Sheep

Noun

 * 1) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
 * 2) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

Verbs for Sheep
auction—; breed—; clip—; confine—; cross —; domesticate—; fleece—; herd—; market —; shear—; shelter—; slaughter—; tend —; —bleat; —browse; —climb; —graze; — huddle; —pasture; —produce; —ramble; — roam; —secrete; —straggle; —stray; — taint; —flock.

Thesaurus
Babbitt, Columbia, Karakul, Kerry Hill, Lincoln, Merino, Middle American, Panama, Philistine, Romeldale, Romney, Suffolk, Wensleydale, anal character, ape, assembly, bellwether, bourgeois, brethren, burgher, churchgoers, class, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, congregation, conventionalist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, ewe, ewe lamb, faker, flock, fold, forger, formalist, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, jumbuck, laity, lamb, lambkin, laymen, methodologist, middle-class type, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, minyan, mocker, mockingbird, model child, monkey, mutton, nonclerics, nonordained persons, organization man, parish, parishioners, parrot, pedant, people, perfectionist, phony, plagiarist, plastic person, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, precisian, precisianist, ram, seculars, simulator, society, square, teenybopper, teg, trimmer, tup, wether, yeanling, yes-man

Etymology
sceap:, from (compare  skiep:',  schaap:,  Schaf:), from  (compare  kjappi:,  dialectal Kippe:), ultimately from Sarmato-Scythian (compare  چپش:, Ossetian cæw 'goat'); akin to  c(j)ap, sqap 'he-goat',  kapŭ.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:sheep

Derived terms

 * black sheep
 * sheepdog
 * sheepfold
 * sheepish
 * sheepskin
 * shoop

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: (xarūf)
 * Armenian: ոչխար (vočxar)
 * Azeri: qoyun
 * Baluchi: (mēš)
 * Basque: ardi
 * Belarusian: авечка
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ovca, ovan , jagnje (lamb)
 * Breton:, , dañvadez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chiricahua: dibéhé
 * Crimean Tatar: qoy
 * Croatian: ovca, ovan , janje (lamb)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: piore, fede
 * Galician:
 * Gamilaraay: thimba
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: ovecha
 * Hebrew: כֶּבֶשׂ (kéves), כבשים (kevesím)
 * Hindi: भेड़ (bhe.r), मेष (meš)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, , , (collective),  (collective),  (ewe)
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Acehnese:
 * Interlingua: ove
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 羊 (ひつじ, hitsují)
 * Jicarilla: dibé
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 양 (yang), 면양 (myeonyang)
 * Kurdish: mî, mih , beran , pez , berx , berindir , beyindir ,
 * Ladin: biescia
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, avs
 * Lithuanian:


 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luhya: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Nahuatl: ichcatl
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian:, , قوچ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rohingya:
 * Romani: bakri, bakro
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: nursa
 * Russian:
 * Sami: sávza
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: brebei, barveghe, chessi, tzicca
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, , (lamb)
 * Roman: ovca, ovan , jagnje (lamb)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: k’úona
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: (gorre)
 * Thai: แกะ (kae)
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: goýun
 * Ukrainian: вівця (vivtsja)
 * Upper Sorbian: wowca
 * Urdu: (bhe.r),  (gosfand) ,  (meš)
 * Uyghur: قوي
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: jip,  hijip,  jijip,  jipül,  hijipül,  jijipül,  hojip,  jojip,  hojipül,  jojipül
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: skiep
 * Western Apache: dibéé, dobéé, dibéłįį, bee’é, mee’é, mę’é


 * Esperanto: ŝafoj, timidulo (plural: timiduloj)
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: pemalu
 * Interlingua: persona docile, persona submisse
 * Italian:


 * Lithuanian: avelė
 * Persian: بزدل
 * Portuguese: pessoa submissa, pusilânime
 * Scottish Gaelic: caora
 * Spanish: pusilánime, papanatas
 * Telugu: గొర్రె (gorre)

Anagrams

 * Ephes.
 * HEPES