dzho

plural dzhos

1. alternativeAlternative form of dzo.

   Yaks can be crossed with cattle to produce animals better suited to lower elevations. This animal is called a dzho and looks like a cow with long hair.

   2001, Barbara A. Weightman, Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia, page 211

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   “A dzho has a yak for a father and a cow for a mother. Or maybe it's the other way round. I don't know. Only dzhos know. To which I say, dzho what? Ho, ho! Another good joke, Dzho what?”

   2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, page 220

   If a household had a house with six pillars, a piece of land that needed 12 Mongolian grams of seed to sow, a total of 6 members including husband, wife, children and servants, and three kinds of livestock including pack animals, farm animals, and milk animals (pack animals referred to horses and donkeys; farm animals referred to dzho, yak and cattle; milk animals referred to female cattle and dzho.), goat, sheep and 24 other livestock with black and whiter hairs. Such household was called one hordud (Mongolian household). 50 Mongolian households were one Rtamgo(horse head)^([sic]), and two Rtamgo was one Baihu (one hundred households); 10 Baihu was one Chenhu; 10 Chenhu was one Trikor. Every Trikor established according to this system should have four Chenhu as Lhade and six Chenhu as Mide.

   2025, Chapel Tseten Phuntsog 恰白·次旦平措, Concise Edition of a General History of Tibet 西藏简明通史, page unknown