moo

See also: Moo, MOO, moʻo, Moʻo, móo, móó, and möö

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

the sound of a cow's moo

(UK) IPA^(key): /muː/
(US) IPA^(key): /mu/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -uː
Homophone: mu

Noun

moo (plural moos)

(onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
(UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.
You silly moo! What did you do that for?
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
  'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'

Derived terms

Translations

characteristic sound made by a cow or bull

Arabic: خُوَار m (ḵuwār)
Aromanian: mudzit n
Bulgarian: мучене (bg) n (mučene)
Catalan: mugit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哞 (zh) (mōu)
Czech: bučení n
Danish: muh (da)
Dutch: boe (nl)
Finnish: ammunta (fi)
French: meuglement (fr) m, beuglement (fr) m
Galician: bruio m, brúo m
German: Muhen n
Greek: μου (el) n (mou), μουκανητό n (moukanitó)
Hawaiian: umō
Icelandic: baul n
Ido: bramo (io)
Irish: géim f
Italian: muggito (it) m
Latin: mugitus
Lithuanian: mūkimas m
Malay: tenguh
Navajo: muu
Norwegian: raut n, mø (no)
Old English: ġehlōw n
Polish: muczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: mugido (pt)
Romanian: muget (ro) n
Russian: мыча́ние (ru) n (myčánije)
Scottish Gaelic: mò
Serbo-Croatian: мукање n, mukanje n
Spanish: mugido (es), mu (es) m
Swedish: mu (sv) n
Tagalog: unga
Turkish: möö

foolish woman

Finnish: lehmä (fi)

Verb

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

(intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

Synonyms

low, boo (rare)

Translations

to make a lowing sound

Arabic: خَارَ m (ḵāra)
Aromanian: mudzescu
Azerbaijani: movuldamaq, böyürmək
Belarusian: му́каць impf (múkacʹ)
Bulgarian: муча (muča)
Catalan: mugir (ca)
Czech: bučet (cs)
Danish: brøle
Dutch: loeien (nl)
Esperanto: muĝi (eo)
Faroese: belja
Finnish: ammua (fi)
French: meugler (fr), beugler (fr), mugir (fr)
Galician: bruar (gl), muar (gl)
German: muhen (de)
Greek: μουγκανίζω (el) (mougkanízo)
Ancient: μυκάομαι (mukáomai), μέμυκα (mémuka)
Hungarian: múzik
Icelandic: baula
Ido: bramar (io)
Ingrian: myykkiä, ammua
Irish: géim
Italian: muggire (it)
Kyrgyz: мөөрөө (mööröö)
Latin: mūgiō
Latvian: maut
Lithuanian: mūkti f, mykti
Marathi: हंबरण (hambraṇ)
Norwegian: raute (no)
Old English: hlōwan
Polish: muczeć (pl)
Portuguese: mugir (pt)
Romanian: mugi (ro)
Russian: мыча́ть (ru) (myčátʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: мукати, mukati (sh)
Slovak: mučať, bučeť
Spanish: mugir (es)
Swedish: råma (sv)
Tagalog: umunga
Turkish: möölemek
Ukrainian: му́кати impf (múkaty)
Yiddish: מוקען (muken)

Interjection

moo

The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

Translations

sound made by a cow or bull

Arabic: مُو (mū)
Asturian: mu (ast)
Catalan: mmm (ca), mu (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哞 (zh) (mōu), 哞哞叫 (mōumōu jiào)
Czech: bú (cs)
Danish: muh (da)
Dutch: boe (nl), moe (nl)
Esperanto: mu (eo)
Faroese: mø
Finnish: muu (fi), ammuu (fi)
French: meuh (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: muh (de)
Greek: μου (el) (mou) (usually with a prolonged ου)
Hebrew: מו (he) m
Hungarian: mú (hu)
Icelandic: mu, mö
Ingrian: muu
Italian: mu
Japanese: モー (mō)
Khmer: ម៉ (km) (mɑɑ)
Korean: 음매 (eummae)
Lithuanian: mū
Marathi: हम्मा (hammā)
Mongolian: хоо (mn) (xoo)
Norwegian: mø (no)
Persian: ما (fa) (mâ)
Polish: mu (pl)
Portuguese: mu (pt)
Romanian: mu (ro)
Russian: му (ru) (mu), му-у-у (mu-u-u)
Serbo-Croatian: му, mu (sh)
Spanish: mu (es)
Swedish: mu (sv)
Thai: มอ (th) (mɔɔ)
Turkish: mö

Anagrams

OOM, omo-, oom

Arabela

Noun

moo

river

Galician

Verb

moo

(reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer

Japanese

Romanization

moo

Rōmaji transcription of もお

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.

Adjective

moo

comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)

Murui Huitoto

moo
Root	Classifier
moo-	—

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː]
Hyphenation: moo

Noun

moo

Synonym of mooma
- 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:2, page 5:
  Judá mɨcorɨ amatɨaɨ mɨcorɨaɨ moo jɨaɨ Jacob mɨcorɨ.
  The late Juda's late brothers' father was also the late Jacob.
vocative of mooma

Declension

Declension of moo

	singular	plural	kinship plural
Absolutive	moo	—	mootɨaɨ
Nominative	moodɨ	—	mootɨaɨdɨ
Accusative	moona	—	mootɨaɨna
Dative/Locative	moomo	—	mootɨaɨmo
Ablative	moomona	—	mootɨaɨmona
Instrumental	moodo	—	mootɨaɨdo
Causal	moori	—	mootɨaɨri
Privative	moonino	—	mootɨaɨnino

Root

moo

father

Derived terms

mooma

References

Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.o/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo(w).u/

Hyphenation: mo‧o

Verb

moo

first-person singular present indicative of moer

Sotho

Adverb

moo

there; distal demonstrative adverb.

Swahili

Noun

moo (needs class)

leg; foot
Synonym: mguu

Ulch

Noun

moo

tree, wood

References

Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.