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 (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪvstɑk/

Noun

livestock (usually uncountable, plural livestocks)

1. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

   Coordinate term: stock animal

   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.

   • 2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297:

     These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.

Usage notes

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

Antonyms

• deadstock

Derived terms

• industrial livestock production
• livestock car
• livestock crush
• livestock unit

 

Translations

farm animals

• Arabic: (indefinite) مَوَاشٍ f pl (mawāšin), أَنْعَام (ar) f pl (ʔanʕām), 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)
• Bhojpuri: पशुधन (paśudhan)
• 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 (ka) (sakoneli)
• German: Vieh (de) n, Nutztiere (de) n pl, Nutzvieh (de) n
• Greek: ζωικό κεφάλαιο n (zoïkó kefálaio)

  Ancient: κτῆνη n pl (ktênē)

• Hindi: पशुधन (paśudhan)
• Hungarian: haszonállat (hu), 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 (mk) 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
• 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: palahayupan
• Turkish: enam (tr), mal (tr), çiftlik hayvanları (tr), besi hayvanları
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎅𐎎𐎚 (bhmt)
• Ukrainian: худо́ба (uk) f (xudóba), скоти́на f (skotýna)
• Uyghur: ئۇلاغ (ulagh)
• Vietnamese: thú nuôi (獸𩟼), gia súc (vi) (家畜)
• Walloon: bisteu (wa) m
• Welsh: da byw m
• Yiddish: פֿיך n (fikh)

See also

• breeding
• cattle