Pronunciation

• AHD : kăt'l
• IPA : /ˈkæt(ə)l/
• SAMPA : /"k{t(@)l/

Noun

cattle (plural)

1. four-legged ruminant mammals of the bovine genus. Male: bull (uncastrated), steer (castrated). Female: cow. Young: calf. Young male: bullock . Young female: heifer.

   Do you want to raise cattle?

2. (Rare.) beef.

   I hate eating cattle.

Scientific name

• Bos taurus

Translations

• Albanian: kau i egër
• Basque: behi-azienda
• Belarusian: карова
• Breton: chatal pl penn-chatal singulier m
• Bulgarian: говедо , скот (govedo , skot )
• Catalan: boví
• Chinese: 牛 (niú)
• Croatian: govedo
• Czech: skot
• Danish: tamkvæg
• Dutch: rund n
• Ekspreso: vakon
• Esperanto : bovino (bov´ in´o).
• Estonian: veis
• Faroese: neyt

  nauta, karja

• French: bovin m
• Frisian: ko
• Friulian: bovin / nemâl
• Gallegan: boi

  Rind n

• Greek: βόδι (taurus)
• Hungarian: szarvasmarha
• Icelandic: kýr , naut
• Indonesian: sapi
• Interlingua: vacca
• Irish: ba (plural)
• Italian: bovino
• Japanese: 牛 (うし , ushi)
• Korean: 소 (so)
• Ladin: arment
• Latin: Bos taurus primigenius
• Latvian: liellopigovs
• Lithuanian: galvijai m, pl, pekus m (archaic, means herd of cattle)
• Lower Sorbian: gowjedo
• Macedonian: говедо (govedo )
• Maltese: bhejjem
• Norwegian: kveg , oksedyr
• Occitan: vaca
• Polish: bydło n
• Portuguese: bovino
• Romanian: vite
• Romansh: bov
• Romany: gurumnya f
• Russian: скот (skot) m
• Sami: burru , vuoksá; gussa (cow)
• Sardinian: bulu , óinu , bàcchinu , bóinu , bacca
• Scottish: crodh
• Serbian: говедо (govedo )
• Slovak: dobytok
• Slovenian: govedo
• Spanish: bovino m
• Swedish: boskap n, kreatur n, nötdjur n, fä n (obsolete)
• Turkish: sığır /sığırlar
• Ukrainian: корова , худоба (korova, hudoba)
• Upper Sorbian: howjado
• Volapük: kun
• Welsh: gwartheg pl

Related terms

• cattleman
• cattlewoman
• cattle dog
• cattle truck

Related concepts

• calf
• bull
• cow
• steer
• ox