# ox
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑks/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒks/
* Rhymes: -ɒks
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.
Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उक्षन् (ukṣán).

#### Noun

ox (plural oxen or (nonstandard) oxes)
* An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
* Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
** 1934, commentary on the Qur'an (Sura 39 verse 6) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali:
    Here the same four kinds are mentioned ... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.

##### Synonyms

* (castrated male of cattle): bullock, steer

##### Derived terms

* dumb as an ox
* grey ox
* grunting ox
* have the black ox tread on one's foot
* Indian ox
* Japanese ox
* Javan ox
* know someone from Adam's off ox
* musk ox
* musk-ox
* near ox
* off ox
* one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
* ox beetle
* ox bile
* ox-biter
* ox bow
* ox-butt
* ox-eye
* ox-eyed
* ox-eye daisy
* Oxford
* ox gall
* ox is in the ditch
* ox knee
* ox pith
* ox ray
* ox warbler
* pulse ox
* sea-ox
* shrub ox
* strong as an ox
* whose ox is gored
* wild ox

##### Related terms

* aurochs (from *ūrô (“aurochs”) + *uhsô (“ox”))

##### Descendants

* → Abenaki: aksen (via "oxen")
* → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: akson (via "oxen")
* → Unami: aksën (via "oxen")

##### Translations

Afrikaans: os (af)
Akkadian: 𒄞 m (GUD /⁠alpu⁠/)
Armenian: եզ (hy) (ez)
Old Armenian: եզն (ezn)
Asturian: güe (ast)
Avar: оц (oc)
Azerbaijani: öküz (az)
Bashkir: үгеҙ (ügeź)
Basque: idi (eu)
Belarusian: вол m (vol)
Bulgarian: вол (bg) m (vol)
Carpathian Rusyn: віл (vil)
Catalan: bou (ca) m
Chechen: сту (stu)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公牛 (zh) (gōngniú)
Czech: vůl (cs) m
Dutch: os (nl) m
Egyptian: (ngꜣw), (jḥ)
Estonian: härg (et) sg
Finnish: härkä (fi)
French: bœuf (fr) m
Galician: boi (gl) m
Ge'ez: ሶር (sor)
German: Ochse (de) m
Alemannic German: Ochs m
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰 m (auhsa)
Greek: βόδι (el) n (vódi)
Hebrew: שׁוֹר (he) m (šor)
Hindi: बैल (hi) m (bail)
Hungarian: ökör (hu)
Icelandic: uxi (is)
Indonesian: lembu (id)
Ingrian: härkä, hällö
Italian: bue (it) m
Javanese: sapi (jv)
Kaingang: monh
Kazakh: өгіз (ögız)
Kyrgyz: өгүз (ky) (ögüz)
Ladin: bo m
Latin: bōs (la) m
Latvian: vērsis (lv) m
Lithuanian: jautis (lt)
Livonian: ǟrga
Lombard: bö, bœu
Maltese: gendus m
Marathi: बैल m (bail)
Middle English: oxe
Mòcheno: ocks m
Mon: ဂၠဴကၟက်
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шар (mn) (šar), шар үхэр (šar üxer)
Ngazidja Comorian: mfulwa mɓe
North Frisian: Aus (Sylt)
Occitan: buòu (oc) m
Old Javanese: lĕmbu
Old Turkic: 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (üküz /⁠öküz⁠/)
Oromo: sangaa
Ottoman Turkish: اوكوز (öküz), صیغير (sığır)
Pali: goṇa
Pannonian Rusyn: вол m (vol)
Piedmontese: beu m
Polish: wół (pl) m animal
Portuguese: boi (pt) m
Romagnol: bo m
Romani: guruv m
Romanian: bou (ro)
Russian: вол (ru) m (vol)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̑л m, во̑ m
Roman: vȏl (sh) m, vȏ (sh) m
Sherpa: གླང (glang)
Sicilian: voi (scn) m
Sidamo: hando
Slovak: vôl (sk) m
Slovene: vol (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: woł m
Upper Sorbian: woł m
Spanish: buey (es) m
Sumerian: 𒄞 (GUD)
Swedish: oxe (sv) c
Tarifit: afunas m
Tibetan: གླང (glang)
Tigrinya: ብዕራይ (ti) (bəʿray)
Turkmen: öküz
Udi: ус (us)
Ukrainian: віл (uk) (vil)
Urdu: بَیل m (bail)
Uzbek: hoʻkiz (uz)
Vietnamese: bò đực thiến
Welsh: ych (cy) m
Yiddish: אָקס m (oks) :

### Etymology 2

Clipping of oxygen.

#### Alternative forms

* O, O., OX, Ox., Ox, ox., OXY, Oxy, oxy, oxy.

#### Noun

ox (uncountable)
* Abbreviation of oxygen.
** 2020, Carla Perez, 42:40 from the start, in Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain | Eddie Bauer‎, YouTube, Eddie Bauer, archived from the original on 2020-05-22:I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.

##### Coordinate terms

* hydrolox
* kerolox
* methalox

##### Related terms

* gox
* heliox
* lox
* nitrox
* triox

### Anagrams

* XO, xo

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸 (q̊¹ /⁠oq⁠/, “arrow”), Chuvash ухӑ (uh̬ă), from Proto-Turkic *ok.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ox (definite accusative oxu, plural oxlar)
* arrow
* axis
* axle

#### Derived terms

* oxatan
* oxluq

### Further reading

* “ox” in Obastan.com.

## Bonan
### Alternative forms

* ok
* oke (Gansu)

### Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ög-. Cognate to Mongolian өгөх (ögöx) and perhaps Khitan 𘲆 (*û).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɵx/

### Verb

ox
* (Qinghai) to give
    Be Dromada samtexge oxgu tarang erna.I want to give a gift to Droma.

## Epigraphic Mayan
### Alternative forms

* ux

### Numeral

ox
* three

## Lacandon
### Numeral

ox
* three

## Mam
### Numeral

ox
* three

## Middle English
### Noun

ox
* Alternative form of oxe

## Yucatec Maya
### Numeral

ox
* Obsolete spelling of óox.