sheep

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• /ˈʃiːp/
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Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp (West Saxon sċēap), from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą, of unknown origin. Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian цӕу (cæw, “goat”), Persian چپش (čapiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *skēpą is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law. Cognates Cognate with Scots sheep (“sheep”), Yola sheep, zheep (“sheep”), North Frisian schep, schäip, Sjip (“sheep”), Saterland Frisian Schäip, Skäip (“sheep”), West Frisian skiep (“sheep”), Alemannic German Schaf, Schooff (“sheep”), Bavarian Schof, Schouf, Schåf (“sheep”), Dutch schaap (“sheep”), German Schaf (“sheep”), German Low German Schaap (“sheep”), Limburgish Schoëp, sjaop (“sheep”), Luxembourgish Schof (“sheep”), Vilamovian siöf (“sheep”), Yiddish שאָף (shof, “sheep”).

438 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: azib — animal
• Acehnese: bubiri — animal
• Afar: idá — animal
• Afar: marúw — animal
• Afrikaans: skaap — animal
• Afrikaans: skape — animal
• Ainu: ヒチュチ (hicuci) — animal
• Akkadian: 𒇻 (immeru) — animal
• Albanian: delme — animal
• Albanian: dele — animal
• Albanian: berr — animal
• Amharic: በግ (bäg) — animal
• Chungli Ao: san — animal
• Chiricahua: dibéhé — animal
• Jicarilla: dibé — animal
• Western Apache: dibéé — animal
• Western Apache: dobéé — animal
• Western Apache: dibéłįį — animal
• Western Apache: bee’é — animal
• Western Apache: mee’é — animal
• Western Apache: mę’é — animal
• Arabic: خَرُوف (ḵarūf) — animal
• Arabic: ضَأْن (ḍaʔn) — animal
• Arabic: غَنَم (ḡanam) — animal
• Arabic: شاء (šāʔ) — animal
• Arabic: حَمَل (ḥamal) — animal
• Arabic: خروف (ḵarūf) — animal
• Arabic: خاروف (ḵārūf) — animal
• Arabic: غنمة (ḡanama) — animal
• Arabic: غنم (ḡanam) — animal
• Iraqi Arabic: غنم (ḡanam) — animal
• Arabic: غنم (ḡnam) — animal
• Arabic: خروف (ḵrūf) — animal
• Arabic: خروفة (ḵrūfa) — animal
• Arabic: نعجة (naʕja) — animal
• Arabic: حولي (ḥawli) — animal
• Arabic: خروف (ḵarūf) — animal
• Arabic: غنمة (ḡaname) — animal
• Arabic: غنم (ḡanam) — animal
• Armenian: ոչխար (očʻxar) — animal
• Aromanian: oai (roa-rup) — animal
• Aromanian: oae — animal
• Assamese: ভেৰা (bhera) — animal
• Assamese: ভেড়া (bhera) — animal
• Assamese: ভেৰা ছাগলী (bhera sagoli) — animal
• Assamese: ভেড়া ছাগলী (bhera sagoli) — animal
• Asturian: oveya — animal
• Aymara: iwija — animal
• Azerbaijani: qoyun — animal
• Bactrian: ποσο (poso) — animal
• Bakhtiari: میش (mēš) — animal
• Balinese: biri-biri — animal
• Baluchi: میش (mēš) — animal
• Baluchi: پس (pas) — animal
• Bangi: mbata — animal
• Bashkir: һарыҡ (harıq) — animal
• Basque: ardi — animal
• Dairi Batak: biri-biri — animal
• Karo Batak: biri-biri — animal
• Belarusian: аве́чка (avjéčka) — animal
• Belarusian: аўца́ (awcá) — animal
• Bengali: ভেড়া (bheṛa) — animal
• Bengali: মেষ (meś) — animal
• Bau Bidayuh: koming — animal
• Brahui: melle — animal
