ox

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ox"

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑks/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒks/
Rhymes: -ɒks
Audio (Canada): (file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.

Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उक्षन् (ukṣán).

Noun

ox (plural oxen or (nonstandard) oxes)

An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
- 1934, commentary on the Qur'an (Sura 39 verse 6) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali:
  Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.

Synonyms

(castrated male of cattle): bullock, steer

Derived terms

Related terms

aurochs (from *ūrô (“aurochs”) + *uhsô (“ox”))

Descendants

→ Abenaki: aksen (via "oxen")
→ Malecite-Passamaquoddy: akson (via "oxen")
→ Unami: aksën (via "oxen")

Translations

an adult castrated male of cattle

Afrikaans: os (af)
Akkadian: 𒄞 m (GUD /⁠alpu⁠/)
Armenian: եզ (hy) (ez)
Old Armenian: եզն (ezn)
Asturian: güe (ast)
Avar: оц (oc)
Azerbaijani: öküz (az)
Bashkir: үгеҙ (ügeź)
Basque: idi (eu)
Belarusian: вол m (vol)
Bulgarian: вол (bg) m (vol)
Carpathian Rusyn: віл (vil)
Catalan: bou (ca) m
Chechen: сту (stu)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公牛 (zh) (gōngniú)
Crimean Tatar: öküz
Czech: vůl (cs) m
Dutch: os (nl) m
Egyptian:

(ngꜣw),

(jḥ)
Estonian: härg (et) sg
Finnish: härkä (fi)
French: bœuf (fr) m
Gagauz: öküz
Galician: boi (gl) m
Ge'ez: ሶር (sor)
German: Ochse (de) m
Alemannic German: Ochs m
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 m (auhsa)
Greek: βόδι (el) n (vódi)
Hebrew: שׁוֹר (he) m (šor)
Hindi: बैल (hi) m (bail)
Hungarian: ökör (hu)
Icelandic: uxi (is)
Indonesian: lembu (id)
Ingrian: härkä, hällö
Italian: bue (it) m
Javanese: sapi (jv)
Kaingang: monh
Kazakh: өгіз (ögız)
Kyrgyz: өгүз (ky) (ögüz)
Ladin: bo m
Latin: bōs (la) m
Latvian: vērsis (lv) m
Lithuanian: jautis (lt)
Livonian: ǟrga
Lombard: bö, bœu
Maltese: gendus m
Marathi: बैल m (bail)
Middle English: oxe
Mòcheno: ocks m
Mon: ဂၠဴကၟက်
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шар (mn) (šar), шар үхэр (šar üxer)
Ngazidja Comorian: mfulwa mɓe
North Frisian: Aus (Sylt)
Occitan: buòu (oc) m
Old Javanese: lĕmbu
Old Turkic: 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (üküz /⁠öküz⁠/)
Oromo: sangaa
Ottoman Turkish: اوكوز (öküz), صیغير (sığır)
Pali: goṇa
Pannonian Rusyn: вол m (vol)
Piedmontese: beu m
Polish: wół (pl) m animal
Portuguese: boi (pt) m
Romagnol: bo m
Romani: guruv m
Romanian: bou (ro)
Russian: вол (ru) m (vol)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̑л m, во̑ m

Roman: vȏl (sh) m, vȏ (sh) m
Sherpa: གླང (glang)
Sicilian: voi (scn) m
Sidamo: hando
Slovak: vôl (sk) m
Slovene: vol (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: woł m

