livestock

See also: live stock and live-stock

English

Alternative forms

live stock, live-stock (dated)

Etymology

From live +‎ stock.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪvstɒk/
Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪvstɑk/

Noun

livestock (usually uncountable, plural livestocks)

Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.
Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.
Much livestock was slaughtered due to high feed prices.
In the West there are local areas with too many livestock.
Women herded small livestocks such as goats and sheep/

Usage notes

The phrase "head of livestock", with head as a collective noun, refers to an individual farm animal without specifying the species.

Translations

farm animals

Arabic: (indefinite) مَوَاشٍ‎ f pl (mawāšin), أَنْعَام‎ (ar) f pl (ʾanʿām), دَوَاجِن‎ f pl (dawājin) (birds)
Egyptian Arabic: مواشي‎ f pl (mawāšī), دواجن‎ f pl (dawāgen)
Moroccan Arabic: بهايم‎ m (bhāyim), كسيبة‎ (ksība)
Armenian: անասուն (hy) pl (anasun)
Asturian: ganáu m
Azerbaijani: mal-qara
Bashkir: мал (mal)
Basque: azienda, abere
Belarusian: бы́дла n (býdla)
Bulgarian: добитък (bg) m (dobitǎk)
Catalan: bestiar (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 家畜 (zh) (jiāchù), 牲畜 (zh) (shēngchù)
Czech: dobytek (cs) m
Dutch: vee (nl) n, veestapel (nl) m
Finnish: karja (fi)
French: cheptel vif m, bétail (fr) m
Galician: gando (gl) m, gado (gl) m
Georgian: პირუტყვი (ṗiruṭq̇vi), საქონელი (sakoneli)
German: Vieh (de) n, Nutztiere (de) n pl, Nutzvieh (de) n
Greek: ζωικό κεφάλαιο n (zoïkó kefálaio)
Ancient: κτῆνη n pl (ktênē)
Hungarian: haszonállat, jószág (hu), lábasjószág (hu), állatállomány (hu)
Icelandic: búfé n
Irish: stoc m
Italian: bestiame (it) m
Japanese: 家畜 (ja) (かちく, kachiku)
Kabuverdianu: limária
Kannada: ದನ (kn) (dana)
Karakalpak: mal
Kazakh: түлік (tülık)
Korean: 가축 (ko) (gachuk)
Latin: pecus n, pecuāria f
Latvian: lopi m pl, mājlopi m pl
Low German: veehtüch
Macedonian: добиток m (dobitok), стока f (stoka)
Malay: ternakan (ms), haiwan ternakan
Malayalam: കന്നുകാലി (ml) (kannukāli)
Manx: sthock m
Maori: kararehe (used in the plural)
Middle English: bestaile
Navajo: naaldlooshii, biłį́į́ʼ, ałį́į́ʼ
Norwegian: husdyr (no) n, fe (no) n
Old English: feoh n
Old Saxon: fehu
Polish: dobytek (pl) m, inwentarz (pl) m
Portuguese: gado (pt) m, pecuária (pt)
Romanian: șeptel (ro) n, vite (cirezi sau turme)
Russian: поголо́вье (ru) n (pogolóvʹje), поголо́вье скота́ n (pogolóvʹje skotá), скоти́на (ru) f (skotína), скот (ru) m (skot)
Slovak: dobytok (sk) m
Slovene: živina (sl) f
Spanish: ganado (es) m
Swedish: boskap (sv) c
Tagalog: paghahayupan
Turkish: enam (tr), mal (tr), çiftlik hayvanları (tr), besi hayvanları
Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎅𐎎𐎚 (bhmt)
Ukrainian: худо́ба (uk) f (xudóba), скоти́на f (skotýna)
Vietnamese: thú nuôi (獸𩟼), gia súc (vi) (家畜)
Walloon: bisteu (wa) m
Welsh: da byw m
Yiddish: פֿיך‎ n (fikh)