cattle

Etymology
From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , also English ) from , from  (whence also , from  + ). For the sense evolution, compare and. Also compare from. .

Noun

 * 1) Domesticated animals of the species  (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc).
 * Do you want to raise cattle?
 * 1) Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
 * 2)  People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
 * 3)  chattel
 * goods and cattle
 * 1) * 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds [sic] Don't You Get Any Ideas", in and other newsgroups, Usenet:
 * If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
 * Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!
 * 1) * 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds [sic] Don't You Get Any Ideas", in and other newsgroups, Usenet:
 * If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
 * Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!
 * 1) * 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds [sic] Don't You Get Any Ideas", in and other newsgroups, Usenet:
 * If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
 * Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!
 * 1) * 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds [sic] Don't You Get Any Ideas", in and other newsgroups, Usenet:
 * If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
 * Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!

Usage notes
For the animals themselves, "cattle" is normally only used in the plural.
 * A: How many cattle do you have ? B: I have fifteen cattle.

There is no universally accepted singular generic word for "cattle", although the term is used in some regions, and there is the archaic. When a precise formal term is required, constructions such as "domestic bovine" or "domestic bovine animal" can be used. For many people, only sex-specific words such as "bull" and "cow" are used for adults, "calf" for the young, etc., though especially children will use "cow" for all three (as in cowboy). Where the sex is unknown, "cow" is sometimes used (although properly a cow is only an adult female). The phrase "head of cattle" may be used without regard for sex. Chiefly in, this has also given rise to the compound. Occasionally "cattle" may be found in singular use:
 * There are five cows and a calf in that herd of cattle.
 * Is that a cow in the road?
 * One head of cattle 
 * He sold 50 head of cattle last year.
 * First I saw the mandible, which looked a bit like a strange-shaped cattle; then I saw the cervical vertebrae, which looked like a horse ("Intact Ottoman 'war camel' found in Austrian cellar", BBC, 2015 April 02)

Synonyms

 * , Bos, , , , neat,

Translations

 * Aari: waakí
 * Afrikaans:, , ,
 * Albanian:
 * Algonquin: adik
 * Andi: буцӏцӏир
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: maghashi, bágashi
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: مواشي
 * Moroccan Arabic: بهايم, كسيبة
 * Armenian: խոշոր եղջերավոր անասուն,
 * Old Armenian: արջառ
 * Assamese: গৰু
 * Avar: боцӏи
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque: abelgorriak
 * Bau Bidayuh: sapi
 * Belarusian: бу́йная рага́тая жывёла, бы́дла
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: е́дър рога́т доби́тък,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: sapi
 * Central Melanau: sapek
 * Chechen: даьхний
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 家牛
 * Cornish: buhes, gwarthek
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dinka: ɣɔ̈k
 * Drung: nungngua
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: veised
 * Evenki: авду
 * Faroese: neyt
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: Vee
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βόες
 * Gutnish: krik
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Iban: sapi
 * Icelandic: nautgripur
 * Ingrian: siivotta
 * Ingush: бежан, доахан
 * Irish: eallach, beithígh, buar
 * Old Irish: búar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 畜牛
 * Javanese:, lembu
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: сиыр
 * Kimaragang: sapi
 * Korean:
 * Latin: pecu
 * Latvian: liellopi
 * Lithuanian: galvìjai
 * Lü: ᦷᦣ
 * Macedonian: говедо
 * Malay:, , cewe bok
 * Mongolian:
 * Nandi: tany
 * Navajo: béégashii
 * Norman: bestchias, bêtes à cornes
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: storfe, kveg,
 * Nynorsk: storfe, kveg, krøter, krøtter
 * Old Church Slavonic: скотъ
 * Old English: feoh
 * Old Saxon: fehu
 * Oromo: loon
 * Ossetian: фос
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Fee, Rint
 * Polish:, bydło domowe
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: bovine,
 * Romansch: biestga,  muaglia,  muvel,  movel
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Samoan: povi
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: kye
 * Scottish Gaelic: crodh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: говедо
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: govedo
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: skót, gowjedo
 * Upper Sorbian: howjado
 * Sotho: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: okso
 * Tok Pisin: bulmakau
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, , скоти́на, , ,
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük:, bubem
 * Walloon:, grossès biesses, ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Coast Bajau: sapi'
 * West Frisian:
 * Wutunhua: nek
 * Yiddish: רינד
 * Zazaki:


 * Afrikaans: vee, grootvee, kleinvee
 * Arabic: مَوَاشٍ, مَاشِيَة
 * Bashkir: мал
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: პირუტყვი
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κτήνη
 * Hungarian:
 * Javanese:, lembu
 * Latin: pecus, pecuāria
 * Lezgi: мал
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish:
 * Tajik: мол
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎅𐎎𐎚
 * Yagnobi: мол


 * Albanian:
 * Belarusian: рага́тая жывёла, ,бы́дла
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kariloomad
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian: galvìjas
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:, buskap, , , kveg
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: crodh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, , скоти́на
 * Volapük: smalaveter
 * Walloon: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: بهايم
 * Belarusian: бы́дла
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: stut
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Friulian: ,
 * Galician:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Korean:
 * Ladin:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Low German:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Occitan:
 * Sardinian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: