zébu

zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

Etymology tree Classical Tibetan མཛོ (mdzo) Classical Tibetan པོ (po) Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po) Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po)bor.? French zébu Uncertain. Possibilities include: * From Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male offspring of a female cow and yak bull”), from Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po), from མཛོ (mdzo, “cow–yak hybrid”) + པོ (po, male suffix); or * From a similar Tibeto-Burman source, such as Tibetan ཟེ་བ (ze ba, “zebu or camel's hump”).