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hot
( international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code for Hote .
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English
Etymology
From Middle English hot , hat , from Old English hāt , from Proto-Germanic *haitaz ( “ hot ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- ( “ hot; to heat ” ) . Cognate with Scots hate , hait ( “ hot ” ) , North Frisian hiet ( “ hot ” ) , Saterland Frisian heet ( “ hot ” ) , West Frisian hjit ( “ hot ” ) , German heiß ( “ hot ” ) , Danish hed ( “ hot ” ) .
Pronunciation
Adjective
hot (comparative hotter , superlative hottest )
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
( of an object ) Having or giving off a high temperature .
Synonyms: heated ; see also Thesaurus:hot
Antonyms: cold , chilled ; see also Thesaurus:cold
He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
It is too hot to be outside.
It is hotter in summer than in winter.
1977 , Agatha Christie , chapter 4, in An Autobiography , part II, London: Collins , →ISBN :There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; .
2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN :“Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest , the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times , →ISSN :It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter , drier West.
( of a person or animal ) Feeling the sensation of heat , especially to the point of discomfort.
I was so hot from being in the sun too long.
Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
Feverish ; feeling a high fever .
Active , in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
2004 , Phillip Moore, Sealed for a Purpose , page 213 :The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.
2013 , Larry Munson, Tony Barnhart, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson , Triumph Books, →ISBN , page 52 :So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" The microphone was hot , and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.
2014 , Don Carpenter, The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround , Catapult, →ISBN :I leaned forward, still ogling, thinking the camera was off me until the end of the song, but then on went the little red light that meant my camera was hot ...
2017 , Charles Henderson, Terminal Impact , Penguin, →ISBN , page 8:"Your range is hot , corporal. Wind unchanged. You've got your dope. Fire at will," Hacksaw said, snapping the camera as fast as the motor drive could run ...
2017 , Scott Kelly, Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery , Vintage, →ISBN :I join the space-to-ground channel to warn Terry that his mic is hot and that everyone with an internet connection or tuned to NASA TV can hear every word ...
2020 , A.J. Stone, Project Titan , Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN :"The range is hot, chief. Fire at will." Alex says with a smile as he steps back and puts his shooting ear muffs on. "I'm going to shoot, major."
2020 , Ferrett Steinmetz, Automatic Reload: A Novel , Tor Books, →ISBN :I run an inventory, verify all bullets are hot in the chamber. They are. But the showroom prosthetics have all exited attraction mode.
( US , not comparable ) Electrically charged .
Synonym: live
Antonyms: neutral , dead
a hot wire
( informal ) Radioactive .
( figurative ) Relating to excited emotions.
( of a temper ) Easily provoked to anger .
Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
( colloquial , of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive .
Alternative forms: hawt , hott
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:attractive , Thesaurus:beautiful
That stripper is hot !
( colloquial ) Sexual or sexy ; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexy
2010 , Rick R. Reed, Moving Toward The Light , →ISBN , page 50 :There was only one problem. Paul was HIV positive. And just a few weeks after his hot encounter with Max, a letter arrived for him, containing some legalese about HIV infection being a criminal act, with a few chilling words
( slang ) Sexually aroused; randy .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:randy
Enough foreplay! You’ve gotten me so hot already!
( slang ) Extremely attracted to.
hot for her English teacher
Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
( informal ) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
He's a hot young player; we should give him a trial.
Popular ; in demand .
This new pickup is so hot we can't keep it in stock!
2010 , Andy Bradley, Roger Wood, House of Hits , page 206 :And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.
Of great current interest ; provoking current debate or controversy .
a hot topic
1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star , volume 62 , number 11 , Indianapolis, Ind., page 22 :The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
Performing strongly; having repeated successes .
1938 , Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:
"Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.
2002 , Peter Krause, Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf , First Avenue Editions, page 55 :The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.
Fresh ; just released .
1960 , Super Market Institute, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches , page 30 :A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot .
2000 , David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension , Oxford University Press, page 34 :Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot .
Relating to danger or risk.
Uncomfortable , difficult to deal with; awkward , dangerous , unpleasant .
1938 , Daphne de Maurier , Rebecca :The car sped along. She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle. Two motorists we passed looked out of their windows outraged as she swept by, and one pedestrian in a lane waved his stick at her. I felt rather hot for her. She did not seem to notice though. I crouched lower in my seat.
