hate

See also: hatě, hâte, hâté, and hāte

English

Etymology

From Middle English hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English hete, hæte, heate (“hate”), from Old English hete, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hatred, hate”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“strong emotion”). Cognate with West Frisian haat, Dutch haat, German Hass, Norwegian and Swedish hat.

The verb is from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English haten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hatian (“to hate, treat as an enemy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hatōną (“to hate”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hataz, from the same root as above. Cognate with Dutch haten, German hassen, Swedish hata, French haïr (a Germanic borrowing).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪt/

• Audio (GA):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

hate (countable and uncountable, plural hates)

1. An object of hatred.

   One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.

2. Hatred.

   He gave me a look filled with pure hate.

3. (Internet slang) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.

   There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Justin Bieber from his fans.

Related terms

• hate crime
• hatel
• hater
• hatred

Translations

hatred — see hatred

negative interaction in Internet

• Polish: hejt (pl) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

1. (transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
   • 1997, Popular Science (volume 251, number 4, page 34)

     People who hate broccoli may have super-sensitive taste buds.

2. (intransitive) To experience hatred.

   Do not fear; he who fears hates; he who hates kills. — attributed to Gandhi

3. (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Used in a phrasal verb: hate on.

Conjugation

Conjugation of hat

infinitive	(to) hat
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	hat	hated
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular	hats
plural	hat
subjunctive	hat	hated
imperative	hat	—
participles	hating	hated

Synonyms

• (to dislike intensely): See Thesaurus:hate

Antonyms

• (to dislike intensely): See Thesaurus:love

Derived terms

• forehate

Translations

to dislike intensely

• Afrikaans: haat (af)
• Albanian: urrej (sq)
• Amharic: መጥላት (mäṭlat)
• Arabic: كَرِهَ (kariha), أَبْغَضَ (ʔabḡaḍa)

  Egyptian Arabic: كره (kirih), بغض (baḡaḍ)

• Armenian: ատել (hy) (atel)
• Aromanian: urãscu
• Asturian: odiar
• Azerbaijani: nifrət etmək
• Belarusian: ненаві́дзець impf (njenavídzjecʹ)
• Bengali: ঘৃণা করা (ghrina kora)
• Bulgarian: мра́зя (bg) impf (mrázja), ненави́ждам (bg) impf (nenavíždam)
• Burmese: စက်ဆုပ် (my) (cakhcup), မုန်း (my) (mun:)
• Catalan: odiar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 好憎 (hou² zang¹), 憎 (zang¹)

  Mandarin: 恨 (zh) (hèn), 討厭／讨厌 (zh) (tǎoyàn), 讨厌 (zh) (tǎoyàn), 仇恨 (zh) (chóuhèn), 憎 (zh) (zēng), 憎恨 (zh) (zēnghèn), 嫌 (zh) (xián), 恨惡／恨恶 (zh) (hènwù), 恨恶 (zh) (hènwù)

• Czech: nenávidět (cs) impf, nesnášet impf
• Danish: hade
• Dutch: haten (nl)
• Esperanto: malami (eo)
• Estonian: vihkama
• Faroese: hata
• Finnish: vihata (fi)
• French: haïr (fr), détester (fr)
• Friulian: odeâ
• Georgian: სიძულვილი (siʒulvili), ეჯავრება (eǯavreba), ზიზღი (zizɣi)
• German: hassen (de)
• Greek: μισώ (el) (misó), απεχθάνομαι (el) (apechthánomai)

  Ancient: μῑσέω (mīséō)

• Hebrew: שָׂנֵא (he) (sané)
• Hindi: घृणा करना (ghŕṇā karnā)
• Hungarian: gyűlöl (hu)
• Icelandic: hata (is)
• Ido: odiar (io)
• Indonesian: benci (id), membenci (id)
• Irish: is fuath le
• Italian: odiare (it)
• Japanese: 憎む (ja) (にくむ, nikumu), 嫌う (ja) (きらう, kirau), 厭う (ja) (いとう, itou), 嫌悪する (ja) (けんおする, ken'o suru)
• Kazakh: жек көру (kk) (jek köru)
• Khmer: ស្អប់ (km) (s’ɑp), ជិន (km) (cɨn)
• Korean: 싫어하다 (ko) (sireohada), 미워하다 (ko) (miwohada)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîlet bûn (ku), nefret kirin (ku), hîlet bûn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жек көрүү (jek körüü)
• Lao: ກຽດ (lo) (kīat)
• Latgalian: neist
• Latin: ōdī (defective), odiō
• Latvian: ienīst, neciest
• Lithuanian: neapkęsti
• Low German: haten
• Luxembourgish: haassen
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• Macedonian: мрази impf (mrazi)
• Malay: benci (ms)
• Maltese: mibegħda, bagħad
• Maore Comorian: uyenga, utukiwa na
• Maori: mauāhara
• Middle English: haten
• Mongolian: хорсох (mn) (xorsox), үзэн ядах (üzen jadax), занах (mn) (zanax)
• Navajo: yijoołá
• Norman: dêtester
• Norwegian: hate (no)
• Occitan: asirar (oc), aissosar
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: ненавидѣти impf (nenaviděti)

