goat

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡəʊt/
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• Northumbria, Scotland: /ɡoːt/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ɡəwt/
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• General-American: /ɡoʊt/
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• General-American: [ɡoʊʔt̚]
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• Canada: /ɡoʊt/
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• Canada: [ɡoʊʔt̚]
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• Canada: [ɡoːt]
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• Australian: /ɡəʉt/
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• Australian: [ɡəʉt]
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• Australian: [ɡɐʉt]
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• New-Zealand: /ɡɐʉt/
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• CMU ARPABET: G OW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language. The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gher-der. Proto-Germanic *grautaz Proto-West Germanic *graut Old English grēat Middle English grete English great Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istHos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-West Germanic *-ist Old English -est Middle English -est English -est English greatest Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English of Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h2elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Old English eall Middle English all English all Proto-Indo-European *deh2-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh2y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh2i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time English GOAT Abbreviation.

456 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аџьма (adžma) — animal
• Abkhaz: аџьмаб (adžmab) — animal
• Acehnese: kamèng — animal
• Afrikaans: bok — animal
• Aghwan: 𐕛𐔴𐔾 (vel) — animal
• Ahom: 𑜆𑜦𑜧 𑜂𑜡 (pē ṅā) — animal
• Akan: abirekyie — animal
• Akkadian: 𒍚 (enzu) — animal
• Albanian: dhi — animal
• Albanian: berk — animal
• Alviri-Vidari: بیز (biz) — animal
• Amharic: ፍየል (fəyäl) — animal
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kínch'ió — animal
• Arabic: مَاعِز (māʕiz) — animal
• Arabic: عَنْزَة (ʕanza) — animal
• Arabic: معزة (maʕza) — animal
• Arabic: عنزة (ʕanza) — animal
• Iraqi Arabic: سخل (sáḵel) — animal
• Arabic: عتروس (ʕatrous) — animal
• Arabic: معزاية (meʕzāye) — animal
• Arabic: عنزة (ʕanze) — animal
• Arabic: ماعز (māʕez) — animal
• Arabic: معز (maʕz) — animal
• Arabic: معزة (maʕza) — animal
• Arabic: عنزة (ʕanze) — animal
• Arabic: سخل (sáḵel) — animal
• Aragonese: craba — animal
• Aragonese: crapa — animal
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܸܙܵܐ (ʿizza) — animal
• Armenian: այծ (ayc) — animal
• Armenian: նոխազ (noxaz) — animal
• Armenian: քոշ (kʻoš) — animal
• Armenian: քաղ (kʻaġ) — animal
• Old Armenian: այծ (ayc) — animal
• Old Armenian: նոխազ (noxaz) — animal
• Old Armenian: քօշ (kʻōš) — animal
• Old Armenian: քաղ (kʻał) — animal
• Aromanian: caprã — animal
• Assamese: ছাগলী (sagoli) — animal
• Assamese: ছাগল (sagol) — animal
• Assamese: ছাগ (sag) — animal
• Asturian: cabra — animal
