hoof

English

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish and Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Russian копыто (kopýto) 'hoof', копать (kopát’) 'to dig', Avestan ... (safa, “hoof”), Sanskrit शफ (śapháḥ) 'hoof, claw').

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hʊf/, /huːf/, X-SAMPA: /hUf/, /hu:f/

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• Rhymes: -ʊf, -uːf

Noun

hooves of a horse.

hoof (plural hoofs or hooves)

1. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
2. (slang) The human foot.
3. (geometry, dated) An ungula.

Translations

tip of a toe of ungulates

• Albanian: thundër (sq)
• Arabic: ظلف (ar) (Zilf) m, خف (ar) (khuff) m
• Armenian: սմբակ (hy) (smbak), կճղակ (hy) (kč̣ġak), պճեղ (hy) (pč̣eġ)
• Asturian: pezuña (ast) f
• Baluchi: سرنب (surunb), سرمب (surumb), سرم (surum)
• Basque: apo (eu)
• Belarusian: капыта (be) (kapýta) n
• Bulgarian: копито (bg) (kopíto) n
• Catalan: peülla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蹄 (cmn) (tí), 蹢 (cmn) (dí)

• Czech: kopyto (cs) n
• Danish: hov (da) c
• Dutch: hoef (nl) m
• Esperanto: hufo (eo)
• Faroese: hógvur (fo) m
• Finnish: kavio (fi), sorkka (fi) (hoof of artiodactyls)
• French: sabot (fr)
• Galician: pezuño (gl) m, presuño (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩლიქი (ka) (č’lik’i)
• German: Huf (de) m
• Greek: οπλή (el) (oplí) f
• Hebrew: פרסה (he) (parsa) f
• Hungarian: pata (hu)
• Icelandic: hófur (is) m, klauf (is) f

• Italian: zoccolo (it) m
• Japanese: 蹄 (ja) (ひづめ, hizume)
• Korean: 굽 (ko) (gup)
• Kurdish: sim (ku) m
• Latin: ungula (la) f
• Macedonian: копито (mk) (kopito) n
• Norwegian: hov (no) m
• Polish: kopyto (pl) n
• Portuguese: casco (pt) m, pata (pt) f, pezunho (pt) m
• Russian: копыто (ru) (kopýto) n
• Scottish Gaelic: ladhar (gd) m, ìne (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: копито (sh) n

  Roman: kopito (sh) n

• Slovak: kopyto (sk) n
• Slovene: kopito (sl) n
• Spanish: pezuña (es) f, casco (es) m
• Swedish: hov (sv) c, klöv (sv) c
• Tamil: குளம்பு (ta) (kullambu)
• Taos: kòwmą̏celéna
• 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)
• Ukrainian: копито (uk) (kopýto) n
• Volapük: saf (vo)

slang: human foot

• Finnish: sorkka (fi)

• Italian: zampa (it)

Verb

hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs, present participle hoofing, simple past and past participle hoofed)

1. To trample with hooves.
2. (colloquial) To walk.
3. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
4. (colloquial, soccer, transitive) to kick, especially to kick the football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

Synonyms

• (to kick): boot

Related terms

• hoofed
• hoofer
• hoof it
• horse's hoof
• on the hoof
• cloven hoof

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Limburgish

Noun

hoof m

1. garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)