búfalo
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: (Brazil) -ufalu, (Portugal) -ufɐlu
Hyphenation: bú‧fa‧lo
=== Noun ===
búfalo m (plural búfalos, feminine búfala, feminine plural búfalas)
buffalo
=== Further reading ===
“búfalo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“búfalo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbufalo/ [ˈbu.fa.lo]
Rhymes: -ufalo
Syllabification: bú‧fa‧lo
=== Etymology 1 ===
Borrowed from Late Latin bufalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).
==== Noun ====
búfalo m (plural búfalos, feminine búfala, feminine plural búfalas)
buffalo (Old World bovine)
buffalo, the American bison
Synonym: bisonte americano
===== Hyponyms =====
búfalo cafre
búfalo de agua
===== Related terms =====
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Verb ====
búfalo
second-person singular imperative of bufar combined with lo
=== Further reading ===
“búfalo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025