal, and are not in common use.

Synonyms

• (derogatory: despicable woman): bitch
• (female animal):
  • (female dolphin): dolphinet (archaic)
• (informal: anything annoyingly difficult): bastard, bitch, bugger (UK)

Antonyms

• (female domesticated ox or other bovine): bull (male, uncastrated), ox or steer (male, castrated), heifer (female, immature)

Hyponyms

• (young or little): cowlet, cowling

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: kaw
• Tok Pisin: kau
• ? Abenaki: kaoz (from cows)
• ? Maori: kau

Translations

See cow/translations § Noun.

See also

• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse kúga (“to oppress”) (whence also Norwegian and Danish kue, Swedish kuva); compare Icelandic kúfa (“to set on top”) and Faroese kúga (“to oppress”).

Verb

cow (third-person singular simple present cows, present participle cowing, simple past and past participle cowed)

1. (transitive, chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.

   • To vanquish a people already cowed.

Derived terms

• cowed
• cowedly
• cowedness
• uncowed

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

cow (plural cows)

1. (Britain, dialect) A chimney cowl.

Anagrams

• CWO, WOC

Huave

Noun

cow

1. metate (grinding stone)

Derived terms

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 88, 252

Middle English

Noun

cow

1. Alternative form of cou