• Atayal: mit qnahi — animal
• Avar: цӏцӏе (ccʼe) — animal
• Avar: дегӏен (deʻen) — animal
• Avestan: 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀 (būza) — animal
• Azerbaijani: keçi — animal
• Azerbaijani: təkə — animal
• Bakhtiari: بز (boz) — animal
• Bangi: ntaba — animal
• Bashkir: кәзә (kəzə) — animal
• Basque: ahuntz — animal
• Basque: aker — animal
• Bats: გაზან (gazã) — animal
• Belarusian: каза́ (kazá) — animal
• Belarusian: казёл (kazjól) — animal
• Beli (South Sudan): binya kpitɔ binya — animal
• Bengali: ছাগল (chagol) — animal
• Bengali: বকরা (bokra) — animal
• Bhojpuri: बकरी (bakərī) — animal
• Central Bikol: kanding — animal
• Breton: gavr — animal
• Buginese: bembe — animal
• Bulgarian: коза́ (kozá) — animal
• Bulgarian: козе́л (kozél) — animal
• Burmese: ဆိတ် (hcit) — animal
• Buryat: ямаан (jamaan) — animal
• Catalan: cabra — animal
• Cebuano: kanding — animal
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵖⴻⵟⵟⴻⵏ (tiɣeṭṭen) — animal
• Western Cham: ڤبي — animal
• Chechen: газа (gaza) — animal
• Chechen: бож (bož) — animal
• Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏐᏣᏁᏛ (ugasotsanedv) — animal
• Cheyenne: mé'hahtsékósa — animal
• Chichewa: mbuzi — animal
• Tedim Chin: keel — animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 山羊 (saan1 joeng4) — animal
• Chinese: җүлү (žülü) — animal
• Eastern Min Chinese: 山羊 (săng-iòng) — animal
• Hakka Chinese: 山羊 (sân-yòng) — animal
• Chinese: 山羊 (soan-iûn) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 羊 (yáng) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 山羊 (shānyáng) — animal
• Northern Min Chinese: 山羊 (suíng-iông) — animal
• Wu Chinese: 山羊 (1se-yan) — animal
• Chuvash: качака (kač̬ak̬a) — animal
• East Circassian: бжэн (bžɛn) — animal
• West Circassian: пчэны (pčɛnə) — animal
• Cornish: gaver — animal
• Corsican: capra — animal
• Crimean Tatar: eçki — animal
• Crimean Tatar: teke — animal
• Czech: koza — animal
• Czech: kozel — animal
• Danish: ged — animal
• Daur: ima — animal
• Dhivehi: ބަކަރި (bakari) — animal
• Central Dusun: kambing — animal
• Dutch: geit — animal
• Dutch: bok — animal
• Dzongkha: རྭ་ (rwa) — animal
• Elfdalian: djiet — animal
• Emilian: chèvra — animal
• Erzya: сея (seja) — animal
• Esperanto: kapro — animal
• Esperanto: virkapro — animal
• Esperanto: kaprino — animal
• Estonian: kits — animal
• Evenki: каир (kajir) — animal
• Ewe: gbɔ̃ — animal
• Farefare: bʋa — animal
• Faroese: geit — animal
• Finnish: vuohi — animal
• Franco-Provençal: cabra — animal
• Franco-Provençal: chèvra — animal
• French: chèvre — animal
• French: bouc — animal
• French: bique — animal
• Saterland Frisian: Sääge — animal
• West-Frisian: geit — animal
• Friulian: cjavre — animal
• Friulian: čhavre — animal
• Galician: cabra — animal
• Galician: godalla — animal
• Galician: xena — animal
• Galician: cabuxa — animal
• Galician: neixente — animal
• Galician: bodeseixo — animal
• Galician: barbada — animal
• Galician: guenepa — animal
• Georgian: თხა (txa) — animal
• Georgian: ქოშიკი (košiḳi) — animal
• German: Ziege — animal
• German: Geiß — animal
• German: Bock — animal
• German: Geiss — animal
• Bavarian German: Goaß — animal
• Middle High German: geiz — animal
• Middle High German: zige — animal
• Old High German: geiz — animal
