carabao
noun
(in the Philippines) the wild or domesticated water buffalo: endangered in the wild.
carabaos
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pluralof carabao.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The peasants preferred to take only 55% if the landlords would provide tools and carabaos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Small farmers have no tools; most of their clumsy carabaos, the Filipinos' animal of all work, had been slaughtered for food.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sixty-two years ago Gregorio Aglipay was a peasant boy who drove his grandfather's carabaos through the main streets of Batac.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ll be a herdsman, mama, and take good care of the cows and carabaos, and make my master love me; then perhaps he’ll let us have a cow to milk: Crispin loves milk.
From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
Meanwhile the children build extensive palaces of pebbles on the bank; the carabaos, up to their noses in the river, dream in the refreshing shade of overhanging trees.
From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert
