FromMiddle English hoof ,hof , fromOld English hōf , fromProto-Germanic *hōfaz (compareWest Frisian hoef ,Dutch hoef ,German Huf ,Danish hov ,Norwegian hov ,Swedish hov ), fromProto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compareSanskrit शफ ( śaphá ,“ hoof, claw ” ) ,Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 ( safa ,“ hoof ” ) , possiblyCzech ,Polish kopyto ).
hooves of ahorse . hoof (plural hooves or hoofs )
Thetip of atoe of anungulate such as ahorse ,ox ordeer , strengthened by a thickkeratin covering.1712 (date written),[Joseph] Addison ,Cato, a Tragedy. [ … ] , London: [ … ] J[ acob] Tonson , [ … ] , published1713 ,→OCLC , Act I, scene i,page 2 :[ …] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d withRome ’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’sHoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
( slang , derogatory ) Thehuman foot .Get yourhooves off me!
1929 , Robert Dean Frisbee,The Book of Puka-Puka , Eland, published2019 , page110 :He is a huge man, six feet four on barehoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.
( geometry , dated ) Anungula .Theheel of a loaf of bread. tip of a toe of ungulates
Albanian:thundër (sq) f Arabic:حافِر m ( ḥāfir ) ,ظِلْف m ( ẓilf ) ,خُفّ m ( ḵuff ) Egyptian Arabic:حافر m ( ḥāfir ) Armenian:սմբակ (hy) ( smbak ) ,կճղակ (hy) ( kčġak ) ,պճեղ (hy) ( pčeġ ) Asturian:pezuña f Avestan:𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 ( safa ) Azerbaijani:dırnaq (az) Baluchi:سرنب ( surunb ) ,سرمب ( surumb ) ,سرم ( surum ) Bashkir:тояҡ ( toyaq ) Basque:apo ,apatx Bats:ჭალკო̆ ( č̣alḳŏ ) Belarusian:капы́т m ( kapýt ) Bengali:খুর (bn) ( khur ) Bulgarian:копи́то (bg) n ( kopíto ) Burmese:ခွာ (my) ( hkwa ) Buryat:туруун ( turuun ) Catalan:peülla (ca) f Central Sierra Miwok:háṭ·e·- Chechen:берг ( berg ) Chinese:Mandarin:蹄 (zh) ( tí ) ,蹢 (zh) ( dí ) Chukchi:яйпыԓгын ( jajpyḷgyn ) ,ейпыт pl ( ejpyt ) Chuvash:чӗрне ( čĕrne ) Crimean Tatar:tuyaq Czech:kopyto (cs) n Danish:hov c Dongxiang:ghimusun Dutch:hoef (nl) m Egyptian: (wḥmt f ) Esperanto:hufo Estonian:kabi Faroese:hógvur m Finnish:kavio (fi) ,sorkka (fi) ( hoof of artiodactyls ) French:sabot (fr) m Galician:pesuño m ,presuño m ,uña (gl) f ,pezuño m ,vaso (gl) m Georgian:ჩლიქი ( čliki ) German:Huf (de) m Greek:οπλή (el) f ( oplí ) Ancient:ὁπλή f ( hoplḗ ) Haitian Creole:zago Hawaiian:maiʻao Hebrew:פַּרְסָה (he) f ( parsá ) Hindi:खुर (hi) m ( khur ) Hungarian:pata (hu) Icelandic:hófur (is) m ,klauf f Indonesian:kuku (id) Irish:crúb f Italian:zoccolo (it) m Japanese:蹄 (ja) ( ひづめ, hizume ) Kalmyk:турун ( turun ) Kazakh:тұяқ ( tūäq ) Khmer:ក្រចក (km) ( krɑcɑɑk ) ( also :nail", "claw" ) Korean:굽 (ko) ( gup ) ,발굽 ( balgup ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:sim (ku) m Kyrgyz:туяк (ky) ( tuyak ) Lao:ກີບ (lo) ( kīp ) Latin:ungula f Latvian:nags (lv) m Lithuanian:kanopa f Macedonian:копито n ( kopito ) Malay:telapuk Malayalam:കുളമ്പ് (ml) ( kuḷampŭ ) Manchu:ᡶᠠᡨᡥᠠ ( fatha ) Maori:pāua ,kuku Mingrelian:ჩირქე ( čirke ) Mongolian:Cyrillic:туурай (mn) ( tuuraj ) Norman:chabot m ,chavette f ,cône du pied ( Sark ) Norwegian:Bokmål:hov m Nynorsk:hov m or f Occitan:bata (oc) f Old English:hōf m Old Norse:hófr m Old Turkic:𐱃𐰆𐰖𐰆𐰍 ( t¹uy¹uǧ ) Ossetian:сӕфтӕг ( sæftæg ) Ottoman Turkish:طویناق ( toynaq ) ,طرناق ( tırnaq ) Pali:sapha m Pannonian Rusyn:копито n ( kopito ) Pashto:سوه (ps) f ( swa ) ,څوه f ( cwa ) Persian:Iranian Persian:سُم ( som ) ,سَپَل ( sapal ) Polish:kopyto (pl) n Portuguese:casco (pt) m ,pata (pt) f ,pezunho (pt) m Quechua:sillu Romanian:copită (ro) f Russian:копы́то (ru) n ( kopýto ) Sanskrit:शफ (sa) m ( śapha ) Scottish Gaelic:ladhar m ,ìne f Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:ко̀пито n Roman:kòpito (sh) n Shor:туйғақ Sinhalese:කුර ? ( kura ) Slovak:kopyto n Slovene:kopíto (sl) n Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:kopyto n Upper Sorbian:kopyto n Spanish:pezuña (es) f ,casco (es) m Swahili:ukwato Swedish:hov (sv) c ,klöv (sv) c Tajik:сум ( sum ) Tamil:குளம்பு (ta) ( kuḷampu ) Taos:kòwmą̏celéna Tatar:тояк (tt) ( toyak ) Telugu:గిట్ట (te) ( giṭṭa ) Thai:กีบ (th) ( gìip ) Tibetan:རྨིག་པ ( rmig pa ) Turkish:tırnak (tr) (lit. ,nail ; to express the hoof of a particular animal, give the animal's name first, thentırnağı : e.g.,cow hoof =inek tırnağı ),toynak (tr) Turkmen:toýnak Tuvan:дуюг ( duyug ) Ukrainian:копи́то n ( kopýto ) ,копито́ n ( kopytó ) Urdu:کُھر m ( khur ) Uyghur:تۇياق (ug) ( tuyaq ) Uzbek:tuyoq (uz) Vietnamese:guốc (vi) ,móng (vi) Volapük:saf (vo) Welsh:carn (cy) m Yakut:туйах ( tuyaq ) Yiddish:קאָפּעטע f ( kopete )
hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs ,present participle hoofing ,simple past and past participle hoofed )
Totrample with hooves. ( colloquial ) Towalk .( informal ) Todance , especially as aprofessional .( colloquial , football (soccer), transitive ) Tokick , especially to kick a football a long waydownfield with little accuracy.Synonym: boot FromDutch hoofd ,Middle Dutch hovet , fromOld Dutch hōvit , fromProto-Germanic *haubudą .Doublet ofsjef .
hoof (plural hoofde )
head FromMiddle Dutch hof , fromOld Dutch hof , fromProto-West Germanic *hof , fromProto-Germanic *hufą .
hoof m
garden ( an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants )