hamster

See also Hamster, hámster, hàmster, and ħamster

English

a dwarf hamster

Wikipedia

Etymology

1607; from German Hamster, from Old High German hamastra, hamustro, from Old East Slavic хомѣсторъ (choměstorŭ), хомѣстаръ (choměstarŭ), compound of (1) хомѣкъ (choměkŭ) ‘hamster’ (compare Russian хомяк (chomják), Polish chomik), from Balto-Slavic *kā̂mia (compare Latvian kāmis ‘hamster’, Lithuanian kãmas ‘rat’), and of (2) Baltic *stara (compare Lithuanian stãras ‘ground squirrel’).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈhæmstɚ/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

hamster (plural hamsters)

1. A small, short-tailed Euroasian rodent, Cricetus frumentarius, often kept as a pet. It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.

   It is the cutest sight to see a hamster stuff his puffy cheeks with food; where is it going to store it?

2. (zoology) Any of various Old-world rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.

Translations

small, short-tailed European rodent

• Albanian: lloj brejtësi (sq)
• Azeri: dağsiçanı
• Basque: hamster
• Belarusian: хамяк (hamjak)
• Breton: hamster
• Bulgarian: хомяк (homjak) m, хамстер (hamster) m
• Catalan: hàmster m
• Chechen: оьпа (öpa)
• Chinese: 倉鼠 (cāngshǔ), 仓鼠
• Czech: křeček (cs) m
• Dalmatian: viala f
• Danish: hamster (da)
• Dutch: hamster (nl) m
• Esperanto: hamstro (eo)
• Estonian: hamster (et)
• Faroese: hamstari (fo)
• Filipino: hamster
• Finnish: hamsteri (fi)
• French: hamster (fr) m, rat de blé (fr) m
• Friulian: cricęt
• Galician: hámster
• Georgian: ზაზუნა (ka) (zazuna) 
• German: Hamster (de) m
• Greek: χάμστερ (el) (chámster) n 
• Hebrew: אוגר (he)
• Hungarian: hörcsög (hu)
• Icelandic: hamstur (is)
• Interlingua: hamster
• Irish: hamstar
• Italian: criceto (it) m
• Japanese: ハムスター (ja) (hamusutā)
• Korean: 햄스터

• Latin: Mesocricetus, Cricetus
• Latvian: kāmis
• Lithuanian: žiurkėnas
• Lower Sorbian: zemcygaŕ
• Macedonian: хрчак (hrčak) m
• Malay: tikus belanda (ms)
• Maltese: ħamster
• Mari: ӓрлӓн (ärlän)
• Norwegian: hamster (no) m
• Occitan: amstèr
• Polish: chomik (pl) m
• Portuguese: hamster (pt) m
• Romanian: hamster (ro), hârciog (ro)
• Romansch: furmanter, raffun, raspun
• Russian: хомяк (ru) (homjak) n 
• Sami: hamster
• Scottish Gaelic: hamstair (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хр́чак (sh) m

  Roman: hŕčak (sh) m

• Slovak: škrečok
• Slovene: hrček (sl) m
• Spanish: hámster (es) m
• Swedish: hamster (sv)
• Turkish: hamster (tr)
• Ukrainian: хом'як (uk) (xom”ják) m 
• Upper Sorbian: žurk
• Volapük: (male or female) kriset (vo), (male) hikriset (vo), (female) jikriset (vo), (male or female offspring, young) krisetül (vo)
• Welsh: bochdew
• West Frisian: hamster

See also

• gerbil
• guinea pig
• mouse
• rat

Anagrams

• Amherst

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɦɑmstər/

• audio

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Noun

hamster m (plural hamsters, diminutive hamstertje)

1. hamster

Verb

hamster

1. first-person singular present indicative of hamsteren
2. imperative of hamsteren

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French

Pronunciation

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• X-SAMPA: /amstER/ (h aspiré)

Noun

hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. hamster

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German

Verb

hamster

1. First-person singular present of hamstern.
2. Imperative singular of hamstern.

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Swedish

Noun

hamster c

1. a hamster

Declension

Declension of hamster

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hamster	hamstern	hamstrar	hamstrarna
genitive	hamsters	hamsterns	hamstrars	hamstrarnas

Related terms

• guldhamster
• hamsterbur
• hamsterhjul
• hamstra
• hamstrare
• hamstring

References

• hamster in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Turkish

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [hamsteɾ]
• Hyphenation: hams‧ter

Noun

hamster (definite accusative hamsteri, plural hamsterler)

1. (zoology, mammals, rodents) hamster

Declension

declension of hamster

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	hamster	hamsterler
definite accusative (belirtme)	hamsteri	hamsterleri
dative (yönelme)	hamstere	hamsterlere
locative (bulunma)	hamsterde	hamsterlerde
ablative (çıkma)	hamsterden	hamsterlerden
genitive (tamlayan)	hamsterin	hamsterlerin

possessive forms of hamster

nominative	singular	plural
benim (my)	hamsterim	hamsterlerim
senin (your)	hamsterin	hamsterlerin
onun (his/her/its)	hamsteri	hamsterleri
bizim (our)	hamsterimiz	hamsterlerimiz
sizin (your)	hamsteriniz	hamsterleriniz
onların (their)	hamsterleri	hamsterleri
accusative	singular	plural
benim (my)	hamsterimi	hamsterlerimi
senin (your)	hamsterini	hamsterlerini
onun (his/her/its)	hamsterini	hamsterlerini
bizim (our)	hamsterimizi	hamsterlerimizi
sizin (your)	hamsterinizi	hamsterlerinizi
onların (their)	hamsterlerini	hamsterlerini
dative	singular	plural
benim (my)	hamsterime	hamsterlerime
senin (your)	hamsterine	hamsterlerine
onun (his/her/its)	hamsterine	hamsterlerine
bizim (our)	hamsterimize	hamsterlerimize
sizin (your)	hamsterinize	hamsterlerinize
onların (their)	hamsterlerine	hamsterlerine
locative	singular	plural
benim (my)	hamsterimde	hamsterlerimde
senin (your)	hamsterinde	hamsterlerinde
onun (his/her/its)	hamsterinde	hamsterlerinde
bizim (our)	hamsterimizde	hamsterlerimizde
sizin (your)	hamsterinizde	hamsterlerinizde
onların (their)	hamsterlerinde	hamsterlerinde
ablative	singular	plural
benim (my)	hamsterimden	hamsterlerimden
senin (your)	hamsterinden	hamsterlerinden
onun (his/her/its)	hamsterinden	hamsterlerinden
bizim (our)	hamsterimizden	hamsterlerimizden
sizin (your)	hamsterinizden	hamsterlerinizden
onların (their)	hamsterlerinden	hamsterlerinden
genitive	singular	plural
benim (my)	hamsterimin	hamsterlerimin
senin (your)	hamsterinin	hamsterlerinin
onun (his/her/its)	hamsterinin	hamsterlerinin
bizim (our)	hamsterimizin	hamsterlerimizin
sizin (your)	hamsterinizin	hamsterlerinizin
onların (their)	hamsterlerinin	hamsterlerinin