• Old High German: ziga — animal
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits) — animal
• Greek: κατσίκα (katsíka) — animal
• Greek: γίδα (gída) — animal
• Greek: γίδι (gídi) — animal
• Ancient Greek: τράγος (trágos) — animal
• Ancient Greek: αἴξ (aíx) — animal
• Cypriot Greek: τσούρα (tsoúra) — animal
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐁒 — animal
• Greenlandic: savaasaq — animal
• Paraguayan Guarani: kavara — animal
• Gujarati: બકરી (bakrī) — animal
• Haitian Creole: kabrit — animal
• Hausa: bunsuru — animal
• Hebrew: תיש \ תַּיִשׁ (táyish) — animal
• Hebrew: עז \ עֵז (ez) — animal
• Hindi: बकरी (bakrī) — animal
• Hindi: बकरा (bakrā) — animal
• Hobyót: ḥooruún — animal
• Hungarian: kecske — animal
• Hungarian: bak — animal
• Hungarian: kecskebak — animal
• Icelandic: geit — animal
• Ido: kapro — animal
• Ilocano: kalding — animal
• Indonesian: kambing — animal
• Ingrian: kili — animal
• Ingrian: kilo — animal
• Ingrian: voohi — animal
• Ingush: газа (gaza) — animal
• Interlingua: capra — animal
• Irish: gabhar — animal
• Old Irish: gabor — animal
• Istriot: càvara — animal
• Italian: capra — animal
• Ivatan: kaddin — animal
• Japanese: ヤギ (yagi) — animal
• Japanese: 山羊 (yagi) — animal
• Javanese: wedhus — animal
• Old Javanese: kambiṅ — animal
• Old Javanese: wĕḍus — animal
• Old Javanese: wiwi — animal
• Jeju: 염쉐 (yeomswe) — animal
• Jingpho: bainam — animal
• Kabyle: taɣaṭ — animal
• Ledo Kaili: tovau — animal
• Kalmyk: яман (yaman) — animal
• Kamta: বকৰী (bokori) — animal
• Kamta: ছাগল (sagol) — animal
• Kannada: ಮೇಕೆ (mēke) — animal
• Kapampangan: kambing — animal
• Karelian: čiba — animal
• Kashmiri: ژھاوُل (ċhāvul) — animal
• Kashmiri: ژھاوٕج (ċhāvụj) — animal
• Kashubian: kòza — animal
• Kazakh: ешкі (eşkı) — animal
• Kazakh: теке (teke) — animal
• Khalaj: göčü — animal
• Khmer: ពពែ (pɔɔpɔpɛɛ) — animal
• Khmer: សត្វពពែ (sat pɔɔpɔpɛɛ) — animal
• Kikuyu: mbũri — animal
• Kikuyu: harika — animal
• Komi-Permyak: кӧза (köza) — animal
• Kongo: nkombo — animal
• Korean: 염소 (yeomso) — animal
• Korean: 산양 (sanyang) — animal
• Kumyk: эчки (eçki) — animal
• Central Kurdish: بِزِن (bizin) — animal
• Northern Kurdish: bizin — animal
• Kyrgyz: эчки (ecki) — animal
• Ladin: cioura — animal
• Ladin: cëura — animal
• Lak: цӏуку (cʼuku) — animal
• Lak: кьяца (qʼaʕca) — animal
• Lao: ແບ້ (bǣ) — animal
• Latgalian: koza — animal
• Latgalian: uozs — animal
• Latin: caper — animal
• Latin: capra — animal
• Latin: hircus — animal
• Latvian: kaza — animal
• Latvian: āzis — animal
• Laz: ქოშატი (koşaťi) — animal
• Lezgi: цӏегь (c̣eh) — animal
• Limburgish: geit — animal
• Lingala: ntaba — animal
• Lithuanian: ožka — animal
• Lithuanian: ožys — animal
• Lokono: kabaritu — animal
• Lombard: cavra — animal
• Low German: Zeeg — animal
• Low German: Zääg — animal
• Low German: Seeg — animal
• Low German: Sääg — animal
• Lü: ᦶᦢᧉ (ḃae2) — animal
• Luba-Kasai: mbuji — animal
• Luba-Katanga: mbuji — animal
• Luganda: embuzi — animal
• Luxembourgish: Geess — animal
• Macedonian: коза (koza) — animal
• Macedonian: јарец (jarec) — animal
• Malagasy: osy — animal
• Malay: kambing — animal
• Malayalam: ആട് (āṭŭ) — animal
• Maltese: mogħża — animal
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠮᠠᠨ (niman) — animal
