(すいぎゅう)

すいぎゅう
noun
water buffalo
1. water buffalo
A large domesticated bovine with broad, curved horns, kept in warm regions of Asia for farm work, milk, and meat.
水牛(すいぎゅう)()んぼを(ある)いている。
A water buffalo is walking through the rice field.
その地方(ちほう)では(いま)水牛(すいぎゅう)(はたけ)(たがや)す。
In that region they still plow the fields with water buffalo.
水牛(すいぎゅう)(ちち)から(つく)るチーズは、独特(どくとく)濃厚(のうこう)(あじ)がする。
Cheese made from water buffalo milk has a distinctively rich flavor.

A large bovine with sweeping curved horns, raised across warm parts of Asia for farm labor, milk, and meat. Its horn is also used for crafts such as 印鑑(いんかん) (personal seals).

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 水牛(すいぎゅう)(つの): water buffalo horn
  • 水牛(すいぎゅう)(ちち): water buffalo milk
  • 水牛(すいぎゅう)()う: to keep water buffalo

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • 野牛(やぎゅう): wild ox; bison — a wild bovine, not domesticated
  • (うし): cow; cattle — the general word for domestic cattle