hammer

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English

Wikipedia

A hammer (tool).

Etymology

From Middle English hamer, Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). The Germanic *hamaraz "tool with a stone head" derives from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros (compare Sanskrit aśmará 'stony'), itself a derivation from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).

For *h₂éḱmō 'stone', compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Russian камень (kamen'), Serbo-Croatian kamēn, Albanian kmesë 'sickle', Ancient Greek ἄκμων (akmōn) 'meteor rock, anvil', Avestan ... (asman), Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman)) (root *h₂eḱ- 'sharp').

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhæm.ə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"h{m.@(r)/
• Rhymes: -æmə(r)

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• (US) IPA: /ˈhæmɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"h{m@`/

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Noun

hammer (plural hammers)

1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
2. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
3. (anatomy) The malleus.
4. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
5. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
6. (curling) The last rock in an end.
7. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Derived terms

terms derived from hammer (noun)

ball peen hammer claw hammer cross peen hammer hammer and sickle hammerhead

hammer toe sledgehammer straight peen hammer war hammer Warrington hammer

Translations

tool

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: çekan (sq) m
• Amharic: መዶሻ (am) (mädoša)
• Arabic: مطرقة (ar) (miṭraqa) f
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մուրճ (hy) (murč̣)

  Old Armenian: մուրճ (murč), ուռն (uṙn), կռան (kṙan)

• Asturian: martiellu (ast) m
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: молат (be) (mólat) m, малаток (be) (malatók) m
• Breton: morzhol (br) m, morzholioù pl
• Bulgarian: чук (bg) (čuk) m
• Burmese: တူ (my) (tu)
• Catalan: martell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錘子 (cmn), 锤子 (cmn) (chuízi), 榔頭 (cmn), 榔头 (cmn) (lángtou)

  Min Nan: trad. 摃槌仔, simpl. 扛槌仔 (kòng-thûi-á)

• Cornish: morthol (kw)
• Crimean Tatar: çöküç
• Czech: kladivo (cs) n
• Danish: hammer (da) c
• Dutch: hamer (nl) m
• Emilian: martèl m
• Esperanto: martelo (eo)
• Estonian: haamer (et), vasar (et)
• Faroese: hamari (fo) m
• Finnish: vasara (fi)
• French: marteau (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩაქუჩი (ka) (č'ak’uč’i), ურო (ka) (uro)
• German: Hammer (de) m
• Greek: σφυρί (el) (sfyrí) n
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: פַּטִּישׁ (he) (patísh) m
• Hindi: हथौड़ा (hi) (hathauṛā) m
• Hungarian: kalapács (hu)
• Icelandic: hamar (is) m
• Ido: martelo (io)
• Indonesian: palu (id)
• Interlingua: martello (ia)
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: casúr (ga) m
• Italian: martello (it) m
• Japanese: 金槌 (ja) (かなづち, kanazuchi), 槌 (ja) (づち, zuchi), ハンマー (ja) (hanmā)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: балға (kk) (balğa)

• Khmer: ញញួរ (km) (ñɔñuə)
• Korean: 망치 (ko) (mang-chi)
• Kurdish: çekûç (ku) m, keçûç (ku) m

  Sorani: چه‌کوچ (ku)

• Latgalian: vasars m
• Latin: malleus (la) m
• Latvian: āmurs (lv) m, veseris (lv) m
• Lithuanian: plaktukas (lt) m, kūjis (lt) m
• Low German: Hamer (nds)
• Luhya: enyundo
• Luxembourgish: Hummer (lb) m
• Macedonian: чекан (mk) (čékan) m
• Malay: tukul (ms), palu (ms), penukul (ms), martil (ms)
• Malayalam: ചുറ്റിക (ml) (cuttika)
• Maltese: martell (mt) m
• Ngarrindjeri: yerungi
• Northern Sami: veažir
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hammer (nb) m

  Nynorsk: hammar (nn) m

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: چکش (fa) (čakoš)
• Polish: młot (pl) m, młotek (pl) m
• Portuguese: martelo (pt) m
• Romanian: ciocan (ro) m
• Russian: молот (ru) (mólot) m; молоток (ru) (molotók) m
• Scottish Gaelic: òrd (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чекић (sh) m

