búfalo

Learned borrowing from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ufalu, (Portugal) -ufɐlu
• Hyphenation: bú‧fa‧lo

búfalo m (plural búfalos, feminine búfala, feminine plural búfalas)

1. buffalo

• “búfalo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “búfalo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈbufalo/ [ˈbu.fa.lo]

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• Rhymes: -ufalo
• Syllabification: bú‧fa‧lo

Borrowed from Late Latin bufalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).

búfalo m (plural búfalos, feminine búfala, feminine plural búfalas)

1. buffalo (Old World bovine)
2. buffalo, the American bison

   Synonym: bisonte americano

• búfalo cafre
• búfalo de agua

búfalo

1. second-person singular imperative of bufar combined with lo

• “búfalo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025