livestock - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• live stock, live-stock (dated)

From live + stock.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪvstɒk/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪvstɑk/

livestock (usually uncountable, plural livestocks)

1. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
   Coordinate term: stock animal
   The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.
   Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.
   Much livestock was slaughtered due to high feed prices.
   In the West there are local areas with too many livestock.
   Women herded small livestocks such as goats and sheep.
   • 2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297:
     These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.

• The phrase "head of livestock", with head as a collective noun, refers to an individual farm animal without specifying the species.

• deadstock

• industrial livestock production

• livestock car

• livestock crush

• livestock unit

• nonlivestock

farm animals

• Afrikaans: vee (af)

• Arabic: (indefinite) مَوَاشٍ f pl (mawāšin), أَنْعَام (ar) f pl (ʔanʕām), دَوَاجِن f pl (dawājin) (birds)
  Egyptian Arabic: مواشي f pl (mawāšī), دواجن f pl (dawāgen)
  Moroccan Arabic: بهايم m (bhāyim), كسيبة (ksība)

• Armenian: անասուն (hy) pl (anasun)

• Asturian: ganáu m

• Azerbaijani: mal-qara

• Bashkir: мал (mal), мал-тыуар (mal-tıwar)

• Basque: azienda, abere

• Belarusian: бы́дла n (býdla)

• Bhojpuri: पशुधन (paśudhan)

• Bulgarian: добитък (bg) m (dobitǎk)

• Catalan: bestiar (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 家畜 (zh) (jiāchù), 牲畜 (zh) (shēngchù)

• Czech: dobytek (cs) m

• Dutch: vee (nl) n, veestapel (nl) m

• Finnish: karja (fi)

• French: cheptel vif m, bétail (fr) m

• Galician: gando (gl) m, gado (gl) m

• Georgian: პირუტყვი (ṗiruṭq̇vi), საქონელი (ka) (sakoneli)

• German: Vieh (de) n, Nutztiere (de) n pl, Nutzvieh (de) n

• Greek: ζωικό κεφάλαιο n (zoïkó kefálaio)
  Ancient Greek: κτῆνη n pl (ktênē)

• Hindi: पशुधन (paśudhan)

• Hungarian: haszonállat (hu), jószág (hu), lábasjószág (hu), állatállomány (hu)

• Icelandic: búfé n

• Irish: stoc m

• Italian: bestiame (it) m

• Japanese: 家畜 (ja) (かちく, kachiku)

• Kabuverdianu: limária

• Kannada: ದನ (kn) (dana)

• Karakalpak: mal

• Kazakh: түлік (tülık)

• Korean: 가축 (ko) (gachuk)

• Latin: pecus n, pecuāria f

• Latvian: lopi m pl, mājlopi m pl

• Lithuanian: galvi̇̀jas m, gyvulỹs (lt) m

• Low German: veehtüch

• Macedonian: добиток m (dobitok), стока (mk) f (stoka)

• Malay: ternakan (ms), haiwan ternakan

• Malayalam: കന്നുകാലി (ml) (kannukāli)

• Manx: sthock m

• Māori: kararehe (used in the plural)

• Middle English: bestayle

• Navajo: naaldlooshii, łį́į́ʼ, bilį́į́ʼ, alį́į́ʼ

• Norwegian: husdyr (no) n, fe (no) n

• Old English: feoh n

• Old Saxon: fehu

• Polish: dobytek (pl) m, inwentarz (pl) m

• Portuguese: gado (pt) m, pecuária (pt)

• Romanian: șeptel (ro) n

• Russian: поголо́вье (ru) n (pogolóvʹje), поголо́вье скота́ n (pogolóvʹje skotá), скоти́на (ru) f (skotína), скот (ru) m (skot)

• Slovak: dobytok (sk) m

• Slovene: živina (sl) f

• Spanish: ganado (es) m

• Swedish: boskap (sv) c

• Tagalog: palahayupan

• Thai: ปศุสัตว์ (bpà-sù-sàt)

• Turkish: enam (tr), mal (tr), çiftlik hayvanları (tr), besi hayvanları

• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎅𐎎𐎚 (bhmt)

• Ukrainian: худо́ба (uk) f (xudóba), скоти́на f (skotýna)

• Uyghur: ئۇلاغ (ulagh)

• Vietnamese: thú nuôi (獸𩟼), gia súc (vi) (家畜)

• Walloon: bisteu (wa) m

• Welsh: da byw m

• Yiddish: פֿיך n (fikh)

• breeding

• cattle