An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
English-French-Persian

1) Young of a bovine animal. See also → calve, → glacier calving.
2) The fleshy part of a person's → leg below the → knee.

M.E., from O.E. cealf, calf, cognate with M.Du. calf, Ger. Kalb, Gothic kalbo.

1) Gug (Dehxodâ), variant gog "calf;" probably from Proto-Ir. *gao-ka "baby cow, little caow," from *gao- "cow, bull," → cow, + suffix -*ak.
Gusâlé, literally "young in years," from gu, → cow, + sâl, → year.
2) Poviz, from Laki poviz "calf," may be ultimately from *povik, from *pov variant of pâ "leg, → foot" + suffix-ik, → -ics; cf. Ilâmi, Nahâvandi piz "the leg calf."