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English
a dwarf hamster
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat .
Pronunciation
Noun
hamster (plural hamsters )
Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae .
especially of species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster ) and species of genus Phodopus (dwarf hamsters ), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi , mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus , and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus ).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
Afrikaans: hamster
Albanian: lloj brejtësi
Arabic: قَدَاد m ( qadād ) , هَامِسْتَر m ( hāmistar )
Egyptian Arabic: هَامِسْتَر m ( hamestar )
Armenian: համստեր (hy) ( hamster )
Azerbaijani: dağsiçanı
Bashkir: алйырҙан ( alyırźan ) , ирлән ( irlən )
Basque: hamster (eu)
Belarusian: хамя́к m ( xamják )
Breton: hamster
Bulgarian: хомя́к (bg) m ( homják ) , ха́мстер m ( hámster )
Burmese: ဟမ်းစတား ( ham:ca.ta: )
Catalan: hàmster (ca) m
Chechen: оьпа ( öpa )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 倉鼠 / 仓鼠 (zh) ( cāngshǔ )
Czech: křeček (cs) m
Dalmatian: viala f
Danish: hamster (da) c
Dutch: hamster (nl) m
Esperanto: hamstro
Estonian: hamster (et)
Faroese: hamstur m , hamstrari m
Finnish: hamsteri (fi)
French: hamster (fr) m , rat de blé m
Friulian: cricęt
Galician: hámster (gl)
Georgian: ზაზუნა (ka) ( zazuna )
German: Hamster (de) m
Greek: χάμστερ (el) n ( chámster )
Hebrew: אוֹגֵר (he) m ( ogér )
Hindi: हैम्स्टर m ( haimsṭar )
Hungarian: hörcsög (hu)
Icelandic: hamstur (is) m
Ido: hamstro (io)
Interlingua: hamster
Irish: hamstar
Italian: criceto (it) m
Japanese: ハムスター (ja) ( hamusutā ) , 絹毛鼠 ( きぬげねずみ, kinugenezumi ) , キヌゲネズミ ( kinugenezumi )
Karakalpak: balpaq tıshqan
Kazakh: атжалман ( atjalman )
Korean: 햄스터 (ko) ( haemseuteo )
Kumyk: авлакъ чычкъан ( awlaq çıçqan )
Kyrgyz: хомяк ( homyak )
Latvian: kāmis m
Lithuanian: žiurkėnas m
Macedonian: хрчак m ( hrčak )
Malay: tikus belanda
Maltese: ħamster
Mari:
Eastern Mari: арлан ( arlan ) , комаголя ( komagoĺa )
Western Mari: ӓрлӓн ( ärlän ) , ӓрлӓнгы ( ärlängy )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үхэр зусаг ( üxer zusag ) , шишүүхэй (mn) ( šišüüxej )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hamster (no) m
Nynorsk: hamster m
Occitan: amstèr
Old East Slavic: хомѣкъ ( xoměkŭ )
Persian: همستر ( hamestar ) , موش بزرگ ( muš-e bozorg )
Polish: chomik (pl) m
Old Polish: krzeczek m , skrzeczek m
Portuguese: hamster (pt) m
Romanian: hamster (ro) , hârciog (ro)
Romansch: furmanter , raffun , raspun
Russian: хомя́к (ru) m ( xomják )
Scottish Gaelic: hamstair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хр́чак m
Roman: hŕčak (sh) m
Slovak: škrečok (sk) m
Slovene: hrček (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zemcygaŕ m
Upper Sorbian: žurk m
Southern Altai: эрлен ( erlen )
Spanish: hámster (es) m
Swedish: hamster (sv)
Tagalog: hamster
Tajik: миримӯшон ( mirimüšon )
Tatar: әрлән (tt) ( ärlän )
Thai: แฮมสเตอร์ ( hɛms-dtə̂ə )
Turkish: hamster (tr)
Ukrainian: хом'я́к m ( xomʺják )
Uzbek: ogʻmaxon (uz)
Volapük: kriset (vo)
Welsh: bochdew
West Frisian: hamster
See also
Verb
hamster (third-person singular simple present hamsters , present participle hamstering , simple past and past participle hamstered )
( transitive , intransitive ) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
Synonym: stash
1974 , Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life , page 43 :Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.
2004 , Sharon L. Pywell, What Happened to Henry , page 50 :[ …] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored [ …]
2014 , Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain :[ …] eastern children frequently “hamstered ,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform [ …]
Translations
to stash like a hamster, to hoard
References
Further reading
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From German Hamster .
Pronunciation
Noun
hamster c (singular definite hamsteren , plural indefinite hamstere )
a hamster
Declension
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈɦɑmstər/
Hyphenation: ham‧ster
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Hamster .
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsters , diminutive hamstertje n )
hamster
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
hamster
inflection of hamsteren :
first-person singular present indicative
imperative
French
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsters )
hamster
Further reading
German
Verb
hamster
singular imperative of hamstern
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From German Hamster .
Noun
hamster m (definite singular hamsteren , indefinite plural hamstere or hamstre or hamstrer , definite plural hamsterne or hamstrene )
a hamster
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Hamster .
Noun
hamster m (definite singular hamsteren , indefinite plural hamsterar , definite plural hamsterane )
a hamster
References
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsters )
hamster ( small, short-tailed European rodent )
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hamster .
Pronunciation
Noun
hamster m (plural hamsteri )
hamster
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.
Noun
hamster c
a hamster
Declension
Related terms
References
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English hamster .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈhamsteɾ/ ,
Hyphenation: hams‧ter
Noun
hamster (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜋ᜔ᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔ )
hamster
1996 , Emmanuel A. Reyes, Malikhaing pelikula: mga sanaysay tungkol sa pelikulang Pilipino :Ilalagay ni PAUL ang retrato ni Ferdinand at Imelda Marcos sa likod ng kulungan ng mga hamster . (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2020 , TINA LATA, The Good Girl's Revenge :Kung may nasabi man akong hindi maganda, bakit hindi niya sabihin sa 'kin? Hindi naman ako manghuhula para malaman kung anong problema niya. Tiningnan ko 'yong hamster na gusto kong bilhin pero naisip ko si Tammy. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Turkish
Etymology
From English hamster .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) :
Hyphenation: hams‧ter
Noun
hamster (definite accusative hamsteri , plural hamsterler )
hamster
Declension