hashtag

See also: Hashtag

English

Etymology

From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) +‎ tag. The hash sign (#) was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/

Noun

hashtag (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content. [from 2007]
   • 2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552

     I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter

   • 2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets

     You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.

   • 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring

     While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

   • 2011, Rory Stewart, "Here we go again", London Review of Books, 33.VII:

     The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.

2. (Internet, informal) The hash sign itself.
   • 2016, Giffin, Emily, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.

   • 2018, Allison, John, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, →ISBN, page n.p.:

     You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.

Derived terms

• bashtag
• cashtag
• hashtivism

Translations

a tag with a hash sign

• Afrikaans: hutsmerk (af)
• Arabic: هَاشْتَاق m (hāštāq), هَاشْتَاغ m (hāštāḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: هاشْتاق m (haštāg)

• Armenian: հեշթեգ (heštʻeg)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 井號標籤／井号标签 (jǐnghào biāoqiān), 井号标签 (jǐnghào biāoqiān)

• Czech: hashtag m, heštek m (humble, rare)
• Danish: hashtag n
• Dutch: hashtag (nl) m
• Esperanto: kradvorto
• Estonian: hashtag (et), räsimärk, teemaviide
• Finnish: hästäkki, aihetunniste (fi), hashtag (fi)
• French: mot-clic (fr) m, mot-dièse (fr) m, hashtag (fr) m
• German: Hashtag (de) n
• Hungarian: hashtag
• Italian: hashtag (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)
• Korean: 해시태그 (haesitaegeu)
• Malay: tanda pagar
• Maori: tohumarau
• Occitan: etiqueta f
• Persian: هشتگ (haštag)
• Polish: hasztag m
• Portuguese: marcador (pt) f, hashtag (pt) m or f
• Russian: ме́тка (ru) f (métka), хэште́г (ru) m (xɛštɛ́g), хеште́г (ru) m (xɛštɛ́g)
• Slovak: hashtag m
• Spanish: hashtag m, etiqueta (es)
• Swedish: hashtag (sv)
• Thai: แฮชแท็ก (hɛ́ch-tɛ̀k)
• Turkish: etiket (tr)
• Ukrainian: геште́ґ m (heštég), хеште́г m (xeštéh)
• Welsh: hashnod m

Verb

1. (transitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.

Further reading

• hashtag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

---

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

Noun

hashtag

1. (Internet) hashtag

Declension

Declension of hashtag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hashtag	hashtagget	hashtags	hashtaggene
genitive	hashtags	hashtaggets	hashtags'	hashtagsenes

---

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʃ.taɡ/

Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag

Synonyms

• mot-clic
• mot-dièse

Derived terms

• hashtaguer

Related terms

• croisillon

Further reading

• “hashtag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

---

Hungarian

Etymology

From English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛʃtɛɡ]
• Hyphenation: hash‧tag

Noun

hashtag (plural hashtagek)

1. (Internet) hashtag
   • 2013 August 18, Dia Sákovics, “Miért osztjuk meg a neten a vacsoránk?”, in Origo‎^[4], retrieved 2015-02-06:

     Az Instragramon több mint 40 millió fotó található a food hashtag alatt […]

     There are more than 40 million photos under the food hashtag on Instagram […]

   • 2014 October 2, “Nyolc magyar a legnagyobb újítók között”, in Origo‎^[5], retrieved 2015-02-06:

     A New Europe 100-as listára bárki jelölhetett embereket a honlapon adott ajánlással vagy Twitteren a #NE100 hashtag használatával.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hashtag	hashtagek
accusative	hashtaget	hashtageket
dative	hashtagnek	hashtageknek
instrumental	hashtaggel	hashtagekkel
causal-final	hashtagért	hashtagekért
translative	hashtaggé	hashtagekké
terminative	hashtagig	hashtagekig
essive-formal	hashtagként	hashtagekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hashtagben	hashtagekben
superessive	hashtagen	hashtageken
adessive	hashtagnél	hashtageknél
illative	hashtagbe	hashtagekbe
sublative	hashtagre	hashtagekre
allative	hashtaghez	hashtagekhez
elative	hashtagből	hashtagekből
delative	hashtagről	hashtagekről
ablative	hashtagtől	hashtagektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	hashtagé	hashtageké
non-attributive possessive - plural	hashtagéi	hashtagekéi

Possessive forms of hashtag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hashtagem	hashtagjeim
2nd person sing.	hashtaged	hashtagjeid
3rd person sing.	hashtagje	hashtagjei
1st person plural	hashtagünk	hashtagjeink
2nd person plural	hashtagetek	hashtagjeitek
3rd person plural	hashtagjük	hashtagjeik

---

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hashtag.

Noun

hashtag f or m (plural s)

1. (Internet) hashtag (a tag with a hash sign)

---

Spanish

Etymology

From English hashtag.

Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. hashtag