1997 , David Wojnarowicz with Amy Scholder, The Waterfront Journals :I've been living here a few weeks and it's starting to get a little hot for me … I've written myself out of several states in the last six years.
1999 , Sam Llewellyn, The shadow in the sands , page 68 :The police are looking for an anarchist who answers my description, seen leaving the house the day before the fire; there was an explosion So what with one thing and another, His Grace thinks the country a little hot for me now
2004 , Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard , page 197 :"Things are a little hot for us in San Francisco. We'll burn the vardo at Drake's Bay and then head to your place." "Things are hot , so you're heading to my place?" "Hot' s not a big deal. Just a matter of jurisdiction and time.
2008 , Charlaine Harris with Toni L. P. Kelner, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe , page 287 :I'd also thought things might have gotten a little hot for him in Atlantic City, so he'd moved West to its bigger, badder cousin, where he wasn't as well known
( slang ) Characterized by police presence or activity .
I wouldn't speed through here if I was you. This area is hot this time of night.
( slang ) Stolen .
hot merchandise
2010 , Robert Eversz, Burning Garbo: A Nina Zero Novel , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN , page 17 :The camera was hot . Buying a hot camera was a parole violation.
( not comparable , slang , of a draft or check ) Not covered by funds on account .
Synonyms: rubber , bad
I wouldn't trust him. He gave me a hot check last week.
Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
Am I warm yet? — You're hot !
He was hot on her tail.
( of food ) Spicy , pungent , piquant , as some chilis and other spices are.
Antonyms: bland , mild
This kind of chili pepper is way too hot for my taste.
( acoustics ) Loud , producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
( slang ) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
He was finished in a hot minute.
I dated him for a hot second.
( slang , of a vehicle or aircraft ) Extremely fast or with great speed .
That plane's coming in hot !
a hot pass
Derived terms
a bit hot Ainsworth Hot Springs Alabama hot pocket as hot as hell , hot as hell baking hot blow hot and cold boiling hot boiling-hot burning hot Castle Hot Springs catch it hot , get it hot come in hot crash hot crash-hot domestic hot water drop like a hot brick drop like a hot potato drop like a hot skillet egg-hot egghot firehot foothot full-hot full of hot air give it to someone hot give it to someone hot and strong glowing hot go hot and cold go like hot cakes , sell like hot cakes have the hots for hissing hot hot abscess hot ache hot air hot-air balloon hot air balloon hot and bothered hot and cold hot and heavy hot and high hot-and-hot hot and sour soup hot as a pistol hot as blazes hot as fire hot as Hades hot bag hot band hotbar hot bar hot bean hot bed hotbed hot beef hot beef injection hot-beef injection hot bench hot blast hot-blooded hotblooded hot boiled beans hot boot hot bottle hot box , hotbox hot-brain hot-brained hot bread kitchen hot bread shop hot brown hot bulb hot bunk hotbunk hot burglary hot buttered rum hot button hot-button hotcake hot cake hot cargo hot carl hot cathode hot cell hot chair hot chassis hot chat hot check