zébu
French, noun/ze.by/
zébu is spelled Z-É-B-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zébu is a French masculine noun meaning “zebu (Bos taurus indicus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bovidé domestique de grande taille caractérisé par une bosse plus ou moins grande au niveau du garrot, un…”.
What does zébu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinezebu (Bos taurus indicus)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bovidé domestique de grande taille caractérisé par une bosse plus ou moins grande au niveau du garrot, un grand fanon et souvent classé comme une sous-espèce du bœuf domestique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of zébu
- zébus plural
- zébue feminine
- zébute feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zébu?
- /ze.by/
- \ze.by\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zébu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zébu in French?
zébu appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).