ponytail

English

A woman's ponytail.

Alternative forms

• pony tail, pony-tail

Etymology

From pony +‎ tail.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊniˌteɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ponytail (plural ponytails)

2. A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.

   Hypernym: hairstyle

   Hyponym: ponyhawk

   • 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

     The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

Derived terms

• phonytail
• ponytailer
• Ponytailgate
• ponytail palm

Translations

hairstyle

• Arabic: ذَيْل الْحِصَان m (ḏayl al-ḥiṣān)

  Egyptian Arabic: ديل حصان m (dél ḥuṣan)

  Gulf Arabic: عنقوص m (ʕangūṣ)

• Bulgarian: конска опашка f (konska opaška)
• Catalan: cua (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬尾辮 / 马尾辫 (zh) (mǎwěibiàn), 馬尾 / 马尾 (zh) (mǎwěi)

• Czech: culík m
• Danish: hestehale (da) c
• Dutch: paardenstaart (nl) m
• Esperanto: ponevosto
• Finnish: poninhäntä (fi)
• French: queue-de-cheval (fr) f
• German: Pferdeschwanz (de) m, Rossschwanz m (Swiss German)
• Greek: αλογοουρά (el) f (alogoourá)
• Hebrew: קוּקוּ (he) m (kúku), זנב סוס (znáv-sús)
• Hungarian: lófarok (hu)
• Icelandic: tagl (is) n, stertur m
• Indonesian: kuncir kuda
• Irish: pónaí m
• Italian: coda di cavallo f
• Japanese: ポニーテール (ja) (ponītēru)
• Korean: 포니테일 (poniteil)
• Macedonian: ко́њска о́пашка f (kónjska ópaška), о́павче n (ópavče)
• Norman: coue d'ponîn f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hestehale m

  Nynorsk: hestehale m

• Polish: kucyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: rabo de cavalo (pt) m
• Romanian: coadă (ro)
• Russian: ко́нский хвост m (kónskij xvost), хво́стик (ru) m (xvóstik)
• Spanish: coleta (es) f, coletilla (es) f, cola de caballo (es) f, hopo (es) m, kiki (es) m (small, colloquial), quiqui m (small, colloquial)
• Swedish: hästsvans (sv) c
• Tagalog: puyod
• Thai: หางม้า (hǎang-máa)
• Turkish: atkuyruğu (tr)
• Welsh: cynffon merlen f

Verb

ponytail (third-person singular simple present ponytails, present participle ponytailing, simple past and past participle ponytailed)

1. (transitive) To form (the hair) into a ponytail.
   • 2017, A. W. Hartoin, Brain Trust:

     “Don't mention it,” she said, ponytailing her hair and then sockbunning it with amazing speed.

See also

• pigtail