And thus the lion fell in love with the ewe.
Source: tatoeba (980053)
Ewe
//juː//
Synonyms for "ewe" (46 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
6 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
133 translations across 84 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skaapooi noun (female sheep)
Akan
1 entries- Ayigbe name (language)
Albanian
2 entries- dele noun (female sheep)
- delme noun (female sheep)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀμνάς noun (female sheep)
Arabic
2 entries- نعجة noun (female sheep)
- نَعْجَة noun (female sheep)
Armenian
1 entries- մաքի noun (female sheep)
Aromanian
1 entries- oai (roa-rup) noun (female sheep)
Asturian
1 entries- oveya noun (female sheep)
Belarusian
2 entries- эве name (language)
- аве́чка noun (female sheep)
Breton
1 entries- dañvadez noun (female sheep)
Bulgarian
1 entries- овца́ noun (female sheep)
Burmese
1 entries- သိုးမ noun (female sheep)
Catalan
1 entries- ovella noun (female sheep)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- مەڕ noun (female sheep)
Chechen
1 entries- жий noun (female sheep)
Chinese
1 entries- муён noun (female sheep)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 埃維人的 /埃维人的 adj (pertaining to the Ewe people or language)
- 埃維語的 /埃维语的 adj (pertaining to the Ewe people or language)
- 埃維語 /埃维语 name (language)
- 埃維人 /埃维人 noun (ethnic group)
Church Slavic
2 entries- овьца noun (female sheep)
- ⱁⰲⱐⱌⰰ noun (female sheep)
Cornish
1 entries- davas noun (female sheep)
Czech
1 entries- ovce noun (female sheep)
Danish
2 entries- hunfår noun (female sheep)
- moderfår noun (female sheep)
Dutch
4 entries- Ewe adj (pertaining to the Ewe people or language)
- Ewe name (language)
- Ewe noun (ethnic group)
- ooi noun (female sheep)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝafino noun (female sheep)
Ewe
4 entries- Eʋe name (language)
- Eʋegbe name (language)
- Eʋeawo noun (ethnic group)
- Eʋegbetɔwo noun (ethnic group)
Faroese
1 entries- ær noun (female sheep)
Finnish
4 entries- ewe adj (pertaining to the Ewe people or language)
- ewenkielinen adj (pertaining to the Ewe people or language)
- ewe name (language)
- ewet noun (ethnic group)
French
1 entries- brebis noun (female sheep)
Galician
1 entries- ovella noun (female sheep)
Georgian
1 entries- ცხვარი noun (female sheep)
German
4 entries- Au noun (female sheep)
- Aue noun (female sheep)
- Mutterschaf noun (female sheep)
- Schaf noun (female sheep)
Greek
3 entries- αμνάδα noun (female sheep)
- αρνάδα noun (female sheep)
- προβατίνα noun (female sheep)
Greenlandic
1 entries- sava piaqqiortoq noun (female sheep)
Hebrew
1 entries- רחל \ רָחֵל noun (female sheep)
Hindi
1 entries- भेड़ noun (female sheep)
Hungarian
1 entries- anyajuh noun (female sheep)
Icelandic
1 entries- ær noun (female sheep)
Ingrian
1 entries- uto noun (female sheep)
Irish
4 entries- Éabhais name (language)
- athchaora noun (female sheep)
- athfhóisc noun (female sheep)
- caora noun (female sheep)
Italian
1 entries- pecora noun (female sheep)
Japanese
4 entries- エウェ語 name (language)
- エウェ人 noun (ethnic group)
- 牝羊 noun (female sheep)
- 雌羊 noun (female sheep)
Kashmiri
1 entries- گٔب noun (female sheep)
Korean
1 entries- 암양 noun (female sheep)
Ladino
1 entries- oveja noun (female sheep)
Latin
1 entries- ovis noun (female sheep)
Latvian
1 entries- avs noun (female sheep)
Low German
1 entries- Au noun (female sheep)
Macedonian
2 entries- еве name (language)
- овца noun (female sheep)
Māori
2 entries- kātua hipi noun (female sheep)
- uwha hipi noun (female sheep)
Navajo
1 entries- dibétsaʼii noun (female sheep)
Norman
1 entries- brébis noun (female sheep)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- mî noun (female sheep)
- mîh noun (female sheep)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- søye noun (female sheep)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- søye noun (female sheep)
Nǀuu
1 entries- gǂaru noun (female sheep)
Old English
1 entries- eowu noun (female sheep)
Old Spanish
1 entries- oueja noun (female sheep)
Persian
1 entries- میش noun (female sheep)
Polish
1 entries- owca noun (female sheep)
Portuguese
1 entries- ovelha noun (female sheep)
Romani
1 entries- bakri noun (female sheep)
Romanian
2 entries- oaie noun (female sheep)
- oiță noun (female sheep)
Russian
3 entries- эве name (language)
- овца́ noun (female sheep)
- я́рка noun (female sheep)
Scots
1 entries- yowe noun (female sheep)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- óvca noun (female sheep)
- о́вца noun (female sheep)
Slovak
1 entries- ovca noun (female sheep)
Slovene
1 entries- ovca noun (female sheep)
Somali
1 entries- lax noun (female sheep)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- میە noun (female sheep)
Spanish
2 entries- oveja noun (female sheep)
- oveja madre noun (female sheep)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒁱 noun (female sheep)
Swedish
2 entries- ewe name (language)
- tacka noun (female sheep)
Tajik
1 entries- эве name (language)
Tarifit
1 entries- tixsi noun (female sheep)
Telugu
2 entries- ఆడగొర్రె noun (female sheep)
- మేషి noun (female sheep)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ሽበን noun (female sheep)
Tocharian B
1 entries- awi noun (female sheep)
Turkish
1 entries- anaç koyun noun (female sheep)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎘𐎀𐎚 noun (female sheep)
Ukrainian
2 entries- еве name (language)
- вівця́ noun (female sheep)
Uzbek
1 entries- sovliq noun (female sheep)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cừu cái noun (female sheep)
Volapük
1 entries- jijip noun (female sheep)
Wolof
1 entries- xar mu jigéen noun (female sheep)
Zazaki
2 entries- misna noun (female sheep)
- miy noun (female sheep)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
I am shearing the ewe.
Source: tatoeba (1665950)
She sheared a ewe.
Source: tatoeba (2880492)
Remember, shepherdess, that an ewe suckled you with her milk, and yet you are none the less fair.
Source: tatoeba (6212445)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
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