noun
Meaning 1
A female goat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nanny goat, nanny, doe
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
she-goat
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃiː.ɡəʊt/
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General-American: /ˈʃi.ɡoʊt/
noun
Meaning 2
female goat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nanny, nanny-goat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: goat, caprine animal
History
Etymology
From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- + goat.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: dhi — female goat
- Arabic: مَعْزة (maʕza) — female goat
- Armenian: այծ (ayc) — female goat
- Asturian: cabra — female goat
- Bulgarian: коза́ (kozá) — female goat
- Burmese: ဆိတ်မ (hcitma.) — female goat
- Catalan: cabra — female goat
- Chinese: 羭 (yú) — female goat
- Chinese Mandarin: 山羊 (shānyáng) — female goat
- Czech: koza — female goat
- Dalmatian: capraina — female goat
- Dutch: geit — female goat
- Esperanto: kaprino — female goat
- Finnish: kuttu — female goat
- French: chèvre — female goat
- French: bique — female goat
- Galician: godalla — female goat
- Galician: xena — female goat
- Galician: cabuxa — female goat
- Galician: bode-seixo — female goat
- Galician: cabirta — female goat
- Galician: craba — female goat
- German: Geiß — female goat
- German: Mutterziege — female goat
- German: Zibbe — female goat
- German: Zicke — female goat
- German: Ziege — female goat
- German: Ziegenweibchen — female goat
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits) — female goat
- Greek: αίγα (aíga) — female goat
- Ancient Greek: αἴξ (aíx) — female goat
- Hebrew: עֵז (éz) — female goat
- Hungarian: nőstény kecske — female goat
- Hungarian: anyakecske — female goat
- Ido: kaprino — female goat
- Italian: capra — female goat
- Japanese: 山羊 (yagi) — female goat
- Kashmiri: ژھاوٕج (ċhāvụj) — female goat
- Latin: capra — female goat
- Latin: capella — female goat
- Low German: Zeeg — female goat
- Low German: Zääg — female goat
- Low German: Seeg — female goat
- Low German: Sääg — female goat
- Macedonian: коза (koza) — female goat
- Khiamniungan Naga: ūosāng — female goat
- Navajo: tłʼízítsaʼii — female goat
- Norwegian Bokmål: geit — female goat
- Norwegian Nynorsk: geit — female goat
- Old Church Slavonic: коза (koza) — female goat
- Pali: ajā — female goat
- Polish: koza — female goat
- Portuguese: cabra — female goat
- Romanian: capră — female goat
- Russian: коза́ (kozá) — female goat
- Sanskrit: अजा (ajā) — female goat
- Serbo-Croatian: koza — female goat
- Sicilian: crapa — female goat
- Spanish: cabra — female goat
- Tocharian B: ās — female goat
- Turkish: dişi keçi — female goat
- Ukrainian: коза́ (kozá) — female goat
- Ukrainian: цапи́ха (capýxa) — female goat
- Ukrainian: козли́ця (kozlýcja) — female goat
- Ukrainian: коза́-дереза́ (kozá-derezá) — female goat
- Volapük: jikapar — female goat