• Breton: dañvad — animal
• Breton: maout — animal
• Breton: dañvadez — animal
• Bulgarian: овца́ (ovcá) — animal
• Burmese: သိုး (sui:) — animal
• Burmese: ဆိတ်ကုလား (hcitku.la:) — animal
• Buryat: хонин (xonin) — animal
• Catalan: ovella — animal
• Chechen: уьстагӏ (üstağ) — animal
• Cherokee: ᎠᏫ ᎤᏃᏕᎾ (awi unodena) — animal
• Chichewa: nkhosa — animal
• Chickasaw: chokfi — animal
• Chickasaw: chokfi ishto' — animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 綿羊 /绵羊 — animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 羊 (joeng4) — animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 羊咩 (joeng4 me1) — animal
• Chinese: мянён (mianion) — animal
• Chinese: ён (ion) — animal
• Eastern Min Chinese: 綿羊 /绵羊 (mièng-iòng) — animal
• Hakka Chinese: 綿羊 /绵羊 (mièn-yòng) — animal
• Chinese: 綿羊 /绵羊 (mî-iûn) — animal
• Chinese: 羊 (iûn) — animal
• Chinese: 羊仔 (iûn-á) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 綿羊 /绵羊 (miányáng) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 羊 (yáng) — animal
• Wu Chinese: 綿羊 /绵羊 (6mi-yan6) — animal
• Wu Chinese: 湖羊 (6wu-yan6) — animal
• Chuukese: siip — animal
• Chuvash: сурӑх (surăh) — animal
• Maore Comorian: ɓariɓari — animal
• Cornish: davas — animal
• Crimean Tatar: qoy — animal
• Czech: ovce — animal
• Danish: får — animal
• Daur: xonii — animal
• Dongxiang: ghoni — animal
• Dutch: schaap — animal
• Dzongkha: ལུག (lug) — animal
• Ifè: àgùɖã̀ — animal
• Edo: óhuán — animal
• Esperanto: ŝafo — animal
• Estonian: lammas — animal
• Evenki: беру (beru) — animal
• Ewe: alẽ — animal
• Faroese: seyður — animal
• Finnish: lammas — animal
• French: mouton — animal
• North Frisian: schep — animal
• North Frisian: schäip — animal
• Saterland Frisian: Skäip — animal
• West-Frisian: skiep — animal
• Friulian: piore — animal
• Friulian: fede — animal
• Galician: ovella — animal
• Galician: motóa — animal
• Galician: almella — animal
• Galician: andosca — animal
• Gamilaraay: thimba — animal
• Gaulish: multon- — animal
• Ge'ez: በግዕ (baggə') — animal
• Georgian: ცხვარი (cxvari) — animal
• German: Schaf — animal
• Gondi: గొర్రె (gorre) — animal
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌱 (lamb) — animal
• Greek: πρόβατο (próvato) — animal
• Ancient Greek: οἶς (oîs) — animal
• Ancient Greek: πρόβατον (próbaton) — animal
• Mariupol Greek: про́вату (próvatu) — animal
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐀥 (qi) — animal
• Tsakonian: βάννε (vánne) — animal
• Greenlandic: sava — animal
• Mbya Guarani: ovexa — animal
• Paraguayan Guarani: ovecha — animal
• Gujarati: ઘેટું (gheṭũ) — animal
• Haitian Creole: mouton — animal
• Hausa: tunkìyā — animal
• Hawaiian: hipa — animal
• Hebrew: כֶּבֶשׂ (kéves) — animal
• Hindi: भेड़ (bheṛ) — animal
• Hindi: मेष (meṣ) — animal
• Hungarian: juh — animal
• Hungarian: birka — animal
• Icelandic: sauður — animal
• Icelandic: sauðkind — animal
• Icelandic: kind — animal
• Icelandic: fé — animal
• Icelandic: sauðfé — animal
• Icelandic: ær (ewe) — animal
• Icelandic: rolla — animal
• Ido: mutono — animal