• Manx: goayr — animal
• Māori: nanenane — animal
• Māori: koati — animal
• Marathi: बकरी (bakrī) — animal
• Marathi: शेळी (śeḷī) — animal
• Mauritian Creole: kabri — animal
• Mazanderani: بز (bez) — animal
• Megleno-Romanian: capră — animal
• Central Melanau: kabieng — animal
• Middle English: got — animal
• Mi'kmaq: te'plj — animal
• Mi'kmaq: te'pulj — animal
• Mòcheno: goas — animal
• Moksha: сява (säva) — animal
• Mon: ဗ္ၜေံ — animal
• Mongolian: ямаа (jamaa) — animal
• Mongolian: ᠢᠮᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (imaɣ-a) — animal
• Moore: bʋʋga — animal
• Mwani: mbuzi — animal
• Khiamniungan Naga: ûo — animal
• Nanai: иман (iman) — animal
• Nauruan: ekaun — animal
• Navajo: tłʼízí — animal
• Neapolitan: crapa — animal
• Nengone: goutre — animal
• Newar: दुगु (dugu) — animal
• Norman: biche — animal
• Norman: bich — animal
• Norman: kièvre — animal
• Norman: quièvre — animal
• Northern Dagara: boɔ — animal
• Northern Sotho: pudi — animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: geit — animal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: geit — animal
• Occitan: cabra — animal
• Occitan: chabra — animal
• Occitan: craba — animal
• Occitan: chèbrë — animal
• Odia: ଛେଳି (cheḷi) — animal
• Ojibwe: maanadik — animal
• Okinawan: ひーじゃー (hiijaa) — animal
• Church Slavic: коза (koza) — animal
• Church Slavic: козьлъ (kozĭlŭ) — animal
• Church Slavic: ⰽⱁⰸⰰ (koza) — animal
• Old English: gāt — animal
• Old Norse: geit — animal
• Oromo: re'ee — animal
• Ossetian: цӕу (cæw) — animal
• Ossetian: сӕгъ (sæǧ) — animal
• Pali: aja — animal
• Pannonian Rusyn: коза (koza) — animal
• Papiamentu: kabritu — animal
• Pashto: وزه (uza) — animal
• Dari: بُز (buz) — animal
• Iranian Persian: بُز (boz) — animal
• Picard: gate — animal
• Piedmontese: crava — animal
• Plautdietsch: Bock (nds) — animal
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: chebre — animal
• Polabian: ťözâ — animal
• Polish: koza — animal
• Polish: kozioł — animal
• Portuguese: bode — animal
• Portuguese: cabra — animal
• Punjabi: ਬੱਕਰੀ (bakkarī) — animal
• Quechua: kawra — animal
• Rarotongan: umemē — animal
• Romani: buzno — animal
• Romani: buzni — animal
• Romanian: capră — animal
• Romanian: țap — animal
• Romansh: chaura — animal
• Romansh: caura — animal
• Romansh: tgora — animal
• Romansh: chevra — animal
• Romansh: chavra — animal
• Russian: коза́ (kozá) — animal
• Russian: козёл (kozjól) — animal
• Rwanda-Rundi: ihene — animal
• Rwanda-Rundi: impene — animal
• Saanich: NÁNI — animal
• Northern Sami: gáica — animal
• Samoan: ʻoti — animal
• Samogitian: uožka — animal
• Sanskrit: अजा (ajā) — animal
• Sanskrit: अज (aja) — animal
• Sanskrit: छाग (chāga) — animal
• Santali: ᱢᱮᱨᱳᱢ (merom) — animal
• Sardinian: craba — animal
• Sardinian: becca — animal
• Scots: gait — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: gobhar — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀за — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: ја̏рац — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: kòza — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: jȁrac — animal
• Seychellois Creole: kabri — animal
• Shan: ပႄႉ (pâ̰ae) — animal
• Shona: mbudzi — animal
• Sicilian: beccu — animal
• Sicilian: crapa — animal
