calf

(Αγγλικός)

  1. A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
  2. Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
  3. The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
  4. A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
  5. A small island, near a larger island.
  6. A cabless railroad engine.
  7. (dated, informal) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

Συχνότητα

C1
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/kɑːf/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

In summary

From Middle English calf, from Anglian Old English cælf, calf (West Saxon ċealf); also cognate with Scots caff, calf, cauf, cawf (“calf”), North Frisian Kualev, kualew, kuulew (“calf”), Saterland Frisian Koolich (“calf”), West Frisian keal (“calf”), German Kalb (“calf”), Luxembourgish Kallef (“calf”), Limburgish and Dutch kalf (“calf”), Vilamovian kołb, kołp (“calf”), Faroese kálvur (“calf”), Icelandic kálfur (“calf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish kalv (“calf”), from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, further etymology unknown.

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γάμπα

δαμαλάκι

μόσχος

κνήμη

βόδι

άπειρος νέος

γαστροκνήμιο

αγελάδα

γαστροκνημία

ταύρος

δαμάλι

ευνουχισμένος ταύρος

μοσχαρίσιος

ταυράκι

mo’sxari

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