• Igala: álá — animal
• Igala: àgwùtọ̀ — animal
• Igbo: atụlū — animal
• Indonesian: domba — animal
• Indonesian: biri-biri — animal
• Ingrian: lammas — animal
• Ingush: устагӏ (ustağ) — animal
• Interlingua: ove — animal
• Irish: caora — animal
• Middle Irish: cáera — animal
• Old Irish: cauru — animal
• Italian: pecora — animal
• Itsekiri: àgútàn — animal
• Izon: ọnị́na — animal
• Japanese: 羊 (hitsují) — animal
• Japanese: ヒツジ (hitsuji) — animal
• Japanese: 綿羊 (men'yō) — animal
• Javanese: wedhus — animal
• Jeju: 양 (yang) — animal
• Jurchen: honi — animal
• Kabyle: ikerri — animal
• Kalmyk: хөн (xön) — animal
• Kannada: ಕುರಿ (kuri) — animal
• Karelian: lammas — animal
• S'gaw Karen: သိ (thoh) — animal
• Kashmiri: کَٹھ (kaṭh) — animal
• Kashmiri: گٔب (gạb) — animal
• Kashubian: òwca — animal
• Kazakh: қой (qoi) — animal
• Khmer: ចៀម (ciəm) — animal
• Kituba: dimeme — animal
• Komi-Permyak: ыж (yž) — animal
• Kongo: meme — animal
• Korean: 양 (yang) — animal
• Korean: 면양 (myeonyang) — animal
• Middle Korean: 야ᇰ (yang) — animal
• Central Kurdish: مەڕ (merr) — animal
• Northern Kurdish: mî (ewe) — animal
• Northern Kurdish: mih (ewe) — animal
• Northern Kurdish: beran — animal
• Northern Kurdish: pez — animal
• Northern Kurdish: berx — animal
• Northern Kurdish: berindir — animal
• Northern Kurdish: beyindir — animal
• Kyrgyz: кой (koy) — animal
• Ladin: biescia — animal
• Lak: тта (t:a) — animal
• Lao: ແກະ (kæ) — animal
• Latgalian: vuška — animal
• Latin: ovis — animal
• Latvian: aita — animal
• Latvian: avs — animal
• Laz: ჩხური (çxuri) — animal
• Ligurian: pêgoa — animal
• Limburgish: sjaop — animal
• Lingala: mpata — animal
• Lingala: meme — animal
• Lithuanian: avis — animal
• Livonian: lāmbaz — animal
• Louisiana Creole: mouton — animal
• Low German: Schaap — animal
• Low German: Schoop — animal
• Lü: ᦵᦈᧃ (ṫsen) — animal
• Luganda: endiga — animal
• Luhya: likhese — animal
• Lusitanian: oilam — animal
• Lutuv: tuv — animal
• Luwian: 𒄩𒀀𒌑𒄿𒅖 — animal
• Luxembourgish: Schof — animal
• Lycian: 𐊜𐊀𐊇𐊙 (χawã) — animal
• Macedonian: овца (ovca) — animal
• Maguindanao: bili-bili — animal
• Makasar: biri-biri — animal
• Malagasy: besavily — animal
• Malagasy: ondry — animal
• Malay: biri-biri — animal
• Malay: bebiri — animal
• Malay: kambing biri-biri — animal
• Malay: kambing bebiri — animal
• Malay: domba — animal
• Malayalam: ചെമ്മരിയാട് (cemmariyāṭŭ) — animal
• Maltese: nagħġa — animal
• Maltese: nagħaġ — animal
• Manchu: ᡥᠣᠨᡳᠨ (honin) — animal
• Manx: keyrrey — animal
• Māori: pirikahu — animal
• Māori: hipi — animal
• Maranao: bili-bili — animal
• Marathi: मेंढी (meṇḍhī) — animal
• Eastern Mari: шорык (šoryk) — animal
• Western Mari: шарык (šaryk) — animal
• Mazanderani: گاسفند (gâsfand) — animal
• Mazanderani: گسن (gəsan) — animal
• Central Melanau: biri-biri — animal
• Middle English: schep — animal
• Mi'kmaq: jijgluewj — animal
• Mingrelian: შხური (šxuri) — animal
• Mirandese: canhona — animal
• Mirandese: oubeilha — animal
• Mon: သဵု (sɒ) — animal
• Mongolian: хонь (xonʹ) — animal
