hamster

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a dwarf hamster
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[edit] 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’),[1] and of (2) Baltic *stara (compare Lithuanian stãras ‘ground squirrel’).[2][3]

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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.

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small, short-tailed European rodent

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  1. ^ Ernst Fraenkel, Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, I-II (Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962-1965), 212.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “Hamster” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).
  3. ^ C.T. Onions, ed., Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. “hamster” (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996), 425.

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hamster m. (plural hamsters, diminutive hamstertje)

  1. hamster

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hamster

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

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hamster m. (plural hamsters)

  1. hamster

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hamster

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

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hamster c.

  1. a hamster

[edit] Declension

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

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