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hamster
English
Alternative forms
- hampster
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hamster, from Middle High German hamster, from Old High German hamastra, hamustro (compare Old Saxon hamustra), probably from Old East Slavic ????????? (xom?stor?), ????????? (xom?star?), compound of (1) ?????? (xom?k?, “hamster”) (compare Russian ?????? (xomják), Polish chomik), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *k?mjas (compare Latvian k?mis (“hamster”), Lithuanian kãmas (“rat”), and of (2) Proto-Balto-Slavic *staras (compare Lithuanian stãras (“ground squirrel”).
Alternatively, a borrowing into Slavic from Iranian, compare Avestan ????????????????????????????????????-? (hama?star-, “who throws down (in this case: corn stalks), oppresses”). Displaced earlier term German rat.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?hæm(p)st?/
Noun
hamster (plural hamsters)
- Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
- especially, the golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, and the dwarf hamsters of genus Phodopus, often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
- The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
- especially, the golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, and the dwarf hamsters of genus Phodopus, often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
- Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
Synonyms
- (golden hamster): Syrian hamster
Derived terms
- hamstering
- idea hamster
- rationalization hamster
Translations
Verb
hamster (third-person singular simple present hamsters, present participle hamstering, simple past and past participle hamstered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
- Synonym: stash
- 1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life (page 43)
- Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.
See also
- gerbil
- guinea pig
- mouse
- rat
References
Further reading
- hamster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Golden hamster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- hamster in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
Anagrams
- Amherst, harmest
Danish
Etymology
From German Hamster
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?m?sd??]
Noun
hamster c (singular definite hamsteren, plural indefinite hamstere)
- a hamster
Declension
References
- “hamster” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???mst?r/
- Hyphenation: ham?ster
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Hamster.
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsters, diminutive hamstertje n)
- hamster
Derived terms
- dwerghamster
- goudhamster
- hamsterbal
- hamsteren
- hamstermolen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
hamster
- first-person singular present indicative of hamsteren
- imperative of hamsteren
French
Etymology
From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /am.st??/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /am.st?/
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsters)
- hamster
Further reading
- “hamster” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Verb
hamster
- singular imperative of hamstern
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From German Hamster
Noun
hamster m (definite singular hamsteren, indefinite plural hamstere or hamstre or hamstrer, definite plural hamsterne or hamstrene)
- a hamster
References
- “hamster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Hamster
Noun
hamster m (definite singular hamsteren, indefinite plural hamsterar, definite plural hamsterane)
- a hamster
References
- “hamster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- hámster (uncommon)
- hâmster (rare)
Etymology
From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsters or hamsteres (rare))
- hamster (small, short-tailed European rodent)
Romanian
Etymology
From English hamster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ham.ster/
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsteri)
- hamster
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.
Noun
hamster c
- a hamster
Declension
Related terms
- guldhamster
- hamsterbur
- hamsterhjul
- hamstra
- hamstrare
- hamstring
References
- hamster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Turkish
Etymology
From English hamster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [hamste?]
- Hyphenation: hams?ter
Noun
hamster (definite accusative hamsteri, plural hamsterler)
- (zoology, mammals, rodents) hamster
Declension
hamster From the web:
- what hamsters eat
- what hamster should i get
- what hamsters like to be held
- what hamsters live the longest
- what hamster is the friendliest
- what hamsters need
- what hamsters can eat
- what hamsters can be housed together
quicksand
English
Etymology
From Middle English quyksande, from Old English cwecesand (“quicksand”), equivalent to quick (“living”) +? sand. Cognate with Swedish kvicksand (“quicksand”), Icelandic kviksandur, kviksyndi (“quicksand”). More at quick, sand.
Noun
quicksand (countable and uncountable, plural quicksands)
- Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
- My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
- Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
- The quicksands of youth...
Translations
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