• Nahuatl: ichcatl — animal
• Classical Nahuatl: ichcatl — animal
• Nanai: хонин (honin) — animal
• Navajo: dibé — animal
• Nengone: mamoe — animal
• Nepali: भेंडा (bheṇḍā) — animal
• Nias: biri-biri — animal
• Nigerian Pidgin: sheep — animal
• Norman: mouton — animal
• Norwegian: sau — animal
• Norwegian: får — animal
• Nupe: kingbàgbà — animal
• Occitan: feda — animal
• Occitan: oelha — animal
• Odia: ମେଣ୍ଢା (meṇḍhā) — animal
• Ojibwe: maanishtaanish — animal
• Church Slavic: овьца (ovĭca) — animal
• Church Slavic: ⱁⰲⱐⱌⰰ (ovĭca) — animal
• Old East Slavic: овьца (ovĭca) — animal
• Old English: scēap — animal
• Old Norse: sauðr — animal
• Old Norse: fær — animal
• Olukumi: àgùntàn — animal
• Oromo: hoolaa — animal
• Ossetian: фыс (fys) — animal
• Pannonian Rusyn: овца (ovca) — animal
• Pashto: مړېيه (lṛeyǝ́) — animal
• Pashto: مېږ (meẓ) — animal
• Pashto: مږه (mᶕɀa) — animal
• Pashto: پسه (pəsᶕ, psᶕ) — animal
• Pashto: ګډه (gǝ́ḍa) — animal
• Dari: گوسْفَنْد (gōsfand) — animal
• Dari: میش (mēš) — animal
• Dari: قُوچ (qūč) — animal
• Iranian Persian: گوسْفَنْد (gusfand) — animal
• Iranian Persian: میش (miš) — animal
• Iranian Persian: قوچ (ġuč) — animal
• Plautdietsch: Schop (nds) — animal
• Polabian: vicĕ — animal
• Polish: owca — animal
• Portuguese: ovelha — animal
• Punic: 𐤔 (s) — animal
• Punjabi: ਭੇਡ (bheḍ) — animal
• Punjabi: بھیڈ (bheḍ) — animal
• Quechua: uwija — animal
• Rohingya: sóol — animal
• Romagnol: pégra — animal
• Romagnol: pégura — animal
• Romani: bakro — animal
• Romani: bakri — animal
• Romanian: oaie — animal
• Romansh: nursa — animal
• Romansh: nuorsa — animal
• Romansh: besch — animal
• Russian: овца́ (ovcá) — animal
• Russian: ове́чка (ovéčka) — animal
• Inari-Sami: savzâ — animal
• Northern Sami: sávza — animal
• Samoan: mamoe — animal
• Sango: walitaba — animal
• Sanskrit: अवि (avi) — animal
• Sanskrit: अविक (avika) — animal
• Santali: ᱵᱷᱤᱰᱤ (bhiḍi) — animal
• Sardinian: brebei — animal
• Sardinian: berbeghe — animal
• Sardinian: barveghe — animal
• Sardinian: chessi — animal
• Sardinian: tzicca — animal
• Sardinian: erveche — animal
• Sardinian: odda — animal
• Sardinian: argasa — animal
• Scots: sheep — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: caora — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: овца — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: ован — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: јагње (lamb) — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: јање — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: ovca — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: ovan — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: jagnje — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: janje — animal
• Seychellois Creole: mouton — animal
• Shan: သူဝ်း (só) — animal
• Sidamo: gerechcho — animal
• Simeulue: biri-biri — animal
• Sindhi: رڍ (rḍh) — animal
• Sinhalese: බැටළුවා (bæṭaḷuwā) — animal
• Slovak: ovca — animal
• Slovene: ôvca — animal
• Slovene: ôven — animal
• Somali: ido — animal
• Lower Sorbian: wójca — animal
