Don Quixote

English

Don Quixote of La Mancha and Sancho Panza, by Gustave Doré, 1863

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Don Quixote, the older spelling of modern Spanish Don Quijote.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɒn kiːˈhəʊtɪ/, /dɒn ˈkwɪksəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑn kiˈhoʊti/, /ˌdɑn kiˈhoʊteɪ/
• Rhymes: -əʊti

Proper noun

Don Quixote

1. A famous 1605–1615 Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), whose full title is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha).
2. The protagonist of this novel.

Derived terms

• Don Quixotesque
• Don Quixotic
• quixotic

 

Translations

the protagonist of a famous Spanish novel

• Albanian: Don Kishoti m
• Arabic: دُون كِيشُوت m (dūn kīšūt), دُون كِيخُوتِي m (dūn kīḵūtī)
• Aragonese: Don Quixot m
• Armenian: Դոն Քիշոտ (Don Kʻišot), Դոն Կիխոտ (hy) (Don Kixot)
• Asturian: Don Quixote m
• Azerbaijani: Don Kixot
• Basque: On Kixote m
• Bavarian: Don Quijote m
• Belarusian: Дон Кіхо́т m (Don Kixót)
• Bengali: ডন কিহোতে (ḍon kihōte)
• Breton: Don Quijote m
• Bulgarian: Дон Кихот m (Don Kihot)
• Catalan: Don Quixot m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 唐吉訶德／唐吉诃德 (tong⁴ gat¹ ho¹ dak¹), 吉訶德大人／吉诃德大人 (gat¹ ho¹ dak¹ daai⁶ jan⁴)

  Hokkien: Don Quixote

  Mandarin: 堂吉訶德／堂吉诃德 (zh) (Táng Jíhēdé), 吉訶德大人／吉诃德大人 (Jíhēdé-dàrén)

• Czech: Don Quijote m
• Dutch: Don Quichot m
• Esperanto: Donkiĥoto
• Finnish: Don Quijote
• French: Don Quichotte (fr) m
• Galician: Don Quixote m
• Georgian: დონ კიხოტი (don ḳixoṭi)
• German: Don Quichotte (de) m, (less often) Don Quixote (de), Don Quijote (de)
• Greek: Δον Κιχώτης (el) m (Don Kichótis)
• Hebrew: דוֹן קִישׁוֹט m (Don Kishót), דוֹן קִיחוֹטֶה m (Don Kikhóteh)
• Hungarian: Don Quijote
• Icelandic: Don Kíkóti m
• Indonesian: Don Kisot, Don Kihote
• Italian: Don Chisciotte m
• Japanese: ドン・キホーテ (Don Kihōte)
• Korean: 돈 키호테 (Don Kihote)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Don Kîşot

• Latin: Dominus Quixotus m
• Latvian: Dons Kihots m
• Lithuanian: Don Kichotas m
• Macedonian: Дон Ки́хот m (Don Kíhot)
• Malayalam: ഡോൺ ക്വിൿസോട്ട് (ḍōṇ kviksōṭṭŭ)
• Marathi: डॉन क्विक्झोट m (ḍŏn kvikjhoṭ), दॉन किहोते m (dŏn kihote)
• Newar: दन किहोते (dana kihote)
• Occitan: Don Quichòte m
• Persian: دن کیشوت (fa) (don kišot)
• Polish: Don Kichot m, Donkiszot m
• Portuguese: Dom Quixote m
• Punjabi: ਦੌਨ ਕੀਹੋਤੇ m (daun kīhote)
• Romanian: Don Quijote m
• Russian: Дон Кихо́т m (Don Kixót)
• Sicilian: Don Chisciotti m
• Slovene: Don Kihot m
• Spanish: Don Quijote m, Don Quixote m
• Swedish: Don Quijote c
• Tamil: டான் குய்க்ஸோட் (ṭāṉ kuyksōṭ)
• Thai: ดอนกิโฆเต้ (Don Gì-koh-dtây)
• Tibetan: ཐང་རྗི་ཁོཏ (thang rji khot)
• Turkish: Don Kişot
• Turkmen: Don Kihot
• Ukrainian: Дон Кіхо́т m (Don Kixót)
• Urdu: ڈان کے خوتے m (ḍān ke-hote)
• Venetian: Don Chissote m
• Vietnamese: Đôn Ki-hô-tê, Đông Ki-sốt
• Welsh: Don Quixote m
• West Frisian: Don Quichot m
• Yiddish: דאָן קיכאָטע m (don kikhote)

Noun

Don Quixote (plural Don Quixotes)

1. (also attributive) Any person or character who displays quixotism.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     But he was a born leader. As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.

   • 2012, Claire B. Gunnels, Susan E. Green, Patricia M. Butler, Joint Libraries: Models That Work, page 161:

     […] while joint libraries are wonderful endeavors, which may or may not be a part of our future, they also represent the best of human cooperation for the greater good. This book is dedicated to these Don Quixotes of the library world.

Derived terms

• Quixote
• quixotic
• quixotism
• quixotry

 

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Don Quixote, the older spelling of modern Spanish Don Quijote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdon kiˈʃote/, [ˌd̪õŋ kiˈɕo.t̪e]

Proper noun

Don Quixote m

1. Don Quixote (the protagonist of a famous Spanish novel)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɔn kiˈʃɔt(ə)/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Don Quixote m (proper noun, strong, genitive Don Quixotes or (with an article) Don Quixote)

1. Alternative spelling of Don Quichotte

Spanish

Etymology

From Quixano (modern Spanish Quijano), his actual surname, + -ote.

Proper noun

Don Quixote m

1. Obsolete spelling of Don Quijote (the original spelling)