Upper Sorbian: woł m
Spanish: buey (es) m
Sumerian: 𒄞 (GUD)
Swedish: oxe (sv) c
Tarifit: afunas m
Tibetan: གླང (glang)
Tigrinya: ብዕራይ (ti) (bəʿray)
Turkish: öküz (tr)
Turkmen: öküz
Udi: ус (us)
Ukrainian: віл (uk) (vil)
Urdu: بَیل m (bail)
Uzbek: hoʻkiz (uz)
Vietnamese: bò đực thiến
Welsh: ych (cy) m
Yiddish: אָקס m (oks)

any bovine animal used as a beast of burden

Abron: nandwie
Afrikaans: os (af), bees (af)
Albanian: ka (sq)
Amharic: በሬ (bäre)
Arabic: ثَوْر (ar) m (ṯawr)
Armenian: եզ (hy) (ez)
Old Armenian: եզն (ezn)
Aromanian: bou m
Asturian: güe (ast) m
Azerbaijani: öküz (az) m
Basque: idi (eu) m
Belarusian: вол m (vol), бык m (byk) (bull)
Bulgarian: вол (bg) m (vol)
Catalan: bou (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎦᏓᎵ (gadali)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 犉 (zh) (rún), 牛 (zh) (niú) (bull or cow)
Czech: vůl (cs) m
Dalmatian: bu m
Danish: okse (da) c
Dutch: os (nl) m
Eshtehardi: گو m (geow)
Esperanto: okso
Estonian: härg (et)
Ewe: nyi
Faroese: oksi m
Finnish: härkä (fi), nauta (fi)
French: bœuf (fr) m
Friulian: bo m, nemâl m
Galician: boi (gl) m
German: Rind (de) m; Zugrind n; Zugtier (de) n
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 m (auhsa)
Greek: βόδι (el) n (vódi)
Hebrew: שׁוֹר (he) m (šor)
Hindi: बैल (hi) m (bail)
Hungarian: ökör (hu)
Icelandic: uxi (is)
Indonesian: lembu (id)
Irish: damh (ga) m
Italian: bue (it) m, bove (it)
Japanese: 去勢雄牛 (きょせいおうし, kyosei ōshi)
Karachay-Balkar: ёгюз (ögüz)
Kazakh: өгіз (ögız)
Khmer: ^{(please verify)} គោ ឈ្មោល (go chmol)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 악대소 (ko) (akdaeso) , ^{(please verify)} 불깐소 (bulkkanso)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ga (ku)
Latgalian: vierss m
Latin: bōs (la) m, armentum n
Latvian: vērsis (lv)
Lithuanian: jautis (lt) m
Livonian: ǟrga
Low German: Oss m
Lü: ᦷᦣ (ho)
Luxembourgish: Ochs m, Uess m
Macedonian: вол (mk) m (vol)
Middle English: oxe
Mòcheno: ocks
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үхэр (mn) (üxer)
North Frisian: oxse
Nuosu: ꇌ (le)
Occitan: buòu (oc) m
Old Church Slavonic: волъ m (volŭ)
Old East Slavic: волъ m (volŭ)
Old Norse: oxi m, uxi m
Old Turkic: 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (üküz /⁠öküz⁠/)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: گاو (fa) (gâv), وَرْزا (varzâ), بَرْزَگاو (barzagâv)
Polish: wół (pl) m
Portuguese: boi (pt) m
Romanian: bou (ro) m
Romansch: bov
Russian: вол (ru) m (vol), бык (ru) m (byk) (bull)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: boi m

Logudorese: boe m
Scottish Gaelic: damh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̑л m, во̑ m, би̏к m (bull)

Roman: vȏl (sh) m, vȏ (sh) m, bȉk (sh) m (bull)
Sicilian: voi (scn) m, jencu (scn) m
Slovak: vôl (sk) m
Slovene: vol (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: woł m

Upper Sorbian: woł m
Southern Altai: ӧкӱс (öküs), бука (buka)
Spanish: buey (es) m, toro (es) m, novillo (es) m
Swahili: ngʼombe
Swedish: oxe (sv) c
Tagalog: kapong baka
Tajik: барзагов (tg) (barzagov)
Tamil: காளை (ta) (kāḷai)
Taos: mùoyaʼána, tùluʼúna
Telugu: ఎద్దు (te) ? (eddu)
Thai: วัว (th) (wuua), โค (th) (koo)
Tibetan: གླང (glang)
Tigrinya: ብዕራይ (ti) (bəʿray)
Tok Pisin: bulmakau
Turkish: öküz (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: اۊكۏز (öküz)
Ukrainian: віл (uk) m (vil), бик (uk) m (byk) (bull)
Urdu: بَیل m (bail)
Uzbek: bizon (uz), buyvol
Vietnamese: bò (vi)
Volapük: hobub (vo)
Võro: härg
Welsh: ych (cy) m
Yiddish: אָקס m (oks)
Zazaki: ga (diq)

Etymology 2

Clipping of oxygen.

