🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

송아지

Pronunciation / Transliteration: song-aji

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Calf/kæf/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"송아지가 풀을 뜯고 있어요."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A young bovine animal, especially a domestic cow or bull in its first year.

    "The mother cow stayed close to her newborn calf in the pasture."
  2. 2

    The back portion of the leg below the knee.

    "He felt a sharp pain in his calf while running the marathon."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'calf' originates from Old English 'cealf', which is related to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as Old Norse 'kalfr'. Historically, it referred to a young bovine animal, and over time, it has also come to denote the meat derived from such animals.

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