# zoo
## Translingual
### Symbol

zoo
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec terms

## English
### Etymology

Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology. Sense 5: clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zuː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː

### Noun

zoo (plural zoos)
* A park where live animals are exhibited.
    The London Zoo was built in 1828.
** 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
* (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
    The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
* (informal, figuratively) A large and varied collection of something.
** 1993, Neil P. Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock's Fright and Delight, page xii:After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking).
** 2001, Antonino Zichichi, Theory and Experiment Heading for New Physics:From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc.
** 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:But powerful as the quark model and the electroweak theory were in describing the zoo of subatomic particles, this still left a huge gap.
* (US, military, slang) The jungle.
** 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
    I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
* (slang) Clipping of zoophile.
** 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering:Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.
** 2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, page 129:Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]
** (by extension, uncountable) Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.

#### Derived terms

* from goo to you by way of the zoo
* human zoo
* like feeding time at the zoo
* morning zoo
* particle zoo
* petting zoo
* safari zoo
* who's who in the zoo
* zoo animal
* zoo blot
* zoo break
* zoo format
* zoo plane

#### Related terms

* zoo-
* zooey
* zooish
* zoolike
* zoologist
* zoology

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈzoː]

### Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)
* Clipping of zoològic.
** 2016 November 9, “'Midnight Cowboy'”, in El Periódico‎:O sigui, els sorolls del zoo de demòcrates i republicans.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈzoo]

### Noun

zoo f or n
* zoo
    Synonym: zoologická zahrada

#### Declension

Normally indeclinable. When neuter, can be declined as follows, although it is dated:

### Further reading

* “zoo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “zoo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “zoo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

From English zoo.

### Noun

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)
* a zoo, zoological garden

#### Synonyms

* zoologisk have

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* (Belgium) IPA: /zoː/
* (Netherlands) IPA: /zuː/, /zoː/
* Hyphenation: zoo
* Rhymes: -oː

### Etymology 1

Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.

#### Noun

zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)
* (chiefly Belgium) zoo

##### Synonyms

* dierentuin, diergaarde

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adverb

zoo
* Archaic spelling of zo.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Clipping of zoologia ĝardeno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈzoo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oo
* Hyphenation: zo‧o

### Noun

zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)
* (zoology) zoo

#### Synonyms

* bestoĝardeno

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zo/, /zo.o/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)
* zoo

#### Related terms

* zoologique

### Further reading

* “zoo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Verb

zoo
* first-person singular present indicative of zoar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈd͡zɔ.o/
** Rhymes: -ɔo
** Hyphenation: zò‧o
* (especially Rome) IPA: $^*$/ˈd͡zɔ/$^*$
** Rhymes: -ɔ

### Noun

zoo m (invariable)
* zoo

#### Related terms

* giardino zoologico

## Malay
### Etymology

From English zoo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zu/
* Rhymes: -zu, -u

### Noun

zoo (Jawi spelling زو, plural zoo-zoo, informal 1st possessive zooku, 2nd possessive zoomu, 3rd possessive zoonya)
* zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)
** 2013 February 13, “Gorilla lahirkan anak di zoo Moscow [Gorilla gives birth to offspring at Moscow Zoo]”, in Astro Awani‎:Jurucakap zoo, Elena Mendosa memberitahu pembiakan gorilla di Zoo Moscow merupakan sesuatu yang unik dan berharap proses berkenaan akan berterusan.A zoo spokeswoman, Elena Mendosa said that gorilla breeding at the Moscow Zoo is something unique and hoped the process would continue.

#### Synonyms

* kebun binatang
* taman haiwan

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zoo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɔ.ɔ/, (colloquial) /ˈzɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɔ, -ɔ
* Syllabification: zo‧o, zoo

### Noun

zoo n (indeclinable)
* (zoology) nature preserve, zoo, zoological garden, zoological park
    Synonyms: ogród zoologiczny, zoolog, zwierzyniec

#### Derived terms

* antropozoonoza
* zoonoza

### Further reading

* zoo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* zoo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* zôo (Brazil, superseded)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.u/, /ˈzo(w)/ [ˈzo(ʊ̯)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.u/, /ˈzo(w)/ [ˈzo(ʊ̯)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.o/, /ˈzo(w)/ [ˈzo(ʊ̯)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈzwu/, /ˈzu/
* Rhymes: -u, -ou

#### Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)
* Clipping of jardim zoológico.
    Synonym: (Brazil) zoológico

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.u/, /ˈzow/ [ˈzoʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.u/, /ˈzow/ [ˈzoʊ̯]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.o/, /ˈzow/ [ˈzoʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈzo.u/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈzo.u/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈzo(w).u/
* Rhymes: -ou
* Hyphenation: zo‧o

#### Verb

zoo
* first-person singular present indicative of zoar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French zoo.

### Noun

zoo n (uncountable)
* zoo

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθoo/ [ˈθo.o]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsoo/ [ˈso.o]
* Rhymes: -oo
* Syllabification: zo‧o

### Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)
* zoo

#### Related terms

* zoológico

### Further reading

* “zoo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suː/
* Homophone: so

### Noun

zoo n
* a zoo
    Synonym: djurpark
    Det fanns exotiska djur på zootThere were exotic animals at the zoo

#### Related terms

* zoo-

#### See also

* menageri

### References

* zoo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔrɔŋH (“good”), possibly borrowed from Old Chinese 良 (*raŋ, “good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʐɒ̃˧/

### Adjective

zoo
* good, fair, fine, well

#### Derived terms

* mus zoo
* nyob zoo

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25

## Yola
### Interjection

zoo
* Alternative form of zo
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:Zoo wough aul vell a-danceen; earch bye gae a poageSo we all fell a-dancing; each boy gave a kiss
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:Zoo wough kisth, an wough parthet; earch man took his laave;So we kissed and we parted, each man took his leave;
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:Zoo wough aul returnth hime, contented an gaay,So we all returned home, contented and gay,

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 82