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Zoo

See also: zoo, zôo, zōo, zo'o, zoo-, -zoo, and zoö-

German

Noun

Zoo m ‎(genitive Zoos, plural Zoos)

Declension

Declension of Zoo

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zoo	die	Zoos
genitive	eines	des	Zoos	der	Zoos
dative	einem	dem	Zoo	den	Zoos
accusative	einen	den	Zoo	die	Zoos

Synonyms

Tiergarten
Tierpark
Tierschau
zoologischer Garten

Hypernyms

Park

Hyponyms

Virenzoo

Derived terms

Zooarchitektur
Zoobesuch
Zoobiologie
Zoodirektor
Zooführer
Zoohaltung
Zoohandlung
Zooplankton

Luxembourgish

Noun

Zoo m ‎(plural Zooen)

zoo

See also: Zoo, zôo, zōo, zoo-, -zoo, zo'o, zoö-, and Appendix:Variations of "zu"

English

Noun

zoo ‎(plural zoos)

A park where live animals are exhibited.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
  The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
(figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.‎

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Translations

park where live animals are exhibited

Afrikaans: dieretuin
Albanian: kopësht zoologjik m
Arabic: حَدِيقَة اَلْحَيَوَانَات f ‎(ḥadīqat al-ḥayawānāt)
Egyptian Arabic: جنينة الحيوانات f ‎(genenet el ħayawanat)
Armenian: (formal) կենդանաբանական այգի ‎(kendanabanakan aygi), (informal) գազանանոց (hy) ‎(gazananocʿ)
Asturian: zoolóxicu m
Azeri: zoologiya parkı
Belarusian: заапа́рк m ‎(zaapárk), заалагічны парк m ‎(zaalahičny park)
Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা (bn) ‎(ciŗiẏôkhana)
Bulgarian: зоопа́рк m ‎(zoopárk), зоологи́ческа гради́на f ‎(zoologíčeska gradína)
Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန်ရုံ (my) ‎(ti.racchanrum)
Catalan: zoològic m
Central Melanau: zoo
Cherokee: ᏧᎾᏓᎴᎸᏓᏧᏂᏙᏗ ‎(tsunadalelvdatsunidodi)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 動物園, 动物园 ‎(dung⁶ mat⁶ jyun⁴)

Mandarin: 動物園 (zh), 动物园 (zh) ‎(dòngwùyuán)
Cornish: milva f
Czech: zoo (cs) f, zoologická zahrada (cs) f
Danish: zoo c, zoologisk have c
Dutch: dierentuin (nl), zoo (nl)
Erzya: ракшапире ‎(rakšapire)
Esperanto: zoo, bestoĝardeno, zoologia ĝardeno
Estonian: loomaaed
Finnish: eläintarha (fi)
French: zoo (fr) m
Galician: zoolóxico m, parque zoolóxico m, zoo (gl) m
Georgian: ზოოპარკი (ka) ‎(zooṗarḳi)
German: Zoo (de) m, Tiergarten (de) m, Tierpark (de) m
Greek: ζωολογικός κήπος (el) m ‎(zoologikós kípos)
Hebrew: גַּן חַיּוֹת (he) m ‎(gan khayót), גן זואולוגי m ‎(gan zo'ológi)
Hindi: चिड़ियाघर (hi) m ‎(ciṛiyāghar)
Hungarian: állatkert (hu)
Icelandic: dýragarður (is) m
Ido: zoo (io), menajerio (io), animalparko
Indonesian: kebun binatang (id)
Irish: zú (ga) m, gairdín ainmhithe m
Italian: zoo (it) m
Japanese: 動物園 (ja) ‎(どうぶつえん, dōbutsuen)
Kazakh: хайуанаттар бағы ‎(xaywanattar bağı)

Khmer: សួនសត្វ ‎(suǝn sat), ឧទ្យានសត្វ ‎(ʔuttyien sat)
Korean: 동물원 (ko) ‎(dongmurwon), (動物園 (ko))
Kyrgyz: ажайыпкана (ky) ‎(acayıpkana)
Lao: ສວນສັດ (lo) ‎(sūan sat)
Latvian: zooloģiskais dārzs m
Lithuanian: zoologijos sodas m
Macedonian: зоолошка градина f ‎(zoološka gradina)
Malay: zoo (ms), kebun binatang, taman haiwan
Maltese: żu m
Mongolian: амьтны хүрээлэн ‎(amʹtny hüreelen)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: dyrehage m

Nynorsk: dyrehage m
Persian: باغ وحش (fa) ‎(bâğ-e vahš)
Polish: zoo (pl) n, ogród zoologiczny (pl) m
Portuguese: zôo (pt) m, zoológico (pt) m, jardim zoológico m
Romanian: zoo (ro) f, parc zoologic (ro) n, grădină zoologică (ro) f, zooparc (ro) n
Russian: зоопа́рк (ru) m ‎(zoopárk), зоологи́ческий сад m ‎(zoologíčeskij sad), зооса́д (ru) m ‎(zoosád), звери́нец (ru) m ‎(zverínec) (menagerie)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: зоолошки врт m, зверињак m

Roman: zoološki vrt m, zverinjak m
Shan: သူၼ်သတ်း
Slovak: zoologická záhrada f, zoo m
Slovene: živalski vrt m
Spanish: zoo (es) m, jardín zoo m, zoológico (es) m
Swahili:
Swedish: zoo (sv) n, djurpark (sv) c
Tajik: боғи ҳайвонот ‎(boġi hayvonot)
Tamil:
Telugu: జంతుప్రదర్శనశాల ‎(jaṃtupradarśanaśāla)
Thai: สวนสัตว์ ‎(sǔan sàt)
Turkish: hayvanat bahçesi (tr)
Turkmen: haýwanat bagy
Ukrainian: зоопа́рк m ‎(zoopárk)
Urdu: چڑیاگھر m ‎(ciṛiyāghar)
Uzbek: hayvonot bogʻi
Vietnamese: thảo cầm viên, sở thú (vi)
Welsh: sw m
Yiddish: זאָאָגאָרטן m ‎(zoogortn), זאָאָלאָגישער גאָרטן m ‎(zoologisher gortn), זאָאָפּאַרק m ‎(zoopark)

Czech

Noun

zoo f

Synonyms

zoologická zahrada f

Danish

Etymology

From English zoo

Noun

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)

a zoo, zoological garden

Synonyms

zoologisk have

Dutch

Etymology 1

Noun

zoo m ‎(plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)

Synonyms

dierentuin, diergaarde

Etymology 2

Adverb

zoo

Archaic spelling of zo.

Esperanto

Etymology

Short for zoologia ĝardeno.

Noun

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

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zo/
IPA^(key): /zo.o/

Noun

zoo m ‎(plural zoos)

Related terms

zoologique

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdzɔ.o/

Noun

zoo m ‎(invariable)

Related terms

giardino zoologico

Malay

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zu/
Rhymes: -zu, -u

Noun

zoo

zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

Synonyms

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [z̪ɔː]

Noun

zoo n ‎(indeclinable)

Synonyms

ogród zoologiczny

Portuguese

Verb

zoo

first-person singular (eu) present indicative of zoar

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θo/ (Spain)
IPA^(key): /so/ (Latin America)

Noun

zoo m ‎(plural zoos)

Related terms

zoológico

White Hmong

Adjective

zoo

good

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Definition 2024

Zoo

Zoo

German

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Luxembourgish

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zoo

zoo

English

Noun

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Czech

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Danish

Etymology

Noun

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Dutch

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Adverb

Esperanto

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Noun

French

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Noun

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Italian

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Malay

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Noun

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Polish

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White Hmong

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