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cowdung

cowdung noun: the excrement of a cow.

Noun

cowdung (uncountable)

  1. The excrement of a cow.
    • The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.1912, Central Provinces (India), Central Provinces District Gazetteers, page 96

cowdung meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada

cowdung in Tamil

சாணம்

cowdung in Marathi

cowdung
शेण śeṇ

cowdung in Malayalam

cowdung
ചാണകം cāṇakaṁ

cowdung in Kannada

cowdung
ಸಗಣಿ sagaṇi
More languagesFewer languages
cowdung in Sanskrit
छगण chagaṇa

Origin of cowdung

From Middle English cowedong, kowe donge; equivalent to cow + dung.

Questions about cowdung

What does cowdung mean?
Cowdung means the excrement of a cow.
What is cowdung in Tamil?
Cowdung in Tamil is சாணம். See Cowdung meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cowdung?
Cowdung is a noun.

Words near cowdung in the dictionary

  1. Cowdrey
  2. Cowdreys
  3. cowdriosis
  4. Cowdry bodies
  5. Cowdry body
  6. cowdung
  7. Cowe
  8. cowed
  9. cowedly
  10. cowedness
  11. coween

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cowdung (page history and authors); cowdung (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शेण (Marathi) (page history and authors); ചാണകം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಸಗಣಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); छगण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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