An ox is captured by the horns, a person is bound by his word.
Source: tatoeba (19501)
Ox
//ˈɑks//
Synonyms for "ox" (110 found)
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Translations
235 translations across 138 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- bees noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- os noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- os noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Akan
1 entries- nandwie (Abron) noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒄞 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Albanian
1 entries- ka noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Amharic
1 entries- በሬ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Arabic
1 entries- ثَوْر noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Armenian
2 entries- եզ noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- եզ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Aromanian
1 entries- bou noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Asturian
2 entries- güe noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- güe noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Avar
1 entries- оц noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- öküz noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- öküz noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Bashkir
1 entries- үгеҙ noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Basque
2 entries- idi noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- idi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Belarusian
3 entries- бык noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- вол noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- вол noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вол noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- вол noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- boi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- віл noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Catalan
2 entries- bou noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bou noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Chechen
1 entries- сту noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎦᏓᎵ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 公牛 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- 牛 noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- 犉 noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- öküz noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Czech
2 entries- vůl noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- vůl noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Dalmatian
1 entries- bu noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Danish
1 entries- okse noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Dutch
2 entries- os noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- os noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Egyptian
2 entries- i-H-E1 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- n:g-A-w-E1 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Eshtehardi
1 entries- گو noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Esperanto
1 entries- okso noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Estonian
2 entries- härg noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- härg noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Ewe
1 entries- nyi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Faroese
1 entries- oksi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Finnish
3 entries- härkä noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- härkä noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- nauta noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
French
2 entries- bœuf noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bœuf noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Friulian
2 entries- bo noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- nemâl noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Gagauz
1 entries- öküz noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Galician
2 entries- boi noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- boi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Ge'ez
1 entries- ሶር noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
German
4 entries- Ochs noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- Ochse noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- Rind noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- Zugrind noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Greek
2 entries- βόδι noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- βόδι noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Haitian Creole
2 entries- bèf noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bèf noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Hebrew
2 entries- שׁוֹר noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- שׁוֹר noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Hindi
2 entries- बैल noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- बैल noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Hungarian
2 entries- ökör noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- ökör noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Icelandic
2 entries- uxi noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- uxi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Indonesian
2 entries- lembu noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- lembu noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Ingrian
2 entries- hällö noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- härkä noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- بَرْزَگاو noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- وَرْزا noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- گاو noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Irish
1 entries- damh noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Italian
3 entries- bove noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- bue noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bue noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Japanese
1 entries- 去勢雄牛 noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Javanese
1 entries- sapi noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Kaingang
1 entries- monh noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Karachay-Balkar
1 entries- ёгюз noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Kazakh
2 entries- өгіз noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- өгіз noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- өгүз noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Ladin
1 entries- bo noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Latgalian
1 entries- vierss noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Latin
3 entries- armentum noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- bōs noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bōs noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Latvian
2 entries- vērsis noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- vērsis noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Lithuanian
2 entries- jautis noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- jautis noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Livonian
2 entries- ǟrga noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- ǟrga noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Lombard
2 entries- bö noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bœu noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Low German
1 entries- Oss noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- woł noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- woł noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Ochs noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- Uess noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Lü
1 entries- ᦷᦣ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Macedonian
1 entries- вол noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Maltese
1 entries- gendus noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Marathi
1 entries- बैल noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Middle English
2 entries- oxe noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- oxe noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Mon
1 entries- ဂၠဴကၟက် noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Mongolian
3 entries- шар noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- шар үхэр noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- үхэр noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Mòcheno
2 entries- ocks noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- ocks noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- mfulwa mɓe noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
North Frisian
2 entries- Aus noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- oxse noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- ga noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- okse noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- okse noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- okse noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- okse noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Nuosu
1 entries- ꇌ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Occitan
2 entries- buòu noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- buòu noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Old Armenian
2 entries- եզն noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- եզն noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- волъ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- волъ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Old Javanese
1 entries- lĕmbu noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Old Norse
2 entries- oxi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- uxi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Old Turkic
2 entries- 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Oromo
1 entries- sangaa noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- اوكوز noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- اۊكۏز noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- صیغير noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Pali
1 entries- goṇa noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- вол noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Piedmontese
1 entries- beu noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Polish
2 entries- wół noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- wół noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Portuguese
2 entries- boi noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- boi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Romagnol
1 entries- bo noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Romani
1 entries- guruv noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Romanian
2 entries- bou noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- bou noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Romansch
1 entries- bov noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Russian
3 entries- бык noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- вол noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- вол noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Sardinian
1 entries- boe noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- damh noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bȉk noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- vȏ noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- vȏ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- vȏl noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Sherpa
1 entries- གླང noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Sicilian
3 entries- jencu noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- voi noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- voi noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Sidamo
1 entries- hando noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Sikkimese
1 entries- གླང noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Slovak
2 entries- vôl noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- vôl noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Slovene
2 entries- vol noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- vol noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Southern Altai
2 entries- бука noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- ӧкӱс noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Spanish
4 entries- buey noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- buey noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- novillo noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- toro noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒄞 noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Swahili
1 entries- ngʼombe noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Swedish
2 entries- oxe noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- oxe noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tagalog
1 entries- kapong baka noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tajik
1 entries- барзагов noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tamil
1 entries- காளை noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Taos
2 entries- mùoyaʼána noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- tùluʼúna noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tarifit
1 entries- afunas noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Telugu
1 entries- ఎద్దు noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Thai
2 entries- วัว noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- โค noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tibetan
2 entries- གླང noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- གླང noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tigrinya
2 entries- ብዕራይ noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- ብዕራይ noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- bulmakau noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Turkish
2 entries- öküz noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- öküz noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Turkmen
1 entries- öküz noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Udi
1 entries- ус noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Ukrainian
3 entries- бик noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- віл noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- віл noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- woł noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- woł noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Urdu
2 entries- بَیل noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- بَیل noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Uzbek
3 entries- bizon noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- buyvol noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- hoʻkiz noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bò noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
- bò đực thiến noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Volapük
1 entries- hobub noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Võro
1 entries- härg noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Walloon
1 entries- boû noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
Welsh
2 entries- ych noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- ych noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Yiddish
2 entries- אָקס noun (an adult castrated male of cattle)
- אָקס noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Zazaki
1 entries- ga (diq) noun (any bovine animal used as a beast of burden)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He who steals a pin will steal an ox.
Source: tatoeba (27757)
A buffalo is akin to an ox.
Source: tatoeba (270892)
Why don't we take a ride round the island on this ox carriage?
Source: tatoeba (326974)
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