English

Etymology

From the Portuguese bufalo , from the Late Latin bubalus , from the Greek boubalos , African antelope.

Pronunciation

• bŭf'ə-lō, /ˈbʌfələʊ/, /"bVf@l@U/

Noun

buffalo (Plural buffaloes, buffalos, or buffalo)

1. Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape Buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo.
2. A related North American animal, the American Bison, Bison bison.
3. A buffalo robe.
4. The buffalo fish.

Transitive verb

buffaloed, buffaloing, buffaloes.

1. to hunt buffalo
2. (U.S. slang):. To outwit.

Related terms

• water buffalo

Translations

• Albanian: bualli
• Basque: bufalo
• Belarusian: буйвал
• Breton: bual
• Bulgarian: бивол (bivol )
• Catalan: búfal
• Croatian: bivol
• Czech: buvol
• Danish: bøffel
• Dutch: buffel m
• Esperanto: bubalo
• Estonian: pühvel
• Faroese: búffil
• Finnish: puhveli
• French: buffle m
• Frisian: buffel
• Friulian: bufal , bo salvadi
• Gallegan: búfalo
• German: Büffel m
• Greek: βουβάλι
• Hungarian: bivaly
• Icelandic: buffall
• Irish: buaball
• Italian: bufalo
• KiSwahili: mbogo
• Ladin: bo salvare
• Latvian: bifelis
• Lithuanian: buivolas
• Lower Sorbian: buwoł
• Macedonian: бивол (bivol )
• Malay: misa
• Maltese: buflu
• Norwegian: bøffel
• Occitan: bufre
• Polish: bawół
• Portuguese: búfalo
• Romanian: bivol
• Romansh: bov selvadi
• Romany: guruv m
• Russian: буйвол (bujvol)
• Sami: buffalo
• Sardinian: boe aresti , búfalu
• Scottish: buabhall
• Serbian: биво (bivo )
• Slovak: byvol
• Slovenian: bivol m
• Spanish: búfalo m
• Swedish: buffel
• Turkish: kara sığır
• Ukrainian: буйвол (bujvol )
• Upper Sorbian: buwoł
• Welsh: byfflo