mahout

English

Mahout on an elephant.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi महावत (mahāvat), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “high official”), from मह (maha, “great”) + मात्र (mātra, “measure”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /məˈhaʊt/, /məˈhuːt/

Noun

mahout (plural mahouts)

An elephant driver and keeper.

Translations

elephant driver and keeper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 象夫 (xiàngfū)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: elevandijuht
Finnish: norsunajaja
French: cornac (fr) m
German: Elefantentreiber m
Hebrew: פַּיָּל‎ (he) m (payal)
Hindi: महावत (hi) m (mahāvat)
Hungarian: elefánthajcsár
Khmer: ហត្ថិគោបកៈ (hattʰe’koopa’ka’), ទ្រមាក់ (km) (trɔmeak), ហ្មដំរី (maa dɑmrəy)

Kurdish: fîlvan (ku)
Old Gujarati: पुंतार
Polish: kornak (pl) m
Portuguese: cornaca (pt) m
Romanian: cornac (ro)
Russian: махау́т m (maxaút), пого́нщик слоно́в m (pogónščik slonóv)
Spanish: cornaca (es) m
Telugu: మావటి (te) (māvaṭi)
Thai: ควาญ (th) (kwaan), ควาญช้าง (kwaan-cháang)
Vietnamese: quản tượng (vi)

Verb

mahout (third-person singular simple present mahouts, present participle mahouting, simple past and past participle mahouted)

To drive elephants.

Quotations

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Spanish

Noun

mahout m (plural mahouts)

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