hot chicken hot chips hot chisel hot chocolate hot chocolate effect hot-closet hot closet hotcockles hot cockles hot cocoa hot comb hot coppers hot corino hot corner hot cross bun hot cupboard hot curler hot damn hot dang hot dark matter hot date hot death hot desk hot-desk hot desker hot-desker hot desking hot diggety , hot diggety dog hot diggity hot diggity dog hot-dip hot-dipped hot dipping hotdish hot-dog hot dog hot empathy hot end hot extraction hot favorite , hot favourite hot-fire hotfix hot-flash hot flash , hot flush hot-flue hot folder hotfoot hot from the press , hot off the press hot fudge hot fusion hot genocide hot girl summer hot glue hot glue gun hot gospeler , hot gospeller hot gospeling , hot gospelling hotgun hot hamburger sandwich hot hand hot hatch hot-hatch hot hatchback hothead hot-head hotheaded hot-headed hot-headedness hot-hearted hot hold hot-hoof hot-house , hothouse hot ice hot iron test hot-iron test hot jazz hot jupiter hot Jupiter hot karl hotkey hot-key hot key hot-knife hot lab hot laboratory Hotlanta hot lap hotlapping hot lava hot line , hotline hot link hotlink hotlinking hot lips hotlist hot-livered hotly hot-making hot medium hotmelt hot melt adhesive hot melt glue hot melt , hot-melt adhesive , hot-melt glue hot mess hot metal hot metal typesetting hot mic , hot mike hot microphone hot milk cake hot mint hot minute hot-mix hot money hot-natured hot Neptune hotness hot nickel hot off the presses hot on hot on someone's heels hot on the trail hot panted hot-panted , hot-pantsed hot pants hot particle hot patch , hot-patch hotpath hot pencil hot pepper hot pie hot pink hot pint hot piping hotplate hot-plate hot plate hotplug hot-pluggable hot pool hot poop hot-pot hot pot hotpot hot potato hot-potato routing hot-press hot press hotpress hot-presser hot property hot pursuit hot rail hot reactor hot refuel hot rock hot rodder hot-rodder , hotrodder hot rod , hotrod hot roll hot rolling hot sauce hot saw hot-saw hot seal hot seat hot second hot set hotsheet hot sheet hot-sheet motel hot shift hot shit hot shoe hot shop hot short hot-short hotshot , hot shot hotski hot-skull hot sleeper hot spare hot spell hot-spirited hot spot hot spring Hot Spring County Hot Springs Hot Springs County hotspur hot squat hot-stage hot stamp hot-stopping hot-stove hot stove hot stove league hot streak hot stuff Hot Sulphur Springs hot swap hot-swap hot-swappable hot take hot-takey hot talk hot tamale hot tap hot tapping hot tear hot tearing hot-tempered hotten hotter hotter than a pistol hotter than a two dollar pistol hot ticket hottie hot tiger hotting hottish hot toddy hot top hot to trot hot-to-trot hot trod , hot-trod hot truck hot tub hot-tub hot-tubber hot tubber hot tube hotty hot under the collar hot up hotwalk hot wall hot wallet hot war hotwash hot wash hot water hot water bag hot water bottle hot water bottle rash hot water can hot water heater hot wave hot well hot whiskey hot whisky hot wiener hotwife hot wind hot wing hot-wire hot-wired hot with hotword hot-work , hot work hot-working hot yoga hot ziggety hot zone I'm hot in hot pursuit in the hot seat like a cat on a hot tin roof like a cat on hot bricks like a hen on a hot griddle like a hot knife through butter like hot cakes like throwing a hot dog down a hallway make it hot for , make things hot for more than someone