hoof

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hoof

Etymology edit

From Middle English hoof, hof, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).

Pronunciation edit

(US) enPR: ho͝of, ho͞of, IPA^(key): /hʊf/, /huːf/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -uːf, -ʊf

Noun edit

hooves of a horse.

hoof (plural hoofs or hooves)

The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
(slang, derogatory) The human foot.
Get your hooves off me!
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 110:
  He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.
(geometry, dated) An ungula.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

hoofed

Translations edit

tip of a toe of ungulates

Albanian: thundër (sq) f
Arabic: حافِر m (ḥāfir), ظِلْف m (ẓilf), خُفّ m (ḵuff)
Egyptian Arabic: حافر m (ḥāfir)
Armenian: սմբակ (hy) (smbak), կճղակ (hy) (kčġak), պճեղ (hy) (pčeġ)
Asturian: pezuña f
Avestan: 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa)
Azerbaijani: dırnaq (az)
Baluchi: سرنب (surunb), سرمب (surumb), سرم (surum)
Bashkir: тояҡ (toyaq)
Basque: apo, apatx
Bats: ჭალკო̆ (č̣alḳŏ)
Belarusian: капы́т m (kapýt)
Bengali: খুর (bn) (khur)
Bulgarian: копи́то (bg) n (kopíto)
Burmese: ခွာ (my) (hkwa)
Buryat: туруун (turuun)
Catalan: peülla (ca) f
Central Sierra Miwok: háṭ·e·-
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蹄 (zh) (tí), 蹢 (zh) (dí)
Chukchi: яйпыԓгын (jajpyḷgyn), ейпыт pl (ejpyt)
Chuvash: чӗрне (čĕrne)
Crimean Tatar: tuyaq
Czech: kopyto (cs) n
Danish: hov c
Dongxiang: ghimusun
Dutch: hoef (nl) m
Egyptian:

(wḥmt f)
Esperanto: hufo
Estonian: kabi
Faroese: hógvur m
Finnish: kavio (fi), sorkka (fi) (hoof of artiodactyls)
French: sabot (fr) m
Galician: pesuño m, presuño m, uña (gl) f, pezuño m, vaso (gl) m
Georgian: ჩლიქი (čliki)
German: Huf (de) m
Greek: οπλή (el) f (oplí)
Ancient: ὁπλή f (hoplḗ)
Haitian Creole: zago
Hebrew: פַּרְסָה (he) f (parsa)
Hindi: खुर (hi) m (khur)
Hungarian: pata (hu)
Icelandic: hófur (is) m, klauf f
Indonesian: kuku (id)
Irish: crúb f
Italian: zoccolo (it) m
Japanese: 蹄 (ja) (hizume)
Kalmyk: турун (turun)
Kazakh: тұяқ (tūäq)
Khmer: ក្រចក (km) (krɑcɑɑk) (also :nail", "claw")
Korean: 굽 (ko) (gup)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: sim (ku) m
Kyrgyz: туяк (ky) (tuyak)
Lao: ກີບ (lo) (kīp)
Latin: ungula f
Latvian: nags (lv) m
Lithuanian: kanopa f
Macedonian: копито n (kopito)
Malay: telapuk, huf
Malayalam: കുളമ്പ് (ml) (kuḷampŭ)
Manchu: ᡶᠠᡨᡥᠠ (fatha)
Maori: pāua, kuku
Mingrelian: ჩირქე (čirke)
Mongolian: туурай (mn) (tuuraj)
Norman: chabot m, chavette f, cône du pied (Sark)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hov m

Nynorsk: hov m or f
Old English: hōf m
Old Norse: hófr m
Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰆𐰖𐰆𐰍 (t¹uy¹uǧ)
Ossetian: сӕфтӕг (sæftæg)
Ottoman Turkish: طویناق (toynaq), طرناق (tırnaq)
Pashto: سوه (ps) f (swa), څوه f (cwa)
Persian: سم (fa) (som), سپل (fa) (sapal)
Polish: kopyto (pl) n
Portuguese: casco (pt) m, pata (pt) f, pezunho (pt) m
Quechua: sillu
Romanian: copită (ro) f
Russian: копы́то (ru) n (kopýto)
Sanskrit: शफ (sa) m (śapha)
Scottish Gaelic: ladhar m, ìne f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̀пито n

Roman: kòpito (sh) n
Shor: туйғақ
Sinhalese: කුර ? (kura)
Slovak: kopyto n
Slovene: kopíto (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kopyto n

Upper Sorbian: kopyto n
Spanish: pezuña (es) f, casco (es) m
Swahili: ukwato
Swedish: hov (sv) c, klöv (sv) c
Tajik: сум (sum)
Tamil: குளம்பு (ta) (kuḷampu)
Taos: kòwmą̏celéna
Tatar: тояк (tt) (toyak)
Telugu: గిట్ట (te) (giṭṭa)
Thai: กีบ (th) (gìip)
Tibetan: རྨིག་པ (rmig pa)
Turkish: tırnak (tr) (lit., nail; to express the hoof of a particular animal, give the animal's name first, then tırnağı: e.g., cow hoof = inek tırnağı), toynak (tr)
Turkmen: toýnak
Tuvan: дуюг (duyug)
Ukrainian: копи́то n (kopýto), копито́ n (kopytó)
Urdu: کھر m (khur)
Uyghur: تۇياق (ug) (tuyaq)
Uzbek: tuyoq (uz)
Vietnamese: guốc (vi), móng (vi)
Volapük: saf (vo)
Welsh: carn (cy) m
Yakut: туйах (tuyaq)
Yiddish: קאָפּעטע ? (kopete)

slang: human foot

Finnish: sorkka (fi)
Haitian Creole: zago
Italian: zampa (it) f
Portuguese: pata (pt) f

Verb edit

hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs, present participle hoofing, simple past and past participle hoofed)

To trample with hooves.
(colloquial) To walk.
(informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
(colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.
Synonym: boot