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Proto-West Germanic *hōf
Old English hōf
Middle English hof
English hoof
Inherited from Middle English hof, houf, houve, hove, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).
Hooves of a horse.
- The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
[…] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with _Rome_’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
- (slang, derogatory) The human foot.
Get your hooves off me!- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 110:
He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 110:
- (geometry, dated) An ungula.
- The heel of a loaf of bread.
tip of a toe of ungulates
- Albanian: thundër (sq) f
- Arabic: حافِر m (ḥāfir), ظِلْف m (ẓilf), خُفّ m (ḵuff)
Egyptian Arabic: حافر m (ḥāfir) - Armenian: սմբակ (hy) (smbak), կճղակ (hy) (kčġak), պճեղ (hy) (pčeġ)
- Asturian: pezuña f
- Avestan: 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa)
- Azerbaijani: dırnaq (az)
- Baluchi: سرنب (surunb), سرمب (surumb), سرم (surum)
- Bashkir: тояҡ (toyaq)
- Basque: apo, apatx
- Bats: ჭალკო̆ (č̣alḳŏ)
- Belarusian: капы́т m (kapýt)
- Bengali: খুর (bn) (khur)
- Bulgarian: копи́то (bg) n (kopíto)
- Burmese: ခွာ (my) (hkwa)
- Buryat: туруун (turuun)
- Catalan: peülla (ca) f
- Chechen: берг (berg)
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 蹄 (zh) (tí), 蹢 (zh) (dí) - Chukchi: яйпыԓгын (jajpyḷgyn), ейпыт pl (ejpyt)
- Chuvash: чӗрне (čĕrne)
- Crimean Tatar: tuyaq
- Czech: kopyto (cs) n
- Danish: hov c
- Dongxiang: ghimusun
- Dutch: hoef (nl) m
- Egyptian: (wḥmt f)
- Esperanto: hufo
- Estonian: kabi
- Faroese: hógvur m
- Finnish: kavio (fi), sorkka (fi) (hoof of artiodactyls)
- French: sabot (fr) m
- Galician: pesuño m, presuño m, uña (gl) f, pezuño m, vaso (gl) m
- Georgian: ჩლიქი (čliki)
- German: Huf (de) m
- Greek: οπλή (el) f (oplí)
Ancient Greek: ὁπλή f (hoplḗ) - Haitian Creole: zago
- Hawaiian: maiʻao
- Hebrew: פַּרְסָה (he) f (parsá)
- Hindi: खुर (hi) m (khur)
- Hungarian: pata (hu)
- Icelandic: hófur (is) m, klauf f
- Indonesian: kuku (id)
- Irish: crúb f
- Italian: zoccolo (it) m
- Japanese: 蹄 (ja) (ひづめ, hizume)
- Kalmyk: турун (turun)
- Karachay-Balkar: туякъ (tuyaq)
- Kazakh: тұяқ (tūäq)
- Khmer: ក្រចក (km) (krɑcɑɑk) (also :nail", "claw")
- Korean: 굽 (ko) (gup), 발굽 (balgup)
- Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سم (sim)
Northern Kurdish: sim (ku) m - Kyrgyz: туяк (ky) (tuyak)
- Lao: ກີບ (lo) (kīp)
- Latin: ungula f
- Latvian: nags (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kanopa f
- Macedonian: копито n (kopito)
- Malay: telapuk
- Malayalam: കുളമ്പ് (ml) (kuḷampŭ)
- Manchu: ᡶᠠᡨᡥᠠ (fatha)
- Māori: pāua, kuku
- Mingrelian: ჩირქე (čirke)
- Miwok:
Central Sierra Miwok: háṭ·e·- - Mongolian:
Cyrillic: туурай (mn) (tuuraj) - Norman: chabot m, chavette f, cône du pied (Sark)
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: hov m
Nynorsk: hov m or f - Occitan: bata (oc) f
- Old English: hōf m
- Old Norse: hófr m
- Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰆𐰖𐰆𐰍 (t¹uy¹uǧ)
- Ossetian: сӕфтӕг (sæftæg)
- Pali: sapha m
- Pannonian Rusyn: копито n (kopito)
- Pashto: سوه (ps) f (swa), څوه f (cwa)
- Persian:
Iranian Persian: سُم (som), سَپَل (sapal) - Plautdietsch: Hooft n
- Polish: kopyto (pl) n
- Portuguese: casco (pt) m, pata (pt) f, pezunho (pt) m
- Quechua: sillu
- Romanian: copită (ro) f
- Russian: копы́то (ru) n (kopýto)
- Sanskrit: शफ (sa) m (śapha)
- Scottish Gaelic: ladhar m, ìne f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̀пито n
Latin: kòpito (sh) n - Shor: туйғақ
- Sinhalese: කුර (si) ? (kura)
- Slovak: kopyto n
- Slovene: kopíto (sl) n
- Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kopyto n
Upper Sorbian: kopyto n - Spanish: pezuña (es) f, casco (es) m
- Sundanese: talapok
- Swahili: ukwato
- Swedish: hov (sv) c, klöv (sv) c
- Tajik: сум (sum)
- Tamil: குளம்பு (ta) (kuḷampu)
- Taos: kòwmą̏celéna
- Tatar: тояк (tt) (toyaq)
- Telugu: గిట్ట (te) (giṭṭa)
- Thai: กีบ (th) (gìip)
- Tibetan: རྨིག་པ (rmig pa)
- Turkish: tırnak (tr) (lit., nail; to express the hoof of a particular animal, give the animal's name first, then tırnağı: e.g., cow hoof = inek tırnağı), toynak (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: طویناق (toynaq), طرناق (tırnaq) - Turkmen: toýnak
- Tuvan: дуюг (duyug)
- Ukrainian: копи́то n (kopýto), копито́ n (kopytó)
- Urdu: کُھر m (khur)
- Uyghur: تۇياق (ug) (tuyaq)
- Uzbek: tuyoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: guốc (vi), móng (vi)
- Volapük: saf (vo)
- Welsh: carn (cy) m
- Yakut: туйах (tuyaq)
- Yiddish: קאָפּעטע f (kopete)
hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs, present participle hoofing, simple past and past participle hoofed)
- To trample with hooves.
- (colloquial) To walk.
- (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
- (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.
Synonym: boot
From Dutch hoofd, Middle Dutch hovet, from Old Dutch hōvit, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą. Doublet of sjef.
hoof (plural hoofde)
From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch hof, from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.
hoof m
- garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)