English
cotton gloves with grips
Etymology
From Middle English glove , glofe , from Old English glōf , *glōfe , *glōfa , ( "glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan ( “ gloves ” ) ) , from Proto-Germanic *galōfô ( “ glove ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *ga- ( “ collective and associative prefix ” ) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô ( “ flat of the hand, palm ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *lāp- , *lēp- , *lep- ( “ flat ” ) . Cognate with Scots gluve , gluive ( “ glove ” ) , Icelandic glófi ( “ glove ” ) . Related to Middle English lofe , lufe ( “ palm of the hand ” ) . More at loof .
Pronunciation
Noun
glove (plural gloves )
An item of clothing other than a mitten , covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
A baseball mitt .
( baseball , figuratively ) The ability to catch a hit ball.
Frederico had a great glove , but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
( slang ) A condom .
( with definite article ) A challenge from one to another.
to throw down the glove , i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove , to accept it
Synonyms
Translations
item of clothing
Adyghe: ӏэбыцу ( ʼɛbəcʷu ) , ӏэбычъу ( ʼɛbəćʷu ) ( Shapsug )
Afrikaans: handskoen
Albanian: dorezë (sq) f , dorashkë (sq) f
Arabic: قُفَّاز (ar) m ( quffāz ) , كَفّ m ( kaff )
Egyptian Arabic: جوانتى m ( guwanti )
Hijazi Arabic: جُوِنْتِي m ( juwanti, juwinti ) , قُفَّاز m ( quffāz, guffāz )
Moroccan Arabic: ليڭة f ( līga )
North Levantine Arabic: كفّ ( kaff ) , كفوف ( kfuf ) (plural)
South Levantine Arabic: كفّ ( kaff ) , كفوف ( kfuf ) (plural)
Arapaho: 3ooxe
Armenian: ձեռնոց (hy) ( jeṙnocʻ )
Old Armenian: ձեռէք ( jeṙēkʻ )
Aromanian: mãnushi f
Assamese: হাতমোজা ( hatmüza )
Asturian: guante m
Azerbaijani: əlcək (az) , əllik
Bashkir: бирсәткә ( birsətkə ) , бейәләй ( beyələy )
Basque: eskularru (eu)
Belarusian: пальча́тка f ( palʹčátka ) , рукаві́ца f ( rukavíca )
Bengali: দস্তানা ( dostana )
Breton: maneg (br) f
Bulgarian: ръкави́ца (bg) f ( rǎkavíca )
Burmese: လက်အိတ် (my) ( lak-it )
Catalan: guant (ca) m
Chechen: кара ( kara ) , каранаш ( karanaš )
Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏰᏑᎶ ( aliyesulo )
Cheyenne: to'ha
Chinese:
Cantonese: 手襪 / 手袜 , 手袜 ( sau2 mat6 ) , 手套 ( sau2 tou3 )
Mandarin: 手套 (zh) ( shǒutào )
Min Nan: 手囊 (zh-min-nan) ( tshiu2-long5 ) , 手套 (zh-min-nan) ( tshiu2-tho3 )
Wu: 手套 ( seu thau )
Chuvash: перчетке ( perč̬etke )
Classical Nahuatl: māyēhuatl
Cornish: manek f
Cree: ᔨᔩᑲᐢᑎᐢ ( yiyiikastis )
Crimean Tatar: qolçaq , qolşaq ( Northern )
Czech: rukavice (cs) f
Dakota: nąpį́kpa
Danish: handske (da) c , ( mitten ) vante (da) c
Dutch: handschoen (nl) f
Esperanto: ganto (eo)
Estonian: sõrmik
Faroese: vøttur m , handski m , glógvi m
Fijian: qaniliga
Finnish: hansikas (fi) , hanska (fi) , sormikas (fi)
Fox: menechîha
French: gant (fr) m
Galician: luva f , guante m
Gamilaraay: marabin
Georgian: ხელთათმანი ( xeltatmani ) , ხელჯაგი ( xelǯagi ) , თათმანი ( tatmani )
German: Handschuh (de) m
Pennsylvania German: Hensching m
Greek: γάντι (el) n ( gánti ) , χειρόκτιο (el) n ( cheiróktio ) ( obsolete )
Ancient: χειρίς f ( kheirís )
Greenlandic: aaqqat
Guaraní: poryru
Gutnish: handsko m
Haitian Creole: gan
Hawaiian: mikilima
Hebrew: כְּפָפָה (he) f ( kfafá )
Hiligaynon: gwantes
Hindi: दस्ताना (hi) m ( dastānā )
Hungarian: kesztyű (hu)
Icelandic: hanski m , glófi m
Ido: ganto (io)
Ilocano: guántes
Indonesian: sarung tangan (id)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Irish: lámhainn (ga) f , miotóg f
Italian: guanto (it) m
Japanese: 手袋 (ja) ( てぶくろ, tebukuro )
Karaim: къолчакъ ( qolčaq )
Karelian: perčanku
Kazakh: қолғап (kk) ( qolğap ) , биялай ( biälai )
Khmer: ស្រោមដៃ ( sraom day )
Konkani: हातांमेइ m ( hātāmmei )
Korean: 장갑(掌匣)(掌甲) (ko) ( janggap )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لەپک (ckb) m ( lepk ) , دەستکێش (ckb) ( destkêş )
Northern Kurdish: lepik (ku) m , destane (ku) , destgork (ku)
