gaur

See also: Gaur and gå ur

English

A gaur.

Alternative forms

• gour (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi गौर (gaur), from Sanskrit गौर (gaura). Attested in English since the early 19th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʊ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʊ.əɹ/

Noun

gaur (plural gaurs or gaur)

1. An Asian species of wild bovine (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition.
   • 1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison‎^[1]:

     […] I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all. His only rivals for the kingship are the Indian bison, or gaur (Bos gaurus), of Southern India, and the aurochs, or European bison, both of which really surpass him in height, if not in actual balk also.

   • 1914, Edward Hamilton Aitken, Concerning Animals and Other Matters‎^[2]:

     Of the other ruminants the ox, buffalo, yak, goat, sheep and a few others are domestic animals, while the bison and the gaur, or so-called Indian bison, and a large number of wild goats and sheep have been neglected.

Synonyms

• (Bos gaurus): Bos frontalis gaurus (Indian bison)

Translations

Bos gaurus

• Apatani: sübo
• Arabic: غَوْر (ḡawr)
• Assamese: মেঠোন (methün), বন-গৰু (bon-goru)
• Burmese: ပြောင် (my) (praung)
• Catalan: gaur (ca) m
• Chinese: 印度野牛
• Czech: gaur m
• Esperanto: gaŭro
• Estonian: gaur (et)
• Finnish: gauri (fi)
• French: gaur (fr) m
• German: Gaur (de) m
• Hindi: गौर (hi) m (gaur)
• Irish: gár m
• Italian: gaur (it) m
• Japanese: ガウル (gauru)
• Lao: ກະທິງ (ka thing)
• Polish: gaur indyjski m
• Portuguese: gauro (pt) m, bisão-indiano m
• Romanian: gaur (ro) m
• Russian: гaур m (gaur)
• Sanskrit: गौर (sa) m (gaura)
• Spanish: gaur (es)
• Thai: กระทิง (th) (grà-ting)
• Vietnamese: bò tót

References

• “gaur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “gaur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

• gaur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bos gaurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bos gaurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Bos gaurus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Anagrams

• Guar., Gura, Urga, guar, ragu, ragù, ruga

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡau̯r/ [ɡau̯r]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -au̯r
• Hyphenation: gaur

Adverb

gaur (not comparable)

1. today

Derived terms

• gaur egun

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

gaur m (plural gaurs)

1. gaur

Further reading

• “gaur”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gaur” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi गौर (gaur).

Noun

gaur m anim

1. gaur, wild cattle

Declension

Declension of gaur (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	gaur	gauři
genitive	gaura	gaurů
dative	gaurovi, gauru	gaurům
accusative	gaura	gaury
vocative	gaure	gauři
locative	gaurovi, gauru	gaurech
instrumental	gaurem	gaury

Further reading

• “gaur”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

gaur m (plural gaurs)

1. gaur

Further reading

• “gaur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Icelandic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /køyːr/

  Rhymes: -øyːr

Noun

gaur m (genitive singular gaurs, nominative plural gaurar)

1. (dated) pole
2. (dated) a gangly youth/man
3. a loud, unruly boy
4. (slang) fellow, guy, dude

Declension

Declension of gaur (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gaur	gaurinn	gaurar	gaurarnir
accusative	gaur	gaurinn	gaura	gaurana
dative	gaur	gaurnum	gaurum	gaurunum
genitive	gaurs	gaursins	gaura	gauranna

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gaur.

Noun

gaur m (plural gauri)

1. gaur

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gaur	gaurul		gauri	gaurii
genitive-dative	gaur	gaurului		gauri	gaurilor
vocative	gaurule			gaurilor

Spanish

Noun

gaur m (plural gaurs)

1. gaur