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/
• (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
• 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 Kʿišot), 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 (ḍôn kihote)
• Breton: Don Quijote m
• Bulgarian: Дон Кихот m (Don Kihot)
• Catalan: Don Quixot m
• Chinese:

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

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

  Min Nan: Don Quixote

• 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 Quijote (de) m
• Greek: Δον Κιχώτης 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 (ku)

• Latin: Dominus Quixotus m
• Latvian: Dons Kihots m
• Lithuanian: Don Kichotas m
• Malayalam: ഡോൺ ക്വിൿസോട്ട് (ḍōṇ kviksōṭṭŭ)
• Marathi: डॉन क्विक्झोट m (ḍŏn kvikjhoṭ), दॉन किहोते m (dŏn kihote)
• Newar: दन किहोते (dan kihote)
• Occitan: Don Quichòte m
• Persian: دن کیشوت‎ (fa) (don kišot)
• Polish: Don Kichot m
• Portuguese: Dom Quixote m
• Punjabi: ਦੌਨ ਕੀਹੋਤੇ m (daun kīhotē)
• Romanian: Don Quijote m
• Russian: Дон Кихо́т m (Don Kixót)
• Sicilian: Don Chisciotti m
• Slovene: Don Kihot m
• Spanish: Don Quijote 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, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• Quixote
• quixotic
• quixotism
• quixotry

 

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Asturian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Don Quixote m

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

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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)