See also: Hit, HIT, hít, and -hit

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

hit

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hittite.

EnglishEdit

 hit on Wikipedia

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /hɪt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English hitten (to hit, strike, make contact with), from Old English hittan (to meet with, come upon, fall in with), from Old Norse hitta (to strike, meet), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (to come upon, find), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew).

Cognate with Icelandic hitta (to meet), Danish hitte (to find), Latin caedō (to kill), Albanian qit (to hit, throw, pull out, release).

VerbEdit

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

  1. (heading, physical) To strike.
    1. (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
      One boy hit the other.
      • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., [], →OCLC:
        Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
      • 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves:
        He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
      • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 15]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC:
        Bello: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
        Bello: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell []
      • 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game:
        I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
    2. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
      The ball hit the fence.
      • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. [] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: [] Benj[amin] Motte, [], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
        a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
      • 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance:
        Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
    3. (intransitive) To strike against something.
      • a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: [], London: [] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, [], published 1706, →OCLC:
        If bodies be extension alone, [] how can they move and hit one against another?
    4. (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
      Hit the Enter key to continue.
    5. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
      Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
      • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
        FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.
    6. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
      If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
    7. (figurative, transitive, intransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
      Their coffee really hits the spot.
      I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
  2. (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
    I hit the jackpot.
    Antonym: miss
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
    Antonyms: cut, kill
    Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
  4. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
    We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
  5. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
    You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
    We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
  6. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
    1. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
      The movie hits theaters in December.
      The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
      We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
      • 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, in Guardian Unlimited[1]:
        And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
    2. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
    3. To guess; to light upon or discover.
  7. (transitive) To affect negatively.
    The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
  8. (figuratively) To attack.
    • 2016 March 3, Nick Gass, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump on small hands: 'I guarantee you there's no problem'”, in Politico[2]:
      I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?
  9. (heading, games) To make a play.
    1. (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
      Hit me.
    2. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
      Jones hit for the pitcher.
    3. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
  10. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
    The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
  11. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
    I'd hit that!
  12. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
    • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown[3], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
      Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
  13. (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
    This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
  14. (transitive, bodybuilding) to work out
    With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
  • (manage to touch in the right place): miss
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from hit (verb)
TranslationsEdit
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NounEdit

hit (plural hits)

  1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
    The hit was very slight.
  2. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
    • 1848, “Her Majesty's Theatre”, in The Musical World[4], volume 23:
      Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season []
    • 2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[5]:
      Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.
  3. An attack on a location, person or people.
  4. A collision of a projectile with the target.
    • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
      But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
    1. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
  5. (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
  6. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
    My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
  7. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  8. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
    The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
  9. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
    Where am I going to get my next hit?
  10. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  11. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
    a happy hit
  12. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
  13. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Catalan: hit
  • Czech: hit
  • Danish: hit
  • Dutch: hit
  • Japanese: ヒット (hitto)
  • Polish: hit
  • Portuguese: hit
  • Russian: хит (xit)
  • Spanish: hit
  • Swedish: hit
TranslationsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit

hit (not comparable)

  1. Very successful.
    The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English hit (it), from Old English hit (it), from Proto-Germanic *hit (this, this one), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (this, here). Cognate with Dutch het (it). More at it. Note 'it.

PronounEdit

hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

  1. (dialectal) It.
    • 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
      But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
    • 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
      Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • hit at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • hit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

AnagramsEdit

Alemannic GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old High German hiutu, from hiu +‎ tagu, a calque of Latin hodie. Cognate with German heute, Dutch heden.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

hit

  1. (Alsatian) today
    Hit isch dr Jean-Pierre so drüri.Jean-Pierre is so sad today.

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English hit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit m (plural hits)

  1. hit (something very successful)
    Synonym: èxit
    • 2020 February 6, Time Out Barcelona[6], volume 583, page 8, column Sèries:
      Us passareu els capítols amb el Shazam obert buscant els hits que sonen.
      You'll spend the episodes with Shazam open, searching for the hits that play.

ReferencesEdit

ChamorroEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

hit

  1. we, us (inclusive)

Usage notesEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar[7], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

ChineseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English hit.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

hit

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) hit; popular

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English hit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit m

  1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)
    Synonym: šlágr

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English hit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit n (singular definite hittet, plural indefinite hit or hits)

  1. hit (something very successful)

InflectionEdit

Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English hit.

NounEdit

hit m (plural hits, diminutive hitje n)

  1. A hit song, a very popular and successful song.
  2. (by extension) A success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry).
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Shortening of Hitlander (Shetlander).

