hashtag
English edit
Etymology edit
From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) + tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter,[1][2] modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.[3]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hashtag (plural hashtags)
- (Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content. [from 2007]
- 2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552
- I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter
- 2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets:
- You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.
- 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:
- While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.
- 2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
- The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.
- 2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552
- (Internet, informal) The hash sign itself, when used as part of a hashtag.
- 2016, Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 40:
- I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.
- 2018, John Allison, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, →ISBN, page n.p.:
- You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → German: Hashtag
- → Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)
- → Polish: hashtag
- → Russian: хеште́г (xɛštɛ́g)
- → Ukrainian: геште́ґ (heštég)
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Verb edit
hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)
- (transitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Chris Messina (2007 August 23) Twitter[1], archived from the original on 2013-11-09: “how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?”
- ^ Chris Messina (2007 August 25) “Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels”, in factoryjoe.com[2], archived from the original on 2007-10-12, retrieved 23 August 2017
- ^ Stowe Boyd (2007 August 26) “Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings”, in stoweboyd.com[3], archived from the original on 2013-01-12
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English hashtag.
Noun edit
hashtag
Declension edit
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hashtag | hashtagget | hashtags | hashtaggene |
genitive | hashtags | hashtaggets | hashtags' | hashtagsenes |
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English hashtag.
Pronunciation edit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aʃ.taɡ/
Audio (file)
Noun edit
hashtag m (plural hashtags)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “hashtag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hashtag (plural hashtagek)
- (Internet) hashtag
- 2013 August 18, Dia Sákovics, “Miért osztjuk meg a neten a vacsoránk?”, in Origo[4], retrieved 2015-02-06:
- Az Instragramon több mint 40 millió fotó található a food hashtag alatt […]
- There are more than 40 million photos under the food hashtag on Instagram […]
- 2014 October 2, “Nyolc magyar a legnagyobb újítók között”, in Origo[5], retrieved 2015-02-06:
- A New Europe 100-as listára bárki jelölhetett embereket a honlapon adott ajánlással vagy Twitteren a #NE100 hashtag használatával.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | hashtag | hashtagek |
accusative | hashtaget | hashtageket |
dative | hashtagnek | hashtageknek |
instrumental | hashtaggel | hashtagekkel |
causal-final | hashtagért | hashtagekért |
translative | hashtaggé | hashtagekké |
terminative | hashtagig | hashtagekig |
essive-formal | hashtagként | hashtagekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | hashtagben | hashtagekben |
superessive | hashtagen | hashtageken |
adessive | hashtagnél | hashtageknél |
illative | hashtagbe | hashtagekbe |
sublative | hashtagre | hashtagekre |
allative | hashtaghez | hashtagekhez |
elative | hashtagből | hashtagekből |
delative | hashtagről | hashtagekről |
ablative | hashtagtől | hashtagektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
hashtagé | hashtageké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
hashtagéi | hashtagekéi |
Possessive forms of hashtag | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | hashtagem | hashtagjeim |
2nd person sing. | hashtaged | hashtagjeid |
3rd person sing. | hashtagje | hashtagjei |
1st person plural | hashtagünk | hashtagjeink |
2nd person plural | hashtagetek | hashtagjeitek |
3rd person plural | hashtagjük | hashtagjeik |
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hashtag m inan
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | hashtag | hashtagi |
genitive | hashtagu/hashtaga | hashtagów |
dative | hashtagowi | hashtagom |
accusative | hashtag | hashtagi |
instrumental | hashtagiem | hashtagami |
locative | hashtagu | hashtagach |
vocative | hashtagu | hashtagi |
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hashtag f or m (plural hashtags)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hashtag m (plural hashtags)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.