buffalo

• n. [家畜][脊椎動物]バッファロー; [脊椎動物]バイソン（北アメリカ産）; 水陸両用戦車
• n.(バッファローの)人名;(英)Buffalo

語源的にはbov（牛）と同じ。

buffalo

buffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the ‘water buffalo’, Bubalis bubalis, a large oxlike animal of Asia and Africa, and subsequently extended to the ‘Cape buffalo’ of South Africa, Syncerus caffer. The Portuguese word came from late Latin bufalus, an alteration of Latin bubalus, which was borrowed from Greek boúbalos. The Greek word, which seems to have named a type of African gazelle, may have been formed from bous ‘ox’. The application of the word to the North American bison, which is still regarded as ‘incorrect’, dates from the late 18th century.
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buffalo (n.)

1580s (earlier buffel, 1510s, from Middle French), from Portuguese bufalo "water buffalo," from Latin bufalus, variant of bubalus "wild ox," from Greek boubalos "buffalo," originally a kind of African antelope, later used of a type of domesticated ox in southern Asia and the Mediterranean lands, perhaps from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Wrongly applied since 1630s to the American bison. Buffalo gnat is recorded from 1822.

Buffalo

city in western New York state, U.S., of disputed origin (there never were buffalo thereabouts), perhaps from the name of a native chief, or a corruption of French beau fleuve "beautiful river." Buffalo wings finger food so called because the recipe was invented in Buffalo (1964, at Frank & Teressa's Anchor Bar on Main Street).

buffalo (v.)

"alarm, overawe," 1900, from buffalo (n.). Probably from the animals' tendency to mass panic. Related: Buffaloed; buffaloing.

1. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains.

北米の大平原には7000万頭の野牛がいた。

2.A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo .

一群のハゲワシが野牛の死体にうずくまっている。

3.The festival commemorates the slaying of the demon buffalo .

その祝日は魔牛を殺すことを記念するためである。

4.You can see the fresh buffalo dung on the country road.

田舎の小道では、地下に入って間もない水牛糞を見ることができます。

5.Asian buffalo isn 't as wild as that of America 's.

アジア系水牛はアメリカ水牛よりもおとなしい。