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English
Etymology
From Middle English hate ( noun ) , probably from Old English hatian ( “ to hate ” , verb ) and/or Old Norse hatr ( “ hate ” , noun ) . Merged with Middle English hete , hæte , heate ( “ hate ” ) , from Old English hete , from Proto-Germanic *hataz ( “ hatred, hate ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- ( “ strong emotion ” ) . Cognate with West Frisian haat , Dutch haat , German Hass , Danish had , Norwegian and Swedish hat .
The verb is from Middle English haten , from Old English hatian ( “ to hate, treat as an enemy ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *hatēn , from Proto-Germanic *hatāną ( “ to hate ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *hataz , from the same root as above.
Pronunciation
Noun
hate (countable and uncountable , plural hates )
An object of hatred.
One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.
Hatred .
He gave me a look filled with pure hate .
( Internet slang ) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Lady Gaga from her fans.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
negative interaction in Internet
Verb
hate (third-person singular simple present hates , present participle hating , simple past and past participle hated )
( transitive ) To dislike intensely or greatly.
1997 , Popular Science , volume 251 , number 4, page 34 :People who hate broccoli may have super-sensitive taste buds.
( intransitive ) To experience hatred .
( informal , originally African-American Vernacular ) Used in a phrasal verb: hate on .
I put ranch dressing on pizza. Please don't hate on me.
Usage notes
Conjugation
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to dislike intensely
Afrikaans: haat (af)
Albanian: urrej (sq)
Amharic: መጥላት ( mäṭlat )
Arabic: كَرِهَ ( kariha ) , أَبْغَضَ ( ʔabḡaḍa )
Egyptian Arabic: كره ( kirih ) , بغض ( baḡaḍ )
Armenian: ատել (hy) ( atel )
Aromanian: urãscu
Asturian: odiar
Azerbaijani: nifrət etmək , zəhləsi getmək
Basque: gorrotatu
Belarusian: ненаві́дзець impf ( njenavídzjecʹ )
Bengali: ঘৃণা করা (bn) ( ghrina kora )
Bulgarian: мра́зя (bg) impf ( mrázja ) , ненави́ждам (bg) impf ( nenavíždam )
Burmese: စက်ဆုပ် (my) ( cakhcup ) , မုန်း (my) ( mun: )
Catalan: odiar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 好 憎 ( hou2 zang1 ) , 憎 ( zang1 )
Mandarin: 恨 (zh) ( hèn ) , 討厭 / 讨厌 (zh) ( tǎoyàn ) , 仇恨 (zh) ( chóuhèn ) , 憎 (zh) ( zēng ) , 憎恨 (zh) ( zēnghèn ) , 嫌 (zh) ( xián ) , 恨惡 / 恨恶 (zh) ( hènwù )
Cornish: bos kas gans ( with subject and object reversed )
Czech: nenávidět (cs) impf , nesnášet impf
Danish: hade
Dutch: haten (nl)
Egyptian: (msḏj )
Esperanto: malami (eo)
Estonian: vihkama
Faroese: hata
Finnish: vihata (fi)
French: haïr (fr) , détester (fr)
Friulian: odeâ
Georgian: სიძულვილი ( siʒulvili ) , ეჯავრება ( eǯavreba ) , ზიზღი ( zizɣi )
German: hassen (de)
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 ( hatjan )
Greek: μισώ (el) ( misó ) , απεχθάνομαι (el) ( apechthánomai )
Ancient: μῑσέω ( mīséō )
Haitian Creole: rayi
Hebrew: שָׂנֵא (he) ( sané )
Hindi: घृणा करना ( ghŕṇā karnā )
Hungarian: gyűlöl (hu) , utál (hu)
Icelandic: hata (is)
Ido: odiar (io)
Indonesian: benci (id) , membenci (id)
Irish: is fuath le
Italian: odiare (it)
Japanese: 憎む (ja) ( にくむ, nikumu ) , 嫌う (ja) ( きらう, kirau ) , 厭う (ja) ( いとう, itou ) , 嫌悪する (ja) ( けんおする, ken'o suru )
Kazakh: жек көру ( jek köru )
Khmer: ស្អប់ (km) ( s’ɑp ) , ជិន (km) ( cɨn )
Korean: 싫어하다 (ko) ( sireohada ) , 미워하다 (ko) ( miwohada )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hîlet bûn , nefret kirin (ku) , hîlet bûn
Kyrgyz: жек көрүү ( jek körüü )
Ladino: aborreser
Lao: ກຽດ (lo) ( kīat )
Latgalian: neist
Latin: ōdī ( defective ) , odiō
Latvian: ienīst , neciest
Lithuanian: neapkęsti
Lombard: odià (lmo)
Low German: haten
Luxembourgish: haassen
Macedonian: мрази impf ( mrazi )
Malay: benci (ms)
Malayalam: വെറുക്കുക (ml) ( veṟukkuka )
Maltese: mibegħda , bagħad
Maore Comorian: uyenga , utukiwa na
Maori: mauāhara
Middle English: haten
Mongolian: хорсох (mn) ( xorsox ) , үзэн ядах ( üzen jadax ) , занах (mn) ( zanax )
Navajo: yijoołá
Norman: dêtester
Norwegian: hate (no)
Occitan: asirar (oc) , aissosar
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: ненавидѣти impf ( nenaviděti )