Alternative forms

O, O., OX, Ox., Ox, ox., OXY, Oxy, oxy, oxy.

Noun

ox (uncountable)

Abbreviation of oxygen.
- 2020, Carla Perez, 42:40 from the start, in Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain | Eddie Bauer‎^[1], YouTube, Eddie Bauer, archived from the original on 22 May 2020:
  I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.

Coordinate terms

Related terms

Anagrams

XO, xo

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		ох
Abjad		اوْخ

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸 (q̊¹ /⁠oq⁠/, “arrow”), Chuvash ухӑ (uh̬ă), from Proto-Turkic *ok.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

ox (definite accusative oxu, plural oxlar)

Declension

Declension of ox
	singular	plural
nominative	ox	oxlar
definite accusative	oxu	oxları
dative	oxa	oxlara
locative	oxda	oxlarda
ablative	oxdan	oxlardan
definite genitive	oxun	oxların

Possessive forms of ox
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	oxum	oxlarım
sənin (“your”)	oxun	oxların
onun (“his/her/its”)	oxu	oxları
bizim (“our”)	oxumuz	oxlarımız
sizin (“your”)	oxunuz	oxlarınız
onların (“their”)	oxu or oxları	oxları

	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	oxumu	oxlarımı
sənin (“your”)	oxunu	oxlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	oxunu	oxlarını
bizim (“our”)	oxumuzu	oxlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	oxunuzu	oxlarınızı
onların (“their”)	oxunu or oxlarını	oxlarını

	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	oxuma	oxlarıma
sənin (“your”)	oxuna	oxlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	oxuna	oxlarına
bizim (“our”)	oxumuza	oxlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	oxunuza	oxlarınıza
onların (“their”)	oxuna or oxlarına	oxlarına

	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	oxumda	oxlarımda
sənin (“your”)	oxunda	oxlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	oxunda	oxlarında
bizim (“our”)	oxumuzda	oxlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	oxunuzda	oxlarınızda
onların (“their”)	oxunda or oxlarında	oxlarında

	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	oxumdan	oxlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	oxundan	oxlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	oxundan	oxlarından
bizim (“our”)	oxumuzdan	oxlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	oxunuzdan	oxlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	oxundan or oxlarından	oxlarından

	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	oxumun	oxlarımın
sənin (“your”)	oxunun	oxlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	oxunun	oxlarının
bizim (“our”)	oxumuzun	oxlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	oxunuzun	oxlarınızın
onların (“their”)	oxunun or oxlarının	oxlarının

Derived terms

oxatan
oxluq

Bonan

Alternative forms

ok
oke (Gansu)

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ög-. Cognate to Mongolian өгөх (ögöx) and perhaps Khitan 𘲆 (*û).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɵx/

Verb

ox

(Qinghai) to give
Be Dromada samtexge oxgu tarang erna.
I want to give a gift to Droma.

Epigraphic Mayan

Alternative forms

ux
⟨𝋣⟩

Numeral

ox

three

Lacandon

Numeral

ox

three

Mam

Numeral

ox

three

Middle English

Noun

ox

alternative form of oxe

Yucatec Maya

Numeral

ox

obsolete spelling of óox

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

Coordinate terms

Related terms

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Bonan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Epigraphic Mayan

Alternative forms

Numeral

Lacandon

Numeral

Mam

Numeral

Middle English

Noun

Yucatec Maya

Numeral