búfalo
Spanish, noun
búfalo is spelled B-Ú-F-A-L-O (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,124th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Búfalo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “buffalo (Old World bovine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular imperative of bufar combined with lo. Without its accent, bufalo is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of bufar combined with lo”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los bóvidos (Bovidae). Poblaba las planicies de toda Norteamérica…”.
What does búfalo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebuffalo (Old World bovine)
- 2
masculinebuffalo, the American bison
verb
- 1
second-person singular imperative of bufar combined with lo
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of bufar combined with lo
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los bóvidos (Bovidae). Poblaba las planicies de toda Norteamérica desde el norte de México, interior de Estados Unidos, y hasta Canadá. Tiene un pelaje de color marrón oscuro durante el invierno, y uno más liviano de color marrón claro durante el verano. Llegan a medir hasta 1,60 m de alto y 3 m de largo, y pesan de 450 a 1350 kg.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of búfalo
- búfalos plural
- búfala feminine
- búfalas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to búfalo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is búfalo in Spanish?
búfalo appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).