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Kyrgyz: колкап ( kolkap ) , мээлей (ky) ( meeley )
Lao: ຖົງມື (lo) ( thong mư̄ )
Latgalian: cymds m
Latin: manica f , chirotheca f , wantum , wantus
Latvian: cimds m
Lithuanian: pirštinė f
Ludian: kindaz
Luxembourgish: Händsch (lb) f
Macedonian: ракавица f ( rakavica )
Malagasy: fonon-tanany
Malay: sarung tangan (ms)
Maltese: ingwanta f
Manx: lauean m
Maori: karapu (mi)
Marathi: हातमोजा m ( hātmojā )
Middle English: glove , myteyne
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бээлий (mn) ( beelii )
Mongolian: ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠯᠡᠢ ( begelei )
Montagnais: ninikashtish
Navajo: lájish
Neapolitan: guanto m
Nepali: पन्जा ( panjā )
Norman: gant m ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: gistta , fáhcca
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vante (no) m , hanske (no) m
Nynorsk: vante m , hanske m
Occitan: gant (oc) m
Ojibwe: minjikaawan
Old East Slavic: пьрстатица f ( pĭrstatica ) ( Pskov manuscripts )
Old English: glōf f
Old French: gant m , guant m
Old Norse: hanzki m , vǫttr m
Oriya: ଦସ୍ତାନା (or) ( dastānā )
Ottoman Turkish: الدیون ( eldiven )
Papiamentu: anskun , hanskun , wante
Pashto: دستکش (ps) m ( dəstkaš ) , دسکله (ps) f ( dəskala )
Persian: دستکش (fa) ( dastkeš )
Polish: rękawica (pl) f , rękawiczka (pl) f
Portuguese: luva (pt) f
Punjabi: ਦਸਤਾਨਾ m ( dastānā )
Romanian: mănușă (ro) f
Russian: перча́тка (ru) f ( perčátka ) , рукави́ца (ru) f ( rukavíca ) ( mitten )
Saterland Frisian: Wonte f , Hondske f
Scots: gluve , glufe , gluif
Scottish Gaelic: dòrnag f , làmhainn f , miotag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рука̀вица f
Roman: rukàvica (sh) f
Sicilian: nguantu (scn) m
Silesian: glazyjki
Slovak: rukavica f
Slovene: rokavica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rukajca f
Upper Sorbian: rukajca f
Spanish: guante (es) m
Swahili: glavu (sw) class 9 /10
Swedish: vante (sv) c , handske (sv) c
Tagalog: guwantes
Tajik: дасткаш ( dastkaš ) , дастпӯшак (tg) ( dastpüšak )
Talysh: alcəq
Tamil: கையுறை (ta) ( kaiyuṟai )
Taos: mą̂nmųną
Tatar: (please verify ) бишбармакча ( bişbarmaqça ) , перчатка ( perçatka ) , бияләй (tt) ( biyaläy )
Thai: ถุงมือ (th) ( tǔng-mʉʉ )
Tibetan: ལག་ཤུབས ( lag shubs )
Tigrinya: ግዋንቲ ( gəwanti )
Turkish: eldiven (tr)
Turkmen: ellik
Ukrainian: рукави́ця f ( rukavýcja ) , перча́тка f ( perčátka )
Urdu: دستانا m ( dastānā )
Uyghur: پەلەي ( peley ) , قولقاپ ( qolqap )
Uzbek: qoʻlqop (uz)
Venetian: maneẑa (vec) f , guanto m
Veps: sor'mikod , kindaz
Vietnamese: găng tay , bao tay (vi)
Vilamovian: haondski m
Volapük: gluf (vo)
Welsh: maneg f , menig f pl
West Frisian: mof c
White Hmong: hnab looj tes
Winnebago: nąąp horužųc
Yiddish: הענטשקע f ( hentshke )
Zhuang: madfwngz
Zulu: igilavu class 5 /6
baseball: ability to catch a hit ball
idiomatic term for a condom
Verb
glove (third-person singular simple present gloves , present participle gloving , simple past and past participle gloved )
( baseball , transitive ) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt .
He gloved the line drive for the third out.
( transitive ) To put a glove or gloves on.
Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
2004 , David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas :After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
( cricket ) To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
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Middle English
Etymology
Inherited from Old English *glōfa (variant of glōf ), from Proto-West Germanic *glōfō , from Proto-Germanic *galōfô ; equivalent to y- + love ( “ palm ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
glove (plural gloves or gloven )
A glove or gauntlet ( hand covering )
A glove as a token of feudal allegiance .
A glove or gauntlet in various symbolic uses:
Signifying assent , agreement , or the marital compact .
Signifying entry into combat .
Signifying worthlessness or unimportance .
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