zébu

zebu

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ze.by/

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan: ཟེ་བ

In summary

Probably from Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male offspring of a female cow and yak bull”), from Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, from མཛོ (mdzo, “cow and yak hybrid”) + པོ (po, “suffix for males”)); or, from a similar Tibeto-Burman source, such as Tibetan ཟེ་བ (ze ba, “zebu or camel's hump”).

Concepts

zebu

humped cattle

humped ox

Brahman

zebu cattle

bos indicus

Synonyms

bos indicus

bovin zébu

Translations

cebú

Zebu

zebù

zeboe

zebu

Buckelrind

zebu

zebú

درباني

ζεμπού

bos taurus indicus

gado zebu

Zebu

bos indicus

zebu