hoof

See also: Hoof

English

Etymology

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

• (US) enPR: ho͝of, ho͞of, IPA^(key): /hʊf/, /huːf/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːf, -ʊf

Noun

hooves of a horse.

hoof (plural hoofs or hooves)

2. The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
4. (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.

6. (geometry, dated) An ungula.
7. The heel of a loaf of bread.

Derived terms

• ale-hoof
• beat the hoof
• beef on the hoof
• beef to the hoof
• cloven hoof
• hoof-and-mouth disease
• hoof fungus
• hoof-mark
• hoof pick
• hoofprint
• horse's hoof
• hot-hoof
• iron hoof
• on the hoof
• pad the hoof
• show the cloven hoof
• steak on the hoof

Related terms

• hoofed

Translations

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

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

1. To trample with hooves.
2. (colloquial) To walk.
3. (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
4. (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.

   Synonym: boot

Alternative forms

• hoove

Derived terms

• hoofer
• hoof it

 

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hoofd, Middle Dutch hovet, from Old Dutch hōvit, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą. Doublet of sjef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦʊə̯f/

• Audio:

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Noun

hoof (plural hoofde)

1. head

Derived terms

• doodshoof
• hoofpyn
• hoofstad
• hoofstuk

 

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• Hoff (Eupen)
• haof
• hoaf (Southeast Limburgish)
• Hooef (Krefeld)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch hof, from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.

Noun

hoof m

1. garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)