colt

Anlam (English)

Noun

1. A young male horse.
2. A young crane (bird).
3. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. (slang) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
5. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
6. (obsolete,slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
7. A young camel or donkey.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
2. (obsolete) To befool.
3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
4. (obsolete,slang) To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.

Kavramlar

tay

atlarda köpekdişi

sıpa

usturpa kırbacı

Synonyms

foal

filly

horse

