Noun: buffalo
| Singular | buffalo |
| Plural | buffaloes; buffalos; buffalo |
Sample Sentences
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"It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die." [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously. [1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims / And to the buffaloes who once ruled the plain / Like the vultures / Circling beneath the dark clouds / Looking for the rain / Well, they've been looking for the rain [1974, Gil Scott-Heron, “Winter in America”, in Winter in America:]
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The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas. [2015, “Arunachal Pradesh”, in H. M. Bareh, editor, Encyclopaedia Of North-East India, 1st edition, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2022, page 72:]
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle. See: Spanish Nouns '
búfalo', Latin Nouns '
būbalus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βούβαλος'.
Verbs referencing "buffalo"
Finnish Nouns
buffalo.