  Roman: čekić (sh) m

• Sicilian: marteddu (scn) m
• Slovak: kladivo (sk) n
• Slovene: kladivo (sl) n
• Spanish: martillo (es) m
• Swahili: nyundo (sw)
• Swedish: hammare (sv) c
• Taos: moltìyu’úna
• Telugu: సుత్తి (te) (sutti)
• Turkish: çekiç (tr)
• Ukrainian: молот (uk) (mólot) m, молоток (uk) (molotók) m
• Urdu: ہتوڑا (ur) (hathauṛā) m
• Vietnamese: búa (vi)
• Volapük: fög (vo)
• Welsh: morthwyl (cy) m
• West Frisian: hammer (fy)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

part of a firearm

• Bulgarian: ударник (bg) (ùdarnik) m, петле (bg) (petlè) n
• Danish: geværhane (da) c
• Dutch: hamer (nl) m
• Finnish: hana (fi), iskuvasara (fi)
• French: chien (fr) m
• Greek: επικρουστήρας (el) (epikroustíras) n, (colloquial) λύκος (el) (lýkos) m, (colloquial) κόκορας (el) (kókoras) m

• Italian: cane (it) m
• Manx: casoor (gv) m
• Russian: курок (ru) (kurok) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ударач (sh) m

  Roman: udarač (sh) m

• Swahili: nyundo (sw)

malleus

See also malleus

• Catalan: martell (ca) m
• German: Hammer (de) m
• Greek: σφύρα (el) (sfýra) f

• Irish: casúirín (ga) m, mailléas (ga) m
• Latvian: āmuriņš (lv) m
• Polish: młoteczek (pl) m
• Swahili: nyundo (sw)

piano part

• Danish: hammer (da) c
• Dutch: hamer (nl) m
• Finnish: vasara (fi)
• German: Hammer (de) m

• Greek: πλήκτρο (el) (plíktro) n
• Icelandic: hamar (is) m
• Irish: casúr (ga) m

frisbee throwing style

• Swahili: nyundo (sw)

curling: last rock in an end

• Swahili: nyundo (sw)

device made of a heavy steel ball

• German: Hammer (de) m

See also

• mallet

Verb

hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
2. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
3. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, BBC:

     This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.

4. To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

   I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

5. (figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

   We hammered them 5-0!

Derived terms

terms derived from hammer (verb)

hammered (adjective) hammerer

sledgehammer (verb)

See also

• hammer out

Translations

to strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc

• Danish: hamre (da)
• Dutch: hameren (nl), timmeren (nl)
• Finnish: vasaroida (fi), takoa (fi)
• French: marteler (fr)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کوتین (ku)

• Luxembourgish: hummeren (lb)
• Macedonian: зачукува (mk) (začúkuva), кове (mk) (kóve), забива (mk) (zábiva)

• Norwegian: hamre (no), banke (no)
• Portuguese: martelar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: čekićati (sh), kovati (sh)
• Spanish: martillar (es)
• Swedish: hamra (sv)
• Turkish: çekiçlemek (tr)
• Welsh: morthwylio (cy)
• Yiddish: שמידערן (yi) (shmidern)

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly

• Dutch: op doorhameren (nl), inhameren (nl)

(sports) To hit particularly hard

• Macedonian: зачукува (mk) (začúkuva)

to strike internally, as if hit by a hammer

• Macedonian: чука (mk) (čúka)

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Translations to be checked

• Breton: morzholat
• Interlingua: martellar
• Italian: martellare
• Persian: جکش
• Portuguese: martelar
• Swedish: hamra

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Etymology

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hamər/, [ˈhɑmɐ]

Noun

hammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)

1. hammer

Inflection

    Inflection of hammer

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	hammer	hammeren	hammere hamre	hammerne hamrene
genitive	hammers	hammerens	hammeres hamres	hammernes hamrenes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).

Noun

hammer m

1. hammer

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”). Compare English hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer.

Noun

hammer

1. hammer