zoo

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Translingual

Symbol

zoo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec terms

English

Etymology

Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology. Senses 5 and 6: clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

zoo (plural zoos)

1. A park where live animals are exhibited.
2. (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

3. (informal, figuratively) A large and varied collection of something.
4. (US, military, slang) The jungle.
   • 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)

     I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.

5. (slang) Clipping of zoophile.
   1. (slang, by extension, uncountable) Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.

Derived terms

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Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈzoː]

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoològic.

Further reading

• “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzoo]

Noun

zoo f or n

1. zoo

   Synonym: zoologická zahrada

Declension

Normally indeclinable. When neuter, can be declined as follows, although it is dated:

Further reading

• “zoo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “zoo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “zoo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

From English zoo.

Noun

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)

1. a zoo, zoological garden

Synonyms

• zoologisk have

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /zoː/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /zuː/, /zoː/
• Hyphenation: zoo
• Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)

1. (chiefly Belgium) zoo

Synonyms

• dierentuin, diergaarde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adverb

zoo

1. Archaic spelling of zo.

Esperanto

Etymology

Clipping of zoologia ĝardeno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzoo]
• Rhymes: -oo
• Hyphenation: zo‧o

Noun

zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)

1. (zoology) zoo

Synonyms

• bestoĝardeno

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo/, /zo.o/

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoologique

Further reading

• “zoo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

zoo

1. first-person singular present indicative of zoar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɔ.o/
  • Rhymes: -ɔo
  • Hyphenation: zò‧o
• (especially Rome) IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɔ/^*
  • Rhymes: -ɔ

Noun

zoo m (invariable)

1. zoo

Related terms

• giardino zoologico

Malay

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu/
• Rhymes: -zu, -u

Noun

zoo (Jawi spelling زو, plural zoo-zoo, informal 1st possessive zooku, 2nd possessive zoomu, 3rd possessive zoonya)

1. zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

Synonyms

• kebun binatang
• taman haiwan

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔ.ɔ/, (colloquial) /ˈzɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɔ, -ɔ
• Syllabification: zo‧o, zoo

Noun

zoo n (indeclinable)

1. (zoology) nature preserve, zoo, zoological garden, zoological park

   Synonyms: ogród zoologiczny, zoolog, zwierzyniec

Derived terms

Further reading

• zoo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zoo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• zôo (Brazil, superseded)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u, -ou

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of jardim zoológico.

   Synonym: (Brazil) zoológico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ou
• Hyphenation: zo‧o

Verb

zoo

1. first-person singular present indicative of zoar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French zoo.

Noun

zoo n (uncountable)

1. zoo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθoo/ [ˈθo.o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsoo/ [ˈso.o]
• Rhymes: -oo
• Syllabification: zo‧o

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

Further reading

• “zoo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suː/
• Homophone: so

Noun

zoo n

1. a zoo

   Synonym: djurpark

Declension

Related terms

• zoo-

See also

• menageri

References

• zoo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔrɔŋH (“good”), possibly borrowed from Old Chinese 良 (*raŋ, “good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʐɒ̃˧/

Adjective

zoo

1. good, fair, fine, well

Derived terms

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

Yola

Interjection

zoo

1. Alternative form of zo

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 82