mahout

English

Mahout on an elephant.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi महावत (mahāvat), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “high official”), from मह (maha, “great”) + मात्र (mātra, “measure”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈhaʊt/, /məˈhuːt/

Noun

mahout (plural mahouts)

1. An elephant driver and keeper.

Translations

elephant driver and keeper

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 象夫 (xiàngfū)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: elevandijuht
• Finnish: norsunajaja
• French: cornac (fr) m
• German: Elefantentreiber m
• Hebrew: פַּיָּל (he) m (payal)
• Hindi: महावत (hi) m (mahāvat)
• Hungarian: elefánthajcsár
• Khmer: ហត្ថិគោបកៈ (hattʰe’koopa’ka’), ទ្រមាក់ (km) (trɔmeak), ហ្មដំរី (maa dɑmrəy)
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• Kurdish:
• Old Gujarati: पुंतार (puṃtāra)
• Polish: kornak (pl) m
• Portuguese: cornaca (pt) m
• Romanian: cornac (ro)
• Russian: махау́т m (maxaút), пого́нщик слоно́в m (pogónščik slonóv)
• Spanish: cornaca (es) m
• Telugu: మావటి (te) (māvaṭi)
• Thai: ควาญ (th) (kwaan), ควาญช้าง
• Vietnamese: quản tượng (vi)

Verb

mahout (third-person singular simple present mahouts, present participle mahouting, simple past and past participle mahouted)

1. To drive elephants.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mahout.

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Spanish

Noun

mahout m (plural mahouts)

1. mahout