has had hot dinners Nashville hot chicken nonhot not-so-hot not so hot one-hot overhot piping hot process hot water red-hot red hot red-hot minute red-hot poker run hot run hot and cold scalding hot scorching hot searing hot semihot shit hot shit-hot smoking hot steaming hot strike the iron while it's hot strike while the iron is hot superhot the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready three hots and a cot too hot for too hot to handle too hot to hold ultrahot ultra-hot jupiter unhot warm-hot intergalactic medium white-hot white hot
Translations
having a high temperature
Acehnese: please add this translation if you can
Ahom: 𑜍𑜨𑜃𑜫 ( ron )
Ainu: セセㇰ ( sesek ) , セイセㇰ ( seysek )
Albanian: nxehtë (sq)
Arabic: حَارّ (ar) m ( ḥārr ) , سَاخِن ( sāḵin )
Egyptian Arabic: سخن ( suḵn )
Hijazi Arabic: حار ( ḥārr )
Armenian: տաք (hy) ( takʻ )
Assamese: গৰম ( gorom ) , তপত ( topot ) , চেঙা ( seṅa )
Asturian: caliente (ast)
Azerbaijani: isti (az) , qaynar (az) ( boiling-hot ) , qızğın (az)
Baba Malay: pane
Bahnar: tŏ
Bashkir: эҫе ( eśe )
Basque: bero
Belarusian: гара́чы (be) ( haráčy )
Bengali: গরম (bn) ( gorom )
Bikol Central: mainit (bcl)
Breton: tomm (br)
Bulgarian: горе́щ (bg) ( goréšt )
Burmese: ပူ (my) ( pu )
Catalan: calent (ca)
Cebuano: init
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: chpelo
Chechen: довха ( dovxa )
Cherokee: ᎤᏗᎴᎩ ( udilegi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 熱 / 热 ( jit6 )
Dungan: жә ( řə )
Hokkien: 熱 / 热 (zh-min-nan) ( joa̍h, loa̍h ) , 燒 / 烧 (zh-min-nan) ( sio )
Mandarin: 熱 / 热 (zh) ( rè )
Wu: 熱 / 热 ( 8 gniq)
Chukchi: нытгылӄин ( nytgylqin )
Chuvash: вӗри ( vĕri )
Cornish: tomm
Crimean Tatar: issi
Czech: horký (cs) m
Danish: hed (da) , varm (da)
Dhivehi: ހޫނު ( hūnu )
Dolgan: итии ( itii )
Dutch: heet (nl) , warm (nl)
Erzya: пси ( psi )
Esperanto: varma (eo) , varmega
Estonian: kuum (et)
Evenki: хэку ( həku )
Faroese: heitur
Finnish: kuuma (fi)
Franco-Provençal: chôd
French: chaud (fr) , très chaud
Friulian: cjalt , čhald
Galician: quente (gl)
Georgian: ცხელი (ka) ( cxeli )
German: heiß (de)
Greek: ζεστός (el) m ( zestós ) , θερμός (el) ( thermós )
Ancient: θερμός ( thermós ) , ζεστός ( zestós )
Guaraní: aku (h-)
Haitian Creole: cho
Hawaiian: wela
Hebrew: חַם (he) ( kham ) , לוֹהֵט (he) m ( lohét ) ( extremely )
Hiligaynon: mainit
Hindi: गरम (hi) ( garam ) , गर्म (hi) ( garm ) , उष्ण (hi) ( uṣṇa ) , तपित (hi) ( tapit )
Hungarian: ( excessively, unpleasantly ) : forró (hu) , ( pleasantly, moderately ) : meleg (hu)
Icelandic: heitur (is)
Ido: varmega (io)
Ilocano: napudot
Indonesian: panas (id)
Ingrian: kuuma , vari
Ingush: дӏайха ( dˀajxa )
Interlingua: (multo ) calide
Irish: te
Old Irish: té
Isan: ฮ้อน
Italian: caldo (it) , molto caldo , bollente (it)
Iu Mien: jorm
Japanese: 熱い (ja) ( あつい, atsui ) ( water, food )
Javanese: panas (jv)
Jeju: 지접다 ( jijeopda )
Kaingang: rỹ
Kapampangan: mapali
Kashmiri: وُشُن ( vuśun ) , گَرٕم ( garụm ) , تۆت ( tot )
Kazakh: ыстық ( ystyq )
Khmer: ក្ដៅ (km) ( kdaw )
Komi-Permyak: пöсь ( pöś )
Konkani: हून ( hūn )
Korean: 뜨겁다 (ko) ( tteugeopda ) ( external objects )
Kott: afam , fal , phal , paltu , palá , pfóltu
Kumyk: исси ( issi )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گەرم (ckb) ( germ )
Northern Kurdish: germ (ku) , kel (ku)
Kyrgyz: ысык (ky) ( ısık )
Lao: ຮ້ອນ ( hǭn )
Latgalian: korsts
