| Vietnamese > English |
| bò |
| 1. n. (zoology) a Southern Yellow zebu (a bovine of the breed Feng cattle) |
| trâu bò - water buffaloes and Southern Yellow zebus |
| nuôi bò - to keep Southern Yellow zebus |
| chăn bò - to tend/graze Southern Yellow zebus |
| thịt bò - Southern Yellow beef |
| 2. n. (zoology, by extension) any bovine from the subtribe Bovina |
| bò sữa - a dairy bovine; cow |
| 3. v. to creep; to crawl (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) |
| rắn bò - a snake crawls |
| lổm ngổm như cua bò - to swagger as a crab crawls |
| 4. v. (botany) to creep (to grow across a surface rather than upwards); to climb gloss, to grow upwards by clinging to something |
| Mướp bò lên giàn. - The loofah climbed the frame. |
| 5. v. to slowly climb |
| Chiếc xe bò lên dốc. - The car climbed up the hill. |
| 6. n. (informal) a unit of measurement for grain volume equivalent to the capacity of a condensed milk can |
| Vay vài bò gạo. - Lend me some condensed milk cans' worth of rice. |