calf
Senso (Inglese)
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- A cabless railroad engine.
- (dated, informal) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Concetti
sinonimi
young cow
lower leg
bull calf
young animal
baby elephant
calf of leg
calf of the leg
calved ice
beby cattle
knee-pit
little calf
baby animal
small animal
small child
young bull
Traduzioni
veau
Kalb
ternero
kalf
bezerro
dana
μοσχάρι
vitellusFrequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/kɑːf/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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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