"Milchkuh" meaning in German

See Milchkuh in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɪlçkuː/ Audio: De-Milchkuh.ogg [Germany, Berlin]
Etymology: From Milch (“milk”) + Kuh (“cow”). Etymology templates: {{ety|de|:af|Milch<t:milk>|Kuh<t:cow>}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₂melǵ-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*meluks", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*meluk", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "miluh", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "milch", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Milch", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" }, { "gloss" : "cow", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "cow", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "cow", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "cow", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "cattle", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*gʷṓws", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*kōz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*kō", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "kuo", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "kuo", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Kuh", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Milchkuh", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" }" data-lang="de" data-title="Milchkuh">, {{compound|de|Milch|Kuh|t1=milk|t2=cow}} Milch (“milk”) + Kuh (“cow”) Head templates: {{de-noun|f,^e}} Milchkuh f (genitive Milchkuh, plural Milchkühe) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f,^e}} Forms: Milchkuh [genitive], Milchkühe [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Milchkuh [nominative, singular], Milchkühe [definite, nominative, plural], Milchkuh [genitive, singular], Milchkühe [definite, genitive, plural], Milchkuh [dative, singular], Milchkühen [dative, definite, plural], Milchkuh [accusative, singular], Milchkühe [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. dairy cow, milk cow Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Milchkuh-de-noun-QdwT8bID Categories (other): German entries with etymon, German entries with incorrect language header, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon, Cattle, Milk Disambiguation of German entries with etymon: 89 11 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 90 10 Disambiguation of Cattle: 88 12 Disambiguation of Milk: 100 0
  2. (figurative) cash cow Tags: feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-Milchkuh-de-noun-1ETkFTYN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Kuhmilch, Kuhstall, Kuhweide, Milchflasche, Milchglas, Milchkanister, Milchkanne, Milchkrug, Milchpreis

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.