үхэр

From Proto-Mongolic *hüker, from Proto-Turkic *öküŕ, compare Daur xukur and Turkish öküz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuxer̥/
• Syllabification: ү‧хэр (2 syllables)

үхэр • (üxer) (Mongolian spelling ᠦᠬᠡᠷ (üker))

1. cow, ox (domestic bovine, bovine used as a beast of burden)
2. (astrology) a year of the Ox (the second year under the twelve-year lunar cycle.)
3. (in compounds) big, huge

• үнээ (ünee, “cow”)
• бух (bux, “bull”)
• эр үхэр (er üxer, “steer”)
• бяруу (bjaruu, “two-year-old calf”)