The cow cast her calf.
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Calf
//kɑːf//
Synonyms for "calf" (168 found)
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Translations
443 translations across 183 languages.
Afar
1 entries- ruga noun (young cow or bull)
Afrikaans
3 entries- kalf noun (young cow or bull)
- kuit noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- kuitspier noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒀫 noun (young cow or bull)
Albanian
3 entries- pulpë noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- viç noun (young cow or bull)
- viç noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Ancient Greek
2 entries- γᾰστροκνημῐ́ᾱ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- μόσχος noun (young cow or bull)
Arabic
4 entries- بَطَّة noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- بَطْن اَلسَّاق noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- حُوَار noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- دَغْفَل noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Aragonese
2 entries- vediello noun (young cow or bull)
- vetiello noun (young cow or bull)
Aramaic
2 entries- ܐܰܪܘܳܢܳܐ noun (young cow or bull)
- ܥܶܓܠܳܐ noun (young cow or bull)
Armenian
4 entries- հորթ noun (young cow or bull)
- ձագ noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- սրնքաձուկ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- սրնքամիս noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Aromanian
2 entries- pulpã noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- yitsãl noun (young cow or bull)
Asturian
2 entries- xata noun (young cow or bull)
- xatu noun (young cow or bull)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- baldır noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- buzov noun (young cow or bull)
- dana noun (young cow or bull)
Bangi
1 entries- mompende noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Bashkir
1 entries- быҙау noun (young cow or bull)
Basque
1 entries- zekor noun (young cow or bull)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- tigieng noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Belarusian
4 entries- лы́тка noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- цяля́ noun (young cow or bull)
- цялё noun (young cow or bull)
- ікра́ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- बछड़ा noun (young cow or bull)
Breton
1 entries- leue noun (young cow or bull)
Bulgarian
4 entries- еленче noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- китче noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- прасец noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- прасец noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Burmese
2 entries- နွားကလေး noun (young cow or bull)
- သလုံး noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- теля́ noun (young cow or bull)
Catalan
3 entries- panxell noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- vedell noun (young cow or bull)
- vedella noun (young cow or bull)
Cebuano
1 entries- nati noun (young cow or bull)
Central Dusun
1 entries- tananak noun (young cow or bull)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- گوێرەکە noun (young cow or bull)
- گوێلِک noun (young cow or bull)
Central Melanau
1 entries- jeloh noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Chechen
2 entries- эса noun (young cow or bull)
- эса noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏩᎧᎠᎩᎾ noun (young cow or bull)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 牛仔 noun (young cow or bull)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 仔 noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- 小牛 noun (young cow or bull)
- 牛犢 /牛犊 noun (young cow or bull)
- 犢 /犊 noun (young cow or bull)
Chuvash
1 entries- пӑру noun (young cow or bull)
Cimbrian
1 entries- büssalle noun (young cow or bull)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲙⲁⲥⲉ noun (young cow or bull)
Cornish
3 entries- berr noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- leugh noun (young cow or bull)
- leugh noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Corsican
1 entries- zancaru noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Czech
2 entries- lýtko noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- tele noun (young cow or bull)
Danish
4 entries- kalv noun (young cow or bull)
- kalv noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- kalv noun (chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg)
- kalv noun (small island beside another one)
Dutch
4 entries- jong noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- kalf noun (young cow or bull)
- kalf noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- kuit noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 牛囝 noun (young cow or bull)
Egyptian
3 entries- bH:z-E9 noun (young cow or bull)
- ms-s-E3 noun (young cow or bull)
- r:n-i-i-E1 noun (young cow or bull)
Eshtehardi
2 entries- جینگَ noun (young cow or bull)
- دوگیَه noun (young cow or bull)
Esperanto
4 entries- bovidino noun (young cow or bull)
- bovido noun (young cow or bull)
- suro noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- virbovido noun (young cow or bull)
Estonian
1 entries- vasikas noun (young cow or bull)
Faroese
2 entries- kálvi noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- kálvur noun (young cow or bull)
Finnish
4 entries- pohje noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- pohje noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- poikanen noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- vasikka noun (young cow or bull)
French
4 entries- baleineau noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- baleinelle noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- baleinon noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- blanchon noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Friulian
1 entries- vidiel noun (young cow or bull)
Galician
4 entries- barriga da perna noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- becerro noun (young cow or bull)
- camoniño noun (young cow or bull)
- cucho noun (young cow or bull)
Georgian
2 entries- კანჭი noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- ხბო noun (young cow or bull)
German
4 entries- Bullenkalb noun (young cow or bull)
- Chalp noun (young cow or bull)
- Kalb noun (young cow or bull)
- Kalb noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Gorontalo
1 entries- butiyoto noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Greek
2 entries- γάμπα noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- μοσχάρι noun (young cow or bull)
Hebrew
3 entries- עֵגֶל noun (young cow or bull)
- עגל noun (young cow or bull)
- שׁוֹק noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Hindi
2 entries- बछड़ा noun (young cow or bull)
- बछिया noun (young cow or bull)
Hungarian
4 entries- borjú noun (young cow or bull)
- borjú noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- jégtömb noun (chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg)
- kölyök noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Icelandic
2 entries- kálfi noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- kálfur noun (young cow or bull)