• Old English: hatian
• Old Norse: hata
• Pashto: بدوړل (badwṛǝ́l)
• Persian: نفرت داشتن (nefrat dâštan), بیزار بودن (bizâr budan)
• Pitjantjatjara: kuraringanyi
• Polish: nienawidzić (pl) impf
• Portuguese: odiar (pt)
• Quechua: chiqnikuy, chiqniy, cignii, cikii
• Romanian: urî (ro)
• Romansch: odiar, detestar, hassiar, spretschar
• Russian: ненави́деть (ru) impf (nenavídetʹ)
• Sanskrit: द्वेष्टि (sa) (dvéṣṭi)
• Sardinian: odiai, tirriai
• Serbo-Croatian: nenávideti impf, нена́видети impf

  Cyrillic: мр́зити impf, мр́зети impf

  Roman: mŕziti (sh) impf, mŕzeti (sh) impf

• Sinhalese: ද්වේෂ කරනවා (dwēṣa karanawā)
• Slovak: nenávidieť impf
• Slovene: sovražiti (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gramowaś impf, gramjeś impf

• Spanish: odiar (es)
• Sumerian: 𒄾𒈪𒉭 (ḪUL.IGI)
• Swahili: kuchukia
• Swedish: hata (sv)
• Tagalog: mapoot
• Tajik: нафрат доштан (nafrat doštan), нафрат кардан (nafrat kardan), бад додан (bad dodan)
• Telugu: ఏవగించుకొను (ēvagiñcukonu), అసహ్యించుకొను (asahyiñcukonu)
• Thai: เกลียด (th) (glìiat)
• Tibetan: དགའ་པོ་མེད་པ (dga' po med pa), སྡང་བ (sdang ba)
• Turkish: nefret etmek (tr), iğrenmek (tr), tiksinmek (tr), ikrah etmek (tr) (archaic)
• Turkmen: ýigrenmek, ýigrençmek
• Ukrainian: ненави́діти impf (nenavýdity)
• Urdu: گھرنا کرنا (ghŕṇā karnā), نفرت کرنا (nafrat karna)
• Uyghur: امان كۆرمەك (aman körmek), نەپرەتلەنمەك (nepretlenmek)
• Uzbek: yomon koʻrmoq, nafratlanmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: ghét (vi)
• Welsh: casáu (cy)
• Yiddish: פֿײַנט האָבן (faynt hobn), האַסן (hasn)

Anagrams

• HEAT, Thea, eath, haet, heat, heta

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Bola

Noun

hate

1. liver

References

• Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 2

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Cia-Cia

Alternative forms

• 하떼

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

hate (Hangul spelling 하떼)

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

References

• Van den Berg, Rene (1991). "Preliminary Notes on the Cia-Cia Language," in Excursies in Celebes, pp. 305-324.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

hate

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haten

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Japanese

Romanization

hate

1. Rōmaji transcription of はて

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From earlier hete (from Old English hete, from Proto-Germanic *hataz), influenced by haten.

Alternative forms

• haate, hatte, hat, ate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːt(ə)/

Noun

hate (plural hates)

1. Hate, hatred, anger, wroth.
2. Something that causes or induces hate; insults, demeaning words.
3. The results of hate; enmity, discord, turmoil.
4. (rare) Something that one hates.

Related terms

• hateful
• hatel
• hateliche
• haten
• hatere
• hatesum
• hatfully
• hatrede
• hatyng

Descendants

• English: hate
• Scots: hate, hait, heit

References

• “hāte (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

Etymology 2

From Old English hatian.

Verb

hate

1. Alternative form of haten

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hata

Verb

hate (imperative hat, present tense hater, passive hates, simple past and past participle hata or hatet, present participle hatende)

1. to hate (somebody / something)

Related terms

• hat (noun)

References

• “hate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hata

Etymology

From Old Norse hata

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hɑːtə/

Verb

hate (present tense hatar, past tense hata, past participle hata, passive infinitive hatast, present participle hatande, imperative hate/hat)

1. to hate (someone, something)

Related terms

• hat (noun)

References

• “hate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Unami

Verb

hate

1. there is, there exists