• Upper Sorbian: wowca — animal
• Sotho: nku — animal
• Sotho: dinku — animal
• Spanish: carnero — animal
• Spanish: oveja — animal
• Sumerian: 𒇻 (UDU) — animal
• Swahili: kondoo — animal
• Swedish: får — animal
• Tagalog: tupa — animal
• Tagalog: obeha — animal
• Tajik: гӯсфанд (güsfand) — animal
• Talysh: pəs — animal
• Talysh: پس (pas) — animal
• Tamil: செம்மறியாடு (cemmaṟiyāṭu) — animal
• Taos: kʼúona — animal
• Tatar: сарык (sarıq) — animal
• Telugu: గొర్రె (gorre) — animal
• Tetum: bibi malae — animal
• Thai: แกะ (gɛ̀) — animal
• Tibetan: ལུག (lug) — animal
• Tigrinya: በጊዕ (bägiʿ) — animal
• Tocharian B: śaiyye — animal
• Tok Pisin: sipsip — animal
• Tongan: sipi — animal
• Tooro: entaama class 9 — animal
• Tsonga: nyimpfu — animal
• Tswana: nku — animal
• Tumbuka: mberere — animal
• Turkish: koyun — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: قویون (koyun) — animal
• Turkmen: goýun — animal
• Tuvan: хой (xoy) — animal
• Ukrainian: вівця́ (vivcjá) — animal
• Urdu: بھیڑ (bheṛ) — animal
• Urdu: گوسْفَنْد (gosfand) — animal
• Urdu: میش (meś) — animal
• Uyghur: قوي (qoy) — animal
• Uzbek: qoʻy — animal
• Uzbek: goʻsfand — animal
• Venetan: piègora — animal
• Venetan: pégora — animal
• Venetan: pigora — animal
• Venetan: piovra — animal
• Venetan: feda — animal
• Venetan: féda — animal
• Veps: lambaz — animal
• Vietnamese: cừu — animal
• Vilamovian: siöf — animal
• Volapük: jip — animal
• Võro: lammas — animal
• Votic: lammõz — animal
• Walloon: bedot — animal
• Walloon: moton — animal
• Welsh: dafad — animal
• Welsh: defaid — animal
• Woiwurrung: eu-ep — animal
• Wolof: xar mi — animal
• Yakut: хой (qoy) — animal
• Yiddish: שעפּס (sheps) — animal
• Yiddish: שאָף (shof) — animal
• Yoruba: àgùtàn — animal
• Zazaki: mi — animal
• Zazaki: kavır (diq) — animal
• Zhuang: yiengz — animal
• Zulu: imvu — animal
• Czech: ovčan — one who behaves shyly
• Esperanto: timidulo — one who behaves shyly
• Finnish: hiirulainen — one who behaves shyly
• Greek: πρόβατο (próvato) — one who behaves shyly
• Hebrew: שֶׂה (se) — one who behaves shyly
• Hindi: शर्मीला मनुष्य (śarmīlā manuṣya) — one who behaves shyly
• Hungarian: birka — one who behaves shyly
• Indonesian: pemalu — one who behaves shyly
• Interlingua: persona docile — one who behaves shyly
• Interlingua: persona submisse — one who behaves shyly
• Italian: pecora — one who behaves shyly
• Lithuanian: avelė — one who behaves shyly
• Lithuanian: vatnikas — one who behaves shyly
• Iranian Persian: بُزْدِل (bozdel) — one who behaves shyly
• Polish: trusia — one who behaves shyly
• Portuguese: pusilânime — one who behaves shyly
• Portuguese: ovelha — one who behaves shyly
• Russian: ове́чка (ovéčka) — one who behaves shyly
• Russian: ягнёнок (jagnjónok) — one who behaves shyly
• Russian: а́гнец (ágnec) — one who behaves shyly
• Scottish Gaelic: caora — one who behaves shyly
• Spanish: pusilánime — one who behaves shyly
• Spanish: papanatas — one who behaves shyly
• Spanish: borrego — one who behaves shyly
• Telugu: గొర్రె (gorre) — one who behaves shyly