Ido
3 entries- bovyunino noun (young cow or bull)
- bovyuno noun (young cow or bull)
- bovyunulo noun (young cow or bull)
Indonesian
1 entries- betis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Ingrian
4 entries- kimput noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- lehmävasikka noun (young cow or bull)
- muko noun (young cow or bull)
- pohkiat noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Ingush
1 entries- ӏаса noun (young cow or bull)
Iranun
1 entries- lisen noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Irish
2 entries- gamhain noun (young cow or bull)
- lao noun (young cow or bull)
Isnag
1 entries- kixaw noun (young cow or bull)
Italian
3 entries- polpaccio noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- polpaccio noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- vitello noun (young cow or bull)
Japanese
2 entries- 子牛 noun (young cow or bull)
- 脹脛 noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Javanese
2 entries- kémpol noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- wentis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Jeju
2 entries- 송애기 noun (young cow or bull)
- 종애 noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Kannada
2 entries- ಕರು noun (young cow or bull)
- ಮರಿ noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Kapampangan
1 entries- butit noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Kashmiri
2 entries- وَژھٕر noun (young cow or bull)
- وۆژھ noun (young cow or bull)
Kaurna
2 entries- yarla noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- yarla-muka noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Kazakh
2 entries- балтыр noun (young cow or bull)
- бұзау noun (young cow or bull)
Khmer
4 entries- កូនគោ noun (young cow or bull)
- កំភួនជើង noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- ត្រយូងចេក noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- សាច់ដុំកំភួនជើង noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Kimaragang
1 entries- votis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Korean
2 entries- 송아지 noun (young cow or bull)
- 종아리 noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- музоо noun (young cow or bull)
Laki
1 entries- گوەر noun (young cow or bull)
Lao
1 entries- ນ່ອງ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Latgalian
1 entries- teļš noun (young cow or bull)
Latin
4 entries- sūra noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- vitella noun (young cow or bull)
- vitellus noun (young cow or bull)
- vitula noun (young cow or bull)
Latvian
2 entries- telēns noun (young cow or bull)
- teļš noun (young cow or bull)
Ligurian
2 entries- vitélla noun (young cow or bull)
- vitéllo noun (young cow or bull)
Lingala
1 entries- mopende noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Lithuanian
1 entries- veršiukas noun (young cow or bull)
Lotud
1 entries- tonok noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Low German
1 entries- Kalf noun (young cow or bull)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- brjuško noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- śele noun (young cow or bull)
Luhya
1 entries- emosi noun (young cow or bull)
Luo
1 entries- nyaroya noun (young cow or bull)
Lutuv
1 entries- camaa noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Kallef noun (young cow or bull)
- Wued noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Macedonian
2 entries- лист noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- теле noun (young cow or bull)
Malagasy
1 entries- zanak'omby noun (young cow or bull)
Malay
2 entries- anak lembu noun (young cow or bull)
- betis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Maltese
3 entries- erħa noun (young cow or bull)
- għoġol noun (young cow or bull)
- pexxun noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Manx
1 entries- lheiy noun (young cow or bull)
Marathi
1 entries- पोटरी noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Megleno-Romanian
1 entries- vițǫl noun (young cow or bull)
Mon
1 entries- ကောန်ဂၠဴ noun (young cow or bull)
Mongolian
3 entries- тугал noun (young cow or bull)
- тугал noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- хөлийн булчин noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Māori
4 entries- kāwhe noun (young cow or bull)
- miha noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- takapū noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- takapū noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Nandi
1 entries- moi noun (young cow or bull)
Navajo
1 entries- achʼozh noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Nepali
3 entries- पिडौला noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- बाच्छी noun (young cow or bull)
- बाच्छो noun (young cow or bull)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- mna-mɓe noun (young cow or bull)
Norman
1 entries- vieau noun (young cow or bull)
North Frisian
2 entries- kualew noun (young cow or bull)
- kuulew noun (young cow or bull)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- golik noun (young cow or bull)
- çîp noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Northern Sami
1 entries- gálbi noun (young cow or bull)
Norwegian
1 entries- legg noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- kalv noun (young cow or bull)
- kalv noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- kalv noun (chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg)
- kalv noun (small island beside another one)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- kalv noun (young cow or bull)
- kalv noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- kalv noun (chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg)
- kalv noun (small island beside another one)
O'odham
1 entries- wisilo noun (young cow or bull)
Occitan
4 entries- botelh noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- pompilh noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- vedèl noun (young cow or bull)
- vedèla noun (young cow or bull)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- тельць noun (young cow or bull)
Old English
2 entries- spearlira noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- ċealf noun (young cow or bull)
Old Irish
2 entries- dartaid noun (young cow or bull)
- lóeg noun (young cow or bull)
Old Javanese
1 entries- wĕtis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 noun (young cow or bull)
Oromo
2 entries- jaabi noun (young cow or bull)
- sarbaa noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- بالدر noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- بوزاغو noun (young cow or bull)
- بوزاغو noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- كوشك noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Pali
1 entries- vaccha noun (young cow or bull)
Pashto
1 entries- سخی noun (young cow or bull)
Persian
2 entries- پشت ساق noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- گوساله noun (young cow or bull)
Piedmontese
1 entries- vailet noun (young cow or bull)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Kaulf noun (young cow or bull)
- Wod noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Polish
