Today's WOTD is: "vaca" = cow
In
Spanish, the noun "vaca" is a feminine noun
of Latin origin which means cow. The masculine noun is “toro”,
which refers to the English term bull.
A
Spanish word often associated with the noun “vaca”
is “ternera”,
which means calf/
veal.
For more on the word “ternera”,
visit WOTD
"ternera"
.
Some
commonly used expressions containing the words "vaca"
are:
- Carne de vaca (beef);
- Filete de vaca (fillet steak);
- Estar como una vaca (to be very fat);
- Manteca de vaca (butter – from cows milk);
- Ponerse como una vaca (to get very fat);
- Uva de teta de vaca (a grape variety);
- Vaca loca (mad cow);
- Vacas flacas (lean years/ lean time periods);
- Vacas gordas (boom years/ boom time periods);
- Vaca lechera (dairy cow);
- Vaca marina (manatee);
- Vaca sagrada (sacred cow);
Some
examples of the use of the word "vaca"
are:
- Hoy tenemos carne de vaca (today we have beef);
- Hoy tenemos filete de vaca con patatas fritas (today we have fillet steak with chips);
- Ana está como una vaca (Ana is very fat);
- En la nevera hay manteca de vaca (there is butter in the fridge);
- Pedro se ha puesto como una vaca (Pedro has got very fat);
- La enefermedad de las vacas locas (mad cow disease);
- Estamos en época de vacas flacas (we are going through a lean period);
- Estamos en época de vacas gordas (we are going through a boom period);
- Tengo una vaca lechera (I have a dairy milk cow – title of a popular song!);
For
more on the word "vaca",
visit: Wordreference.com/es/en/ Vaca
*NB
'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “vaca”
in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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