# moo
## English
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /muː/
* (US) IPA: /mu/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː
* Homophone: mu

### Noun

moo (plural moos)
* (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
* (UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.
    You silly moo! What did you do that for?
** 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'

#### Derived terms

* moo-cow
* moo juice
* moolike
* moo-moo

#### Translations
### Verb

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)
* (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

#### Synonyms

* low, boo (rare)

#### Translations
### Interjection

moo
* The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

#### Translations
### See also

* moo goo gai pan
* moo shu

### Anagrams

* OOM, omo-, oom

## Arabela
### Noun

moo
* river

## Galician
### Verb

moo
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer

## Japanese
### Romanization

moo
* Rōmaji transcription of もお

## Lashi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mo˧]
* Hyphenation: moo

### Postposition

moo
* in, on, at
** 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 1:1 [Genesis 1:1]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible], page 2:Xang꞉ shiˮ moo Mangsoo gi mougkhung꞉ yoʼ myidjang ri phainˮ so꞉ toˮ.First, God created heaven and earth.

### References

* Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 23

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.

### Adjective

moo
* comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)

### See also

* smoo

## Murui Huitoto

moo :
| Root | Classifier |
| moo- | — |

### Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɔː]
* Hyphenation: moo

### Noun

moo
* Synonym of mooma
** 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:2, page 5:Judá mɨcorɨ amatɨaɨ mɨcorɨaɨ moo jɨaɨ Jacob mɨcorɨ.The late Juda's late brothers' father was also the late Jacob.
* vocative of mooma

#### Declension
### Root

moo
* father

#### Derived terms

* mooma

### References

* Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
* Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.u/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.u/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.o/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmo.u/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmo.u/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈmo(w).u/
* Hyphenation: mo‧o

### Verb

moo
* first-person singular present indicative of moer

## Sotho
### Adverb

moo
* there; distal demonstrative adverb.

## Swahili
### Noun

moo class ? (plural [please provide])
* leg; foot
    Synonym: mguu

## Ulch
### Noun

moo
* tree, wood

#### References

* Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.