hunt

See also Hunt

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *huntōnan (“to hunt, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hʌnt/, SAMPA: /hVnt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Verb

hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

1. To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.

   Her uncle is out deer hunting, now that it is open season.

2. To try to find something; search.

   The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.

3. (transitive, of a horse) To ride at a hunt.

   Did you hunt that pony last week?

Derived terms

• Category:English words derived from: hunt (verb)
• treasure hunt

Translations

to chase down prey

Albanian: gjuaj (sq) Arabic: اصطاد (ar) (iSTaada) Armenian: որսալ (hy) (vorsal) Basque: please add this translation if you can Burmese: အမဲလိုက် (my) (ămè:laik) Catalan: caçar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 打獵 (zh), 打猎 (zh) (dǎliè), 獵取 (zh), 猎取 (zh) (lièqǔ), 捕食 (zh) (bǔshí) Czech: lovit (cs) Danish: jage (da), gå på jagt efter (da) Dutch: jagen (nl) Esperanto: ĉasi (eo) Finnish: metsästää (fi), jahdata (fi) French: chasser (fr) Galician: cazar (gl) Georgian: ნადირობა (ka) (nadiroba) German: jagen (de) Greek: κυνηγώ (el) (kynigó), θηρεύω (el) (thirévo) Hawaiian: hahai, ʻimi Hindi: शिकार करना (hi) (śikār karnā) Hungarian: vadászik (hu) Icelandic: veiða (is) Irish: seilg (ga) Italian: cacciare (it) Japanese: 狩る (ja) (かる, karu) Khmer: បរបាញ់ (km) (bɑɑ bañ) Korean: 사냥하다 (ko) (sanyang-hada) Kurdish: ڕاودان (ku)

Latin: venor (la) Latvian: medīt (lv) Lithuanian: medžioti (lt) Malayalam: േവട്ടയാടുക (vEttayaatuka) Maltese: kaċċa (mt) Maori: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: jakte (no) Old English: huntian (ang), ġehuntian (ang) Persian: شکار کردن (fa) (šekâr kardan), صید کردن (fa) (said kardan) Polish: polować (pl) Portuguese: caçar (pt) Romanian: vâna (ro) Romansch: chatschar (rm) Russian: охотиться (ru) (oxótit’sja) impf. Scottish Gaelic: sealg (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ловити (sh) Roman loviti (sh) Spanish: cazar (es) Swedish: jaga (sv) Telugu: వేటాడు (te) (vETaaDu) Thai: ล่าสัตว์ (th) (lâa sàt), ล่า (th) (lâa) Turkish: avlamak (tr) [-ar] Urdu: شکار کرنا (ur) (śikār karnā), صید کرنا (ur) (said karnā) Vietnamese: săn bắn (vi) Welsh: hela (cy) West Frisian: jeie (fy)  !Xóõ: !qāhe, gǀkxʻâã

to search for something

Catalan: caçar (ca) Czech: hledat (cs) Danish: søge (da), lede (da) Dutch: zoeken (nl) Finnish: metsästää (fi), jahdata (fi)

Greek: ψάχνω (el) (psáchno), αναζητώ (el) (anazitó) Hungarian: vadászik (hu), kutat (hu) Icelandic: leita (is) Norwegian: jakte (no), søke (no) Portuguese: caçar (pt)

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Estonian: jahtima (et), küttima (et) Hebrew: צד (he) (tsad), חיפש (he) (khipés)

Inuktitut: ᐊᖑᓇᓱᒃᑐᖅ (iu) Korean: 사냥하다 (ko) (sanyang-hada), 잡다 (ko) (japda)

Noun

hunt (plural hunts)

1. The act of hunting
2. A hunting expedition
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization)

Derived terms

• Category:English words derived from: hunt (noun)

Translations

the act of hunting, shooting

Albanian: gjueti (sq) Arabic: صَيْد (ar) Moroccan Arabic: صيّادة f. Armenian: որս (hy) (ors) Catalan: caça (ca) f., cacera (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 狩獵 (cmn), 狩猎 (cmn) (shòuliè) Czech: lov (cs) m. Danish: jagt (da) c. Dutch: jacht (nl) m. Estonian: jaht (et) Ewe: adedada (ee) Finnish: metsästys (fi), jahti (fi) French: chasse (fr) f. German: Jagd (de) f. Greek: κυνήγι (el) (kynígi) n., θήρα (el) (thíra) Hebrew: מצוד (he) (matsód) m., ציד (he) (tsáyid) m. Hindi: शिकार (hi) (šikār) m. Hungarian: vadászat (hu) Icelandic: veiði (is) f. Italian: caccia (it) f.

Japanese: 狩り (ja) (kari), 狩猟 (ja) (shuryō) Korean: 사냥 (ko) (sanyang) Kurdish: ڕاو (ku) Lithuanian: medžioklė (lt) f. Malayalam: േവട്ട (vEtta) Norwegian: jakt (no) Persian: شکار (fa) (šekār),  (fa) (said) Polish: polowanie (pl) n., myślistwo (pl) n. Portuguese: caça (pt) (Brazil) Romanian: vânătoare (ro) Russian: охота (ru) (oxóta) f. Scottish Gaelic: sealg (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лов (sh) m. Roman: lov (sh) m. Spanish: caza (es) f. Swedish: jakt (sv) c. Telugu: వేట (te) (vETa) Turkish: av (tr) Urdu: شکار (ur) (šikār) m., صید (ur) (said) f. Walloon: tchesse (wa) f.

hunting expedition

Catalan: cacera (ca) f., caça (ca) f. Czech: lov (cs) m., hon (cs) m. Esperanto: ĉasado (eo) Greek: κυνήγι (el) (kynígi) n.

Icelandic: veiðiferð (is) f. Krymchak: ав (av) Norwegian: jakt (no) Scottish Gaelic: sealg (gd) f.

organization

Czech: lovecký (cs) spolek (cs) m.

Esperanto: ĉasaĵaro (eo)

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Arabic: مطاردة (ar) Basque: ehizatu (eu) Bulgarian: лов (bg) Cebuano: pagpangayam (ceb) Esperanto: casi (eo) Hiligaynon: mangayam Indonesian: pencarian (io)

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Estonian

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Noun

hunt (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. wolf, grey wolf

Declension

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Synonyms

• susi
• untsantsakas
• hall hunt (grey wolf)

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Old High German

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *hundaz, whence also Old English hund, Old Norse hundr.

Noun

hunt m.

1. dog

Descendants

• German: Hund
• Yiddish: הונט (hunt)