bubalo

See also: búbalo

Esperanto
Du bubaloj banante sin en Laoso

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβᾰλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Compare Spanish búbalo, Italian bufalo, French buffle, German Büffel, Polish bawół, Russian бу́йвол (bújvol), as well as Irish buabhall, Modern Greek βουβάλι (vouváli), Romanian bivol, Latvian bifelis.

Pronunciation
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  • IPA(key): [buˈbalo]
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: bu‧ba‧lo

Noun

bubalo (accusative singular bubalon, plural bubaloj, accusative plural bubalojn)

  1. buffalo (bovine of the genus Bubalus)

Derived terms

Italian

Noun

bubalo m (plural bubali)

  1. hartebeast

Latin

Noun

būbalō

  1. dative/ablative singular of būbalus

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

búbalo n (Cyrillic spelling бу́бало)

  1. bug
  2. beetle
  3. insect
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