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carabao
[ kahr-uh-bah-oh ]
noun
plural carabaos.
- (in the Philippines) the wild or domesticated water buffalo: endangered in the wild.
carabao
/ ˌæəˈɪəʊ /
noun
- another name for water buffalo
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of carabao1
First recorded in 1895–1900; from Philippine Spanish, from Visayan 첹á, apparently from Malay kerbau, perhaps ultimately a borrowing from an Austroasiatic source; compare Khmer ī, also borrowed into Thai as ụ̄
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of carabao1
from Visayan 첹á; compare Malay karbaw
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“To own a jeep is like owning a carabao. A driver depends on it for livelihood much like a farmer depends on the beast,” said Mr. Tabing.
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It also listed caribou instead of carabao as the animal the author rode on her visit.
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A man led a carabao, a type of water buffalo, on one of the few roads that remain accessible.
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“But if you burn the houses, destroy the rice, burn the boats and destroy the carabao, they are as good as dead.”
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When he imagined himself getting squashed by a carabao or a jeepney, it terrified him, even though he wasn’t completely sure what either of those things were.
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