Latin: calidus (la) , igneus (la)
Latvian: karsts (lv)
Lithuanian: karštas
Louisiana Creole French: sho
Lü: ᦣᦸᧃᧉ ( hoan² )
Macedonian: врел ( vrel ) , жежок ( žežok ) , топол ( topol ) ( manageably hot )
Malay: panas (ms)
Malayalam: ചൂട് (ml) ( cūṭŭ )
Maltese: sħun m
Manchu: ᡥᠠᠯᡥᡡᠨ ( halhūn )
Maori: mahana (mi) , wera
Marathi: गरम ( garam ) , तप्त ( tapta )
Moksha: пси ( psi )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: халуун (mn) ( xaluun )
Nanai: пеку ( pjeku )
Naxi: cer
Northern Altai: изиг ( izig )
Northern Thai: ᩁ᩶ᩬᩁ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: het (no) , varm (no)
Occitan: caud (oc) m
Old English: hāt , wearm
Old Saxon: hēt , warm
Oromo: ho'aa
Ossetian: тӕвд ( tævd )
Ottoman Turkish: صیجاق ( sıcak ) , ایصی ( ısı, ıssı )
Pangasinan: ampuetang
Parauk: hax
Pashto: تود (ps) m ( tod ) , توده f ( tawda ) , ګرم ( garëm )
Pennsylvania German: heess
Persian:
Iranian Persian: داغ (fa) ( dâġ )
Polish: gorący (pl)
Portuguese: (muito ) quente (pt)
Quechua: rupha
Rapa Nui: hana
Rohingya: gorom
Romanian: cald (ro) , fierbinte (ro)
Romansch: chaud
Russian: горя́чий (ru) ( gorjáčij ) ( water, food )
S'gaw Karen: ကိၢ် ( koẖ )
Samoan: vevela
Sanskrit: उष्ण (sa) ( uṣṇa ) , तप्त (sa) ( tapta )
Sardinian: caldu
Scottish Gaelic: teth
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вру̑ћ
Roman: vrȗć
Shan: ႁွၼ်ႉ (shn) ( hâ̰un )
Simeulue: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: රස්නෙ ( rasne ) , උණු (si) ( uṇu )
Slovak: horúci
Slovene: vroč (sl)
Somali: kul
Southern Altai: изӱ ( izü )
Spanish: caliente (es) , muy caliente
Swedish: het (sv) , varm (sv)
Sylheti: ꠉꠞꠝ ( goromo )
Tagalog: mainit , nakapapaso
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Long: please add this translation if you can
Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: доғ ( doġ )
Tatar: эссе ( esse )
Telugu: వేడైన ( vēḍaina )
Tetum: manas
Thai: ร้อน (th) ( rɔ́ɔn )
Tibetan: ཚ་པོ ( tsha po )
Tocharian B: emalle
Tongan: vela
Tupinambá: akub (s-)
Turkish: sıcak (tr)
Turkmen: yssy
Tuvan: изиг ( izig ) , хайныышкынныг ( xaynıışkınnıg )
Udi: гам ( gam )
Udmurt: пӧсь ( pöś )
Ukrainian: гаря́чий ( harjáčyj )
Unami: kështeomàlsi ( animate )
Urdu: گَرْم ( garm )
Uyghur: ئىسسىق ( issiq )
Uzbek: issiq (uz)
Venetan: (please verify ) caldo (vec)
Vietnamese: nóng (vi)
Volapük: hitik (vo)
Waray-Waray: init , paso , tub-ok ( Eastern Samar )
Welsh: poeth (cy)
White Hmong: kub
Yakut: итии ( itii )
Yiddish: הייס ( heys )
Yoruba: gbóná
Zazaki: germ (diq) , germ (diq)
Zhuang: ndat
Zulu: fudumele
of the weather
Ainu: シㇼポㇷ゚ケ ( sirpopke )
Arabic: حَرَّان ( ḥarrān ) , حَارّ (ar) ( ḥārr )
Hijazi Arabic: حَرَّان ( ḥarrān ) , حَرّ ( ḥarr ) , حار ( ḥārr )
Armenian: շոգ (hy) ( šog )
Azerbaijani: isti (az)
Bashkir: эҫе ( eśe )
Belarusian: гара́чы (be) ( haráčy ) , жа́ркі ( žárki ) , спяко́тны ( spjakótny )
Bikol Central: mainit (bcl)
Bulgarian: горе́щ (bg) ( goréšt )
Catalan: ( to be hot ) : fer calor
Cebuano: init , alingaang
Chinese:
Cantonese: 熱 / 热 ( jit6 ) , 炎熱 / 炎热 ( jim4 jit6 )
Dungan: жә ( řə )
Hokkien: 熱 / 热 (zh-min-nan) ( jo̍ah, lo̍ah ) , 炎熱 / 炎热 ( iām-jo̍ah, iām-lo̍ah ) , 燒熱 / 烧热 (zh-min-nan) ( sio-jo̍ah, sio-lo̍ah )
Mandarin: 熱 / 热 (zh) ( rè ) , 炎熱 / 炎热 (zh) ( yánrè )
Danish: hed (da) , varm (da)
Czech: horký (cs) m
Dutch: warm (nl) , heet (nl)
Esperanto: varmega
Finnish: kuuma (fi)
French: faire chaud