• Sidamo: meʼe — animal
• Silesian: koza — animal
• Sinhalese: ළුළුවා (ḷuḷuwā) — animal
• Slovak: koza — animal
• Slovak: kozel — animal
• Slovak: cap — animal
• Slovene: koza — animal
• Slovene: kozel — animal
• Somali: ri' — animal
• Lower Sorbian: kóza — animal
• Lower Sorbian: kózoł — animal
• Upper Sorbian: koza — animal
• Upper Sorbian: kоzоł — animal
• Sotho: podi — animal
• Spanish: cabra — animal
• Spanish: chivo — animal
• Sumerian: 𒍚 (ÙZ) — animal
• Sundanese: êmbé — animal
• Svan: დაჴჷლ (daqəl) — animal
• Swahili: mbuzi — animal
• Swedish: get — animal
• Sylheti: ꠍꠣꠉꠟ (ságol) — animal
• Tagalog: kambing — animal
• Tajik: буз (buz) — animal
• Talysh: بز (bəz) — animal
• Tamil: வெள்ளாடு (veḷḷāṭu) — animal
• Tamil: ஆடு (āṭu) — animal
• Tashelhit: aɣaḍ — animal
• Tatar: кәҗә (käcä) — animal
• Tày: bẻ — animal
• Telugu: మేక (mēka) — animal
• Thai: แพะ (pɛ́) — animal
• Tibetan: ར (ra) — animal
• Tigrinya: ጤል (ṭel) — animal
• Tongan: koti — animal
• Tonga (Zambia): mpongo — animal
• Tooro: embuzi class 9 — animal
• Tswana: podi — animal
• Tumbuka: mbuzi — animal
• Turkish: keçi — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: كچی (keçi) — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: بز (büz) — animal
• Turkmen: geçi — animal
• Tuvan: өшкү (öşkü) — animal
• Udi: вел (vel) — animal
• Udmurt: кеч (keć) — animal
• Ukrainian: коза́ (kozá) — animal
• Ukrainian: козе́л (kozél) — animal
• Ukrainian: цап (cap) — animal
• Urdu: بَکْری (bakrī) — animal
• Urdu: بُز (buz) — animal
• Urdu: بَکْرا (bakrā) — animal
• Uyghur: ئۆچكە (öchke) — animal
• Uzbek: echki — animal
• Venetan: cavra — animal
• Venetan: càvara — animal
• Venetan: càora — animal
• Vietnamese: dê — animal
• Vietnamese: con dê — animal
• Vilamovian: cejg — animal
• Volapük: kapar — animal
• Volapük: hikapar — animal
• Volapük: jikapar — animal
• Volapük: golad — animal
• Volapük: jigolad — animal
• Volapük: of-golad (cf. ofgolad) — animal
• Walloon: gade — animal
• Walloon: tchive — animal
• Waray-Waray: kanding — animal
• Welsh: gafr — animal
• Wolaytta: deeshshaa — animal
• Wolof: bëy wi — animal
• Xhosa: ibhokhwe — animal
• Yakut: ньамаан (ňamaan) — animal
• Yiddish: ציג (tsig) — animal
• Yiddish: באָק (bok) — animal
• Yiddish: צאַפּ (tsap) — animal
• Yoruba: ewúrẹ́ — animal
• Zazaki: bıze (diq) — animal
• Zhuang: yiengz — animal
• Zhuang: mbej — animal
• Zou: kel — animal
• Zulu: imbuzi — animal
• ǃXóõ: páli — animal
• Bulgarian: пръч (prǎč) — lecherous man
• Catalan: lleuger — lecherous man
• Catalan: lleugera — lecherous man
• Danish: buk — lecherous man
• Estonian: jäär — lecherous man
• Estonian: täkk — lecherous man
• Estonian: aeleja — lecherous man
• Estonian: hilbakas — lecherous man
• Estonian: litutaja — lecherous man
• Estonian: liiderdaja — lecherous man
• Estonian: tutituulik — lecherous man
• Estonian: nugis — lecherous man
• Finnish: pukki — lecherous man
• Greek: τράγος (trágos) — lecherous man
• Indonesian: bandot — lecherous man
• Italian: capra — lecherous man
• Serbo-Croatian: ја̏рац — lecherous man
• Serbo-Croatian: jȁrac — lecherous man
• Spanish: libidinoso — lecherous man
• Spanish: libidinosa — lecherous man
• Swedish: kåtbock — lecherous man
• Swedish: bock — lecherous man
• Turkish: keçi — lecherous man
• Zazaki: khel — lecherous man