2 entries- cielę noun (young cow or bull)
- łydka noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Portuguese
4 entries- bezerra noun (young cow or bull)
- bezerro noun (young cow or bull)
- cria noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- filhote noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Romanian
4 entries- gambă noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- pui noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- pulpă noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- pulpă noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Romansch
1 entries- vadè noun (young cow or bull)
Rungus
1 entries- votis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Russian
4 entries- икра́ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- икра́ noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- китёнок noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- слонёнок noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Sabah Bisaya
1 entries- tonok noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Saho
1 entries- ruga noun (young cow or bull)
Sanskrit
2 entries- गोवत्स noun (young cow or bull)
- वत्स noun (young cow or bull)
Scots
1 entries- cauf noun (young cow or bull)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- calpa noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- calpa noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- laogh noun (young cow or bull)
Sebop
1 entries- bete noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- list noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- tele noun (young cow or bull)
- лист noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- теле noun (young cow or bull)
Seri
1 entries- noiiyo noun (young cow or bull)
Shan
1 entries- ၶႃ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Sicilian
4 entries- jencu noun (young cow or bull)
- jencu noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- parpagnu noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- viteḍḍu noun (young cow or bull)
Slovak
2 entries- lýtko noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- teľa noun (young cow or bull)
Slovene
2 entries- meča noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- tele noun (young cow or bull)
Somali
1 entries- weyl noun (young cow or bull)
Southern Altai
1 entries- бозу noun (young cow or bull)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- گوور noun (young cow or bull)
Spanish
4 entries- alevín noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- ballenata noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- ballenato noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- becerra noun (young cow or bull)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒀫 noun (young cow or bull)
Swahili
4 entries- ndama noun (young cow or bull)
- ndama noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- ndama noun (chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg)
- ndama noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Swedish
4 entries- kalv noun (young cow or bull)
- kalv noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- vad noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- vadmuskel noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Tagal Murut
1 entries- batis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Tagalog
2 entries- binti noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- guya noun (young cow or bull)
Tambunan Dusun
1 entries- bodtung noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Tamil
4 entries- கன்று noun (young cow or bull)
- கன்று noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
- கன்றுக்குட்டி noun (young cow or bull)
- கால் noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Tarifit
1 entries- ayenduz noun (young cow or bull)
Tetum
2 entries- ain-kabun noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- fitis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Thai
2 entries- น่อง noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- น่อง noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
Timugon Murut
1 entries- gakor noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- pikinini bulmakau noun (young cow or bull)
Tswana
1 entries- namane noun (young cow or bull)
Turkish
4 entries- baldır noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- baldır noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- buzağı noun (young cow or bull)
- dana noun (young cow or bull)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎓𐎂𐎍 noun (young cow or bull)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ли́тка noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- ли́тка noun (muscle in the back of the leg below the knee)
- теля́ noun (young cow or bull)
- теля́ noun (young deer, elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals))
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- ćelo noun (young cow or bull)
Urdu
1 entries- بچھیا noun (young cow or bull)
Uyghur
3 entries- تايىنچا noun (young cow or bull)
- توپاق noun (young cow or bull)
- موزاي noun (young cow or bull)
Uzbek
1 entries- boldir noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Venetan
3 entries- vedeło noun (young cow or bull)
- vedèl noun (young cow or bull)
- vedèƚo noun (young cow or bull)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bê noun (young cow or bull)
- bắp chân noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- bắp vế noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Volapük
3 entries- bubül noun (young cow or bull)
- sugabubül (unweaned) noun (young cow or bull)
- surad noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Welsh
2 entries- croth y goes noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- llo noun (young cow or bull)
West Coast Bajau
2 entries- bangkur noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- betis noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
West Flemish
1 entries- kyte noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
West-Frisian
2 entries- keal noun (young cow or bull)
- kût noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Wolof
1 entries- séll wi noun (young cow or bull)
Xhosa
1 entries- isiquluba noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Yiddish
1 entries- קאַלב noun (young cow or bull)
Yoruba
3 entries- iṣu ẹsẹ̀ noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
- ẹgbọ̀rọ̀ noun (young cow or bull)
- ọmọ mààlúù noun (young cow or bull)
Zazaki
3 entries- gol (diq) noun (young cow or bull)
- nal noun (young cow or bull)
- saqe noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
Zhuang
1 entries- hengh noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
ǃXóõ
1 entries- gǁxáʻn noun (anatomy: back of the leg below the knee)
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The cow gave birth to a calf with two heads.
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Tom branded the calf.
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Under the thigh is the knee; under this one is the calf; under the latter is the foot.
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