Galician: ( to be hot ) : facer calor
Georgian: ცხელი (ka) ( cxeli )
German: heiß (de) , warm (de)
Greek: κάνει ζέστη ( kánei zésti )
Hindi: गरम (hi) ( garam ) , गर्म (hi) ( garm )
Hote: (thời tiết)nóng
Hungarian: meleg van ( the adjective cannot be translated alone in this sense )
Icelandic: heitur (is)
Indonesian: panas (id)
Italian: caldo (it) m , fare caldo
Japanese: 暑い (ja) ( あつい, atsui )
Jeju: 덥다 ( deopda )
Kaingang: rỹ
Kazakh: ыстық ( ystyq )
Korean: 덥다 (ko) ( deopda ) ( weather )
Latvian: karsts (lv)
Louisiana Creole French: sho
Macedonian: врел ( vrel ) , жежок ( žežok )
Malay: panas (ms)
Malayalam: ചൂട് (ml) ( cūṭŭ )
Maori: pūāhuru
Ngarrindjeri: waldi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: het (no) , varm (no)
Ottoman Turkish: صیجاق ( sıcak ) , ایصی ( ısı, ıssı ) , حرارتلو ( hararetli )
Pashto: تودوخي ( tawdoxi ) , ګرمي ( garmi )
Persian:
Iranian Persian: گَرْم (fa) ( garm )
Polish: gorący (pl) , upalny (pl)
Portuguese: quente (pt) , ( to be hot ) : fazer calor
Quechua: goñi , gonog , k'ajay
Romanian: cald (ro)
Russian: жа́ркий (ru) ( žárkij ) , it is hot : жа́рко (ru) ( žárko )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вру̑ћ
Roman: vrȗć
Slovak: horúci
Slovene: vroč (sl)
Spanish: caluroso (es) , cálido (es) , ( to be hot ) : hacer calor
Swedish: varm (sv) , het (sv)
Tajik: гарм (tg) ( garm )
Thai: ร้อน (th) ( rɔ́ɔn )
Turkish: sıcak (tr)
Ukrainian: спеко́тний ( spekótnyj ) , жарки́й ( žarkýj ) , спеко́тливий ( spekótlyvyj ) , спекотли́вий ( spekotlývyj ) , гаря́чий ( harjáčyj ) , спе́чний ( spéčnyj )
Urdu: گَرْم ( garm )
Uzbek: issiq (uz)
Vietnamese: (thời tiết) nóng , nóng (vi) , nóng (vi) , nóng (vi)
Volapük: hitik (vo)
Yiddish: הייס ( heys )
Yoruba: ooru mú
Zazaki: germ (diq)
feeling the sensation of heat
feverish
Bikol Central: mainit (bcl)
Bulgarian: тре́скав (bg) ( tréskav )
Cebuano: init
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發燒 / 发烧 (zh) ( fāshāo )
Finnish: kuumeessa (fi) , kuumeinen (fi)
French: fiévreux (fr)
Greek: ζεστός (el) ( zestós )
Hebrew: קוֹדֵחַ m ( qodéaẖ )
Hindi: गर्म (hi) ( garm ) , गरम (hi) ( garam )
Hungarian: lázas (hu)
Italian: febbrile (it) , febbricitante
Korean: 열 (이 ) 나는 ( yeol(-i) naneun )
Latin: febriculosus
Macedonian: врел m ( vrel )
Malayalam: ചൂട് (ml) ( cūṭŭ )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: varm (no) , het (no)
Ottoman Turkish: حرارتلو ( hararetli )
Pashto: تود (ps) ( tod ) , ګرم ( garëm )
Portuguese: febril (pt)
Romanian: febril (ro)
Russian: лихора́дочный (ru) ( lixorádočnyj ) , горя́чий (ru) ( gorjáčij )
Spanish: febril (es) m or f , con calentura , ardiendo (es)
Swedish: het (sv) , varm (sv) , febrig (sv)
Telugu: వెచ్చగా ( veccagā )
Thai: ตัว ร้อน
Zazaki: germ (diq)
spicy
Azerbaijani: ədviyyatlı , ədviyyəli
Belarusian: во́стры (be) ( vóstry )
Bikol Central: maharang (bcl)
Bulgarian: лют (bg) ( ljut )
Burmese: စပ် (my) ( cap )
Chamicuro: chawa
Chinese:
Cantonese: 辣 ( laat6 )
Hokkien: 辣 (zh-min-nan) ( lo̍ah ) , 薟 / 莶 (zh-min-nan) ( hiam, hiang )
Mandarin: 辣 (zh) ( là )
Czech: ostrý (cs) m
Danish: stærk (da)
Dutch: pittig (nl) , pikant (nl) , heet (nl)
Estonian: vürtsikas
Finnish: tulinen (fi) , polttava (fi)
French: épicé (fr) , piquant (fr)
Georgian: ცხარე ( cxare )
German: scharf (de) , würzig (de)
Greek: πικάντικος (el) ( pikántikos ) , καυτερός (el) ( kafterós )
Hindi: मसालेदार (hi) ( masāledār ) , तीखा (hi) ( tīkhā ) , गरम (hi) ( garam ) , गर्म (hi) ( garm )
Hungarian: erős (hu) , csípős (hu)
Indonesian: pedas (id)
Italian: piccante (it)
Japanese: 辛い (ja) ( からい, karai )
Javanese: pedhes (jv)
Khmer: ហឹរ (km) ( haə )
Korean: 맵다 (ko) ( maepda )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تیژ (ckb) ( tîj )
Lao: ເຜັດ ( phet )
Latin: acer (la) , mordax
Latvian: ass (lv)
Lithuanian: aštrus
Macedonian: лут ( lut )
Malay: pedas (ms)
Malayalam: എരിവ് (ml) ( erivŭ )
Maori: puhahana
Marathi: गरम ( garam )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: халуун (mn) ( xaluun )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sterk (no)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: تُنْد (fa) ( tond )
Polish: ostry (pl) , pikantny (pl)
Portuguese: picante (pt)
Romanian: iute (ro) , picant (ro)
Russian: о́стрый (ru) ( óstryj ) , пря́ный (ru) ( prjányj )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: љут
Roman: ljut (sh)
Slovak: ostrý
Slovene: pekoč
Spanish: picante (es) , picoso (es)
Swedish: het (sv) , kryddstark (sv)
Telugu: మంటగా ( maṇṭagā )
Thai: เผ็ด (th) ( pèt )
Turkish: acı (tr) , acılı (tr)
Ukrainian: го́стрий (uk) ( hóstryj ) , пря́ний ( prjányj )
Urdu: تیز (ur) ( tez ) , تِیکھا ( tīkhā ) , مَسالے دار ( masāle dār )
Vietnamese: cay (vi)
Volapük: pitik (vo)
Zazaki: tun (diq) , tunın
slang: physically very attractive
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) m ( dobǎ́r ) , добра́ (bg) f ( dobrá ) , го́тин (bg) m ( gótin ) , го́тина f ( gótina )
Cebuano: hat , hot
Chinese:
Mandarin: 帥呆了 / 帅呆了 (zh) ( shuài dāi le )
Danish: hot (da) , lækker (da)
Dutch: begeerlijk (nl) , heet (nl) , lekker (nl) , aantrekkelijk (nl) , porno (nl) ( coarse slang )
Esperanto: amorveka
Finnish: kuuma (fi) , seksikäs (fi) , kuumottava (fi)
French: sexy (fr) , bonne (fr) f ( coarse slang )
German: heiß (de) , scharf (de)
Hungarian: vonzó (hu) , szexi (hu)
Indonesian: seksi (id)
Interlingua: sexy
Irish: gnéasach , téisiúil , slachtmhar
Italian: figo (it) m , figa (it) f , gnocca (it) f
Korean: 섹시하다 (ko) ( seksihada ) ( colloquial, informal ) , 잘생겼다 (ko) ( jalsaenggyeotda )
Lithuanian: ugningas
Norwegian:
Bokmål: het (no) , heit , lekker (no) , sexy (no)
Polish: gorący (pl)
Portuguese: gostoso (pt)
Romanian: bun (ro) , bunoc m , bunoacă f
Spanish: sensual (es) , bueno (es) , candente (es) , sabroso (es)
Swedish: het (sv)
Thai: มีเสน่ห์ ( mii-sà-nèe )
very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed
Translations to be checked
Adverb
hot (comparative hotter , superlative hottest )
Hotly ; at a high temperature.
2013 , Ted Reader, Gastro Grilling: Fired-up Recipes To Grill Great Everyday Meals , Penguin Canada, →ISBN :Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.
Rapidly , quickly .
1994 , Cycle World Magazine , page 74 :Whatever happened, braking into the next-to-last hairpin, a blue-sky turn called Cog Cut, Durelle went in too hot .
2009 , Dan Vining, Among the Living , Penguin, →ISBN :He went in hotter than he could have, the Cforce snugging him into the bucket seat. At the first switchback, there was already a hundred-foot drop-off
2014 , Dennis Foley, Take Back the Night: A Novel of Vietnam , Open Road Media, →ISBN :He rolled over on his belly and raised up enough to see the second chopper coming in hotter , more deliberately than the first. Hollister grabbed Jrae by the ...
2016 , Patrick Carman, Omega Rising , Random House Books for Young Readers, →ISBN , page 26 :They were coming in hotter than Dash liked, nose down toward the watery surface
2019 , David W. Nelson, Ghost Squadron: Wwii Teenage Pilot , →ISBN :“When landing on dirt, gravel, or pavement, you'll be coming in hotter , faster than a runway made of grass, so try and keep that in mind.
2021 , Christine D. Shuck, G581: Mars :"You're coming in hotter than we'd like." "Roger that, Huygens, increasing reverse thrust by 20%."
While shooting , while firing one's weapon(s).
to come in hot ; to go in hot
2015 , Dave Barr, Four Flags, The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier: Part 1: US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77 , Helion and Company, →ISBN , page 121 :We would pop over the riverbank and come down hot (shooting) on a designated target. We started rolling in hot with rockets, then suddenly we started taking fire from the
2016 , Stephen Robertson CD BA ATPL, Go for Shakedown , Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN :"Shakedown is rolling in hot in Nakhoney right now. You're just in time. They've been getting shot at and are in overwatch for India 21 patrolling,"
Verb
hot (third-person singular simple present hots , present participle hotting , simple past and past participle hotted )
To heat ; to make or become hot.
Synonym: heat up
To become lively or exciting .
2018 , “Clean Slate”, in Wentworth :Turf war's hotting up.
Noun
hot (plural hots )
A hot meal , usually in the phrase three hots or derivations such as three hots and a cot .
References
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably onomatopoeic . Compare Polish hetta .
Pronunciation
Interjection
hot
Used to direct horses to the right
Coordinate term: čehý
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English hot .
Adjective
hot (plural and definite singular attributive hotte )
( colloquial ) modern , in , fashionable , trendy ( for a while )
Synonyms: in , brandvarm
( colloquial ) involving or characterized by sex
( music ) Dixieland , hot jazz
spicy (food)
Inflection
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Adjective
hot (comparative hoter , superlative hotst )
( nautical ) right , on the right side
Synonym: rechts
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English hot .
Adjective
hot (comparative hotter , superlative hotst )
( informal ) hot , popular
( informal ) hot , sexy , attractive
Declension
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
hot (plural hots )
( colloquial ) involving or characterized by sex
( Quebec ) interesting
Ingrian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian хоть ( xotʹ ) .
Pronunciation
Particle
hot
for example
Conjunction
hot
even if
even though , although
References
Ruben E. Nirvi (1971 ) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja , Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 64
Arvo Laanest (1997 ) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik , Eesti Keele Instituut, page 37
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English hāt .
Pronunciation
Adjective
hot
hot
Noun
hot (uncountable )
hotness
Descendants
References
“hō̆t, adj. ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2007 .
“hō̆t, n.(1). ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2007 .
Old Polish
Pronunciation
Preposition
hot
alternative form of od
Pennsylvania German
Verb
hot
third-person singular present indicative of hawwe
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic .
Interjection
hot
( Kuyavia ) used to direct a horse to the right
Etymology 2
See ot .
Interjection
hot
( Western Greater Poland ) alternative form of ot
Further reading
Józef Bliziński (1860 ) “hot ”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 623
Oskar Kolberg (1867 ) “hot ”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
Oskar Kolberg (1877 ) “hot ”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 27
Portuguese
Noun
hot m (plural hots )
ellipsis of hot roll
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
English hot
Pronunciation
Adjective
hot
( informal ) erotic
( informal ) popular
References
Prćić, T. (2021). Srpski rečnik novijih anglicizama, Filozofski fakultet, page 261
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
hot m or f (masculine and feminine plural hot or hots )
hot ; sexy
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish hōt n , from Old Norse hót n pl , from Proto-Germanic *hwōtō ( “ threat ” ) , cognate with Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍄𐌰 f ( ƕōta ) . Related to *hwētaną ( “ to attack, stab ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
hot n
threat
Declension
Derived terms
Vietnamese
Etymology
From English hot .
Pronunciation
Adjective
hot
hot (popular; of great current interest)
Nghe bảo trend này đang hot . I heard people say that this trend is hot right now.