Old English: hatian
Old Norse: hata
Oromo: jibbuu (om)
Pashto: بدوړل ( badwṛǝ́l )
Persian: نفرت داشتن ( nefrat dâštan ) , بیزار بودن ( bizâr budan )
Pitjantjatjara: kuraringanyi
Polish: nienawidzić (pl) impf
Portuguese: odiar (pt)
Quechua: chiqnikuy , chiqniy , cignii , cikii
Romanian: urî (ro)
Romansch: odiar , detestar , hassiar , spretschar
Russian: ненави́деть (ru) impf ( nenavídetʹ )
Sanskrit: द्वेष्टि (sa) ( dvéṣṭi )
Sardinian: odiai , tirriai
Serbo-Croatian: nenávideti impf , нена́видети impf
Cyrillic: мр́зити impf , мр́зети impf
Roman: mŕziti (sh) impf , mŕzeti (sh) impf
Sinhalese: ද්වේෂ කරනවා ( dwēṣa karanawā )
Slovak: nenávidieť impf
Slovene: sovražiti (sl) impf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gramowaś impf , gramjeś impf
Spanish: odiar (es)
Sumerian: 𒄾𒈪𒉭 ( ḪUL.IGI )
Swahili: kuchukia
Swedish: hata (sv)
Tagalog: mapoot
Tajik: нафрат доштан ( nafrat doštan ) , нафрат кардан ( nafrat kardan ) , бад додан ( bad dodan )
Tamil: வெறு (ta) ( veṟu )
Telugu: ఏవగించుకొను ( ēvagiñcukonu ) , అసహ్యించుకొను ( asahyiñcukonu )
Thai: เกลียด (th) ( glìiat )
Tibetan: སྡང ( sdang ) , ཞེ་འཁོན་འཛིན ( zhe 'khon 'dzin ) , ཞེ་ལོག ( zhe log )
Turkish: nefret etmek (tr) , iğrenmek (tr) , tiksinmek (tr) , ikrah etmek (tr) ( archaic )
Turkmen: ýigrenmek , ýigrençmek
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎐𐎀 ( šnả )
Ukrainian: нена́видіти impf ( nenávydity )
Urdu: گھرنا کرنا ( ghŕṇā karnā ) , نفرت کرنا ( nafrat karna )
Uyghur: امان كۆرمەك ( aman körmek ) , نەپرەتلەنمەك ( nepretlenmek )
Uzbek: yomon koʻrmoq , nafratlanmoq (uz)
Vietnamese: ghét (vi)
Welsh: casáu (cy) , bod yn gas gan ( with subject and object reversed )
Yiddish: פֿײַנט האָבן ( faynt hobn ) , האַסן ( hasn )
Zazaki: nefret kerden , qıcığ gıroten
Anagrams
Bola
Noun
hate
liver
References
Cia-Cia
Etymology
From Proto-Celebic *qate , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay , from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay .
Noun
hate (Hangul spelling 하떼 )
( anatomy ) liver ( organ of the body )
References
Van den Berg, Rene (1991). "Preliminary Notes on the Cia-Cia Language," in Excursies in Celebes , pp. 305-324.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
hate
( dated or formal ) singular present subjunctive of haten
Japanese
Romanization
hate
Rōmaji transcription of はて
Middle English
Etymology 1
Most likely a modification of earlier hete (from Old English hete ) after haten , though compare Old Norse hatr .
Pronunciation
Noun
hate (plural hates )
Hate , hatred , anger , wroth .
Synonyms: hatrede , hatynge , hete
Something that causes or induces hate; insults , demeaning words.
The results of hate; enmity , discord , turmoil .
Synonyms: hatrede , hete
( rare ) Something that one hate s.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Verb
hate
Alternative form of haten
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hata .
Verb
hate (imperative hat , present tense hater , passive hates , simple past and past participle hata or hatet , present participle hatende )
to hate (somebody / something)
References
“hate” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse hata .
Pronunciation
Verb
hate (present tense hatar , past tense hata , past participle hata , passive infinitive hatast , present participle hatande , imperative hate /hat )
to hate (someone, something)
References
“hate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Old English
Verb
hāte
first-person singular present indicative of hātan
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hate .
Pronunciation
Noun
hate ? (uncountable )
( Internet , sociology ) hate ( hateful or spiteful comments, especially online )
Declension
singular only
indefinite
definite
nominative-accusative
hate
hate-ul
genitive-dative
hate
hate-ului
vocative
Ternate
Etymology
Does not continue Proto-North Halmahera *gota ( “ tree ” ) . However, compare Proto-Timor-Alor-Pantar *hate ("tree").
Pronunciation
Noun
hate (Jawi هاتي )
tree
wood
( by extension ) woodwork
References
Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890 ) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate , E.J. Brill
Rika Hayami-Allen (2001 ) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia , University of Pittsburgh
Unami
Verb
hate
there is, there exists