NounEdit

hit m (plural hitten, diminutive hitje n or hitske n)

  1. (dated) A Shetland pony.
  2. (dated, regional) Any pony or small horse.
Derived termsEdit

FrenchEdit

NounEdit

hit m (plural hits)

  1. hit (popular song)
  2. hit (success)

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From hisz (to believe).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit (plural hitek)

  1. faith, belief
  2. (archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative hit hitek
accusative hitet hiteket
dative hitnek hiteknek
instrumental hittel hitekkel
causal-final hitért hitekért
translative hitté hitekké
terminative hitig hitekig
essive-formal hitként hitekként
essive-modal
inessive hitben hitekben
superessive hiten hiteken
adessive hitnél hiteknél
illative hitbe hitekbe
sublative hitre hitekre
allative hithez hitekhez
elative hitből hitekből
delative hitről hitekről
ablative hittől hitektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
hité hiteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
hitéi hitekéi
Possessive forms of hit
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hitem hiteim
2nd person sing. hited hiteid
3rd person sing. hite hitei
1st person plural hitünk hiteink
2nd person plural hitetek hiteitek
3rd person plural hitük hiteik

Derived termsEdit

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions

Further readingEdit

  • hit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

LashiEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

hit

  1. here

DeterminerEdit

hit

  1. this

ReferencesEdit

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[8], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

LimburgishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch hit, from English hit.

NounEdit

hit f

  1. (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)

Usage notesEdit

Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.

InflectionEdit

Inflection
Root singular Root plural Diminutive singular Diminutive plural
Nominative hit hits hitje hitjes
Genitive hit hits hitjes hitjes
Locative hittes hitteser hitteske hitteskes
Dative¹²
Accusative¹²
  • Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
  • The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.

Middle DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

hit

  1. Alternative form of het

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English hit, from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (this, this one), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (this, here).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

hit (accusative hit, genitive hit, his, possessive determiner hit, his)

  1. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
  2. Sometimes used in reference to a child or man: he, she
  3. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
  4. Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
  5. (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it

DescendantsEdit

See alsoEdit

DeterminerEdit

hit (nominative pronoun hit)

  1. Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it

ReferencesEdit

Min NanEdit

For pronunciation and definitions of hit – see (“that; those; he; she; it; etc.”).
(This character, hit, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of .)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

hit

  1. here (to this place), hither
    Kom hit!
    Come here!

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.

AdverbEdit

hit

  1. here (to this place), hither
    Kom hit!
    Come here!
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse hít. Compare Faroese hít (condom).

NounEdit

hit f (definite singular hita, indefinite plural hiter, definite plural hitene)

  1. a leather bag (usually made from a hide in a single piece)
  2. (dialectal, derogatory) used of a woman, especially in compounds
Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “hit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “hit”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Old DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *hit.

PronounEdit

hit

  1. it

Alternative formsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle Dutch: het
    • Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
    • Limburgish: hèt

Further readingEdit

  • hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *hit (this, this one), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (this, here). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (it), Old High German iz (it), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, it). More at .

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

hit n (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)

  1. it

DeclensionEdit


DescendantsEdit

Old NorseEdit

EtymologyEdit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ArticleEdit

hit

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of hinn

DeclensionEdit

Old WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *siti- (length).

ConjunctionEdit

hit

  1. until

DescendantsEdit

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English hit, from Middle English hitten, from Old English hittan, from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit m inan

  1. (music) hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective

Further readingEdit

  • hit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • hit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English hit.

PronunciationEdit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁit͡ʃ/ [ˈhit͡ʃ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈχi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁit͡ʃ/ [ˈχit͡ʃ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁit͡ʃ/ [ˈhit͡ʃ], /ˈʁi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhi.t͡ʃi]

NounEdit

hit m (plural hits)

  1. hit (success, especially in the entertainment industry)
    Synonym: êxito

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • hit” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English hit.

NounEdit

hit n (plural hituri)

  1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

DeclensionEdit

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English hit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit m (plural hits)

  1. hit (success)
    Synonym: éxito

SwedishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Swedish hit, from *+at.

Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.

 
Pressing the button marked Hit will make the lift come to the floor where the button is located.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

hit (not comparable)

  1. here; to here, hither
    Antonym: dit (to there, thither)
    Jag kom hit igår
    I came here ("to here") yesterday
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From English hit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit c

  1. (informal) hit; something very popular. (A book, a movie, a song, ...)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hit 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hit hitten hittar hittarna
Genitive hits hittens hittars hittarnas

VolapükEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English heat. Compare German Hitze.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hit (nominative plural hits)

  1. heat, warmth

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit