hobby

• Rhymes: -ɒbi
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒ.bi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑ.bi/

Shortened from hobby-horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin (“small horse, pony”), from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin ("a nag, hobby"; > Modern French aubin, Italian ubino), of Germanic origin: from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hop, hobble.

The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of Robert or Robin (compare dobbin).

hobby (plural hobbies)

1. An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.

   I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby.

2. (horses) An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby

• (activity done for enjoyment in spare time): avocation, pastime; See also Thesaurus:hobby

• hobbyist (noun)

• hobbyhorse (noun)
• hobelar/hobeler

• → Dutch: hobby
• → Russian: хобби (xobbi)

From Old French hobet, from Medieval Latin hopētus, diminutive of harpe.

hobby (plural hobbies)

1. Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 323:

     He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby, which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.

• African hobby, Falco cuvierii
• Australian hobby, Falco longipennis
• Eurasian hobby, Falco subbuteo
• Oriental hobby, Falco severus

hobby n

1. hobby (activity)

hobby c (singular definite hobbyen, plural indefinite hobbyer)

1. hobby (activity)

• fritidsinteresse

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• Hyphenation: hob‧by

hobby m (plural hobby's, diminutive hobby'tje n)

1. hobby (activity)

• liefhebberij

hobby

1. (nonstandard) hobby (activity)

• harrastus

From English hobby

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.bi/

hobby m (plural hobbies or hobbys)

1. hobby (activity)

• passe-temps

• “hobby” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

hobby

1. hobby (activity)

hobby m (invariable)

1. hobby (activity)
2. (in the plural) hobbies

• hobbysto
• hobbystico

From English hobby

hobby m (definite singular hobbyen, indefinite plural hobbyer, definite plural hobbyene)

1. a hobby (leisure activity)

• “hobby” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English hobby

hobby m (definite singular hobbyen, indefinite plural hobbyar, definite plural hobbyane)

1. a hobby (leisure activity)

• “hobby” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English hobby.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔb.bʲi/

hobby n

1. hobby (activity)

• pasja
• konik
• zamiłowanie

• hobbista
• hobbistka
• hobbysta
• hobbystka
• hobbistyczny
• hobbystyczny
• hobbistycznie
• hobbystycznie

• hobby in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English hobby.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.bi/

hobby m (plural hobbies or hobbys)

1. hobby (an activity that one enjoys doing in one’s spare time)

Borrowed from English hobby.

hobby n (plural hobby-uri)

1. hobby

From English hobby.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxobi/, [ˈxoβi]

hobby m (plural hobbys)

1. hobby (activity)

hobby c

1. hobby (activity)