gelding

English

Etymology

From Middle English geldyng, geldynge, from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”), equivalent to geld (“to castrate”) +‎ -ing (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
2. Any castrated male animal.
3. (archaic) A eunuch.
   • Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38

     They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

castrated male horse

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 騸馬, 骟马 (sin³ maa⁵)

  Mandarin: 騸馬 (zh), 骟马 (zh) (shànmǎ)

• Czech: valach (cs) m
• Dutch: ruin (nl) m
• Faroese: geldingur m
• Finnish: ruuna (fi), valakka (fi)
• French: hongre (fr) m
• German: Wallach (de) m
• Hungarian: herélt
• Irish: gearrán m
• Italian: castrone m
• Japanese: 騸馬 (せんば, senba)
• Latin: cabo m
• Malay: kuda kembiri
• Maori: tāriana poka, hōiho poka

• Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠳᠠ (aɣda), ᠠᠭᠳᠠ
  ᠮᠣᠷᠢ (aɣda mori)
• Navajo: łį́į́ʼ bichoʼ ádinii, łį́į́ʼ bichoʼ haaʼnil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vallak (no) m

  Nynorsk: vallak m

• Persian: جرده‎ (fa) (jorde)
• Polish: wałach (pl) m
• Portuguese: capão (pt) m
• Russian: ме́рин (ru) m (mérin)
• Scots: staig
• Scottish Gaelic: gearran m
• Slovak: valach m
• Spanish: caballo capón m, caballo castrado m
• Swedish: valack (sv) c
• Volapük: hojevod (vo), (obsolete) ömjeval

castrated male animal

• Hungarian: herélt
• Maori: raho poka
• Portuguese: castrado (pt) m

• Russian: кастри́рованное живо́тное n (kastrírovannoje živótnoje), вол (ru) m (vol) (ox), кастра́т (ru) m (kastrát)
• Spanish: capón m
• Volapük: (generic) honim, (mule) homulud, (hinny) hohinud, (cat) hokat, (dog) hodog (vo), (ox) hobub (vo), (zebra) hosebrad

eunuch — see eunuch

Verb

gelding

1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

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Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +‎ -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛltiŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛltiŋk

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

declension of gelding

f-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gelding	geldingin	geldingar	geldingarnar
accusative	geldingu	geldinguna	geldingar	geldingarnar
dative	geldingu	geldingunni	geldingum	geldingunum
genitive	geldingar	geldingarinnar	geldinga	geldinganna

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)