Mohawk

See also: mohawk

English

Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution.

Etymology

From Dutch Mohawk. An exonym, probably from an (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Narragansett word meaning "they eat (animate things)", "cannibals". The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanien'kehá:ka (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

Proper noun

Mohawk

1. An indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
2. The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.

Translations

indigenous people of North America

• Marathi: मोहॉक f (mohǒka)
• Mohawk: Kanien'kehá:ka
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• Portuguese: moicano (pt)
• Russian: мохок (moxok), могаук (mogauk), мохавк (moxavk), могавк (mogavk)

Iroquoian language

• Dutch: Mohawk (nl) n
• Marathi: मोहॉक f (mohǒka)
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• Mohawk: Kanien’kéha
• Russian: могаукский (mogaukskij), могаук (mogauk), мохок (moxok), мохаук (moxauk), мохавк (moxavk)

Noun

Mohawk (plural Mohawks)

Mohawk hairstyle.

1. An individual member of the Mohawk people.
2. (also mohawk) A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.
3. (historical) A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.

Synonyms

• (hairstyle): Iroquois
• (UK/Australia hairstyle): Mohican, Mowie

Derived terms

• (hairstyle): brohawk, fauxhawk, frohawk

Translations

hairstyle

• Arabic: موهوك
• Armenian: մոհաք (mohakʻ)
• Bavarian: Irokesenschnitt m, Iro m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞冠頭／鸡冠头 (jīguāntóu), 鸡冠头 (jīguāntóu), 莫西干 (mòxīgàn)

• Czech: číro, čerokýz
• Danish: hanekam
• Dutch: hanenkam (nl) m
• Finnish: irokeesikampaus, irokeesitukka, irokeesi (fi), mohikaanikampaus (fi)
• French: crête iroquoise (fr) f
• German: Irokesenschnitt m, Iro m (colloquial/slang)
• Icelandic: hanakambur (is) m
• Italian: moicana f, mohawk
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• Japanese: モヒカン刈り (mohikangari)
• Marathi: मोहॉक f (mohǒka)
• Norwegian: hanekam
• Polish: irokez (pl) m
• Portuguese: moicano (pt) m
• Russian: ироке́з (ru) m (irokéz)
• Silesian: irokez
• Slovak: číro, čerokýz
• Spanish: cresta (es) f, mohawk m, mohicano m, iro m
• Swedish: tuppkam (sv)
• Tamil: மொஹாக் (mohāk)
• Ukrainian: іроке́з m (irokéz)

See also

• Mohawk Nation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mohawk language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mohawk hairstyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Mohawk, moh ⁠

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Dutch

Etymology

Algonquian.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Mohawk

1. The Mohawk people
2. The Mohawk language