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Horse
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English hors .
Pronunciation
Noun
horse (plural horses)
- A large hoofed animal (scientific name Equus caballus).
- Any animal of the same family as the horse, such as the zebra or the ass.
- Any of several extinct animal species thought to be ancestors of the present horse.
- A piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top, used in gymnastics.
- (chess; rare) A knight.
- (slang) Heroin.
Synonyms
Translations
large hoofed animal
- Arabic: خيل حصان فرس
- Albanian: kali
- Anglo-Saxon: hors n, eoh n
- Asturian: caballu
- Basque: zaldi
- Belarusian: конь kon'
- Bosnian: konj m
- Breton: marc’h
- Bulgarian: кон m (kon)
- Catalan: cavall
- Cebuano: kabayo
- CJKV Characters: 馬, 马; 驦, 骦; 雒
- Chinese: 馬, 马 (mǎ)
- Croatian: konj
- Czech: kůň
- Danish: hest
- Dutch: paard n
- Esperanto: ĉevalo
- Estonian: hobu , hobune
- Faroese: hestur , ross
- Farsi: اسب (asb )
- Finnish: hevonen
- French: cheval m (plural chevaux)
- Frisian: hynder
- Friulian: cjaval
- Galician: cabalo
- German: Pferd n
- Greek, Ancient: ίππος (hippos) (el )
- Greek, Modern: άλογο (alogo)
- Guarani: kavaju
- Hebrew: סוס (Sous) m
- Hungarian: ló
- Icelandic: hestur (hross)
- Ido: kavalo
- Interlingua: cavallo m
- Irish: capall , each
- Italian: cavallo m
- Japanese: 馬 (うま , ウマ , uma)
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- Kannada: (Kudure)
- Korean: 말 (mal)
- Ladin: ciaval
- Latin: equus m, caballus m
- Latvian: zirgs
- Lithuanian: arklys
- Lower Sorbian: koń
- Macedonian: коњ (konj )
- Maltese: żiemel
- Manchu: morin
- Nahuatl: cahuayo
- Norwegian: hest
- Occitan: caval
- Old English: eoh
- O'odham: kaviyu
- Polish: koń
- Portuguese: cavalo
- Romanian: cal
- Romansh: chaval
- Romany: grast , harmasari m grasni f
- Russian: лошадь f, конь m (lošad', kon')
- Sami: heasta
- Sardinian: cubaddu , acchettu , coallu
- Scottish: each
- Serbian: коњ /konj
- Slovak: kôň m noun (kone pl); konský -á -é adj
- Slovenian: konj m
- Spanish: caballo m, yegua f
- Swedish: häst c
- Tagalog: kabayo
- Tibetan: རྟ་ (rta)
- Turkish: at, beygir
- Tzotzil: k'a
- Ukrainian: кінь (kin' )
- Upper Sorbian: kóń
- Urdu: گهوڑا
- Welsh: ceffyl
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animal of the same family as the horse
extinct animal
gymnastic equipement
knight in chess
See knight
slang: heroin
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is not necessarily correct.
- Dutch: bok m
- Swedish: häst (5, 6); hingst (2); hästdjur (3); bock (5)
Derived terms
Derived phrases
- change horses in midstream
- dark horse
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- flog a dead horse
- from the horse's mouth
- get off one's high horse
- hold your horses
- horse around
- horses for courses
- I could eat a horse
- straight from the horse's mouth
- swap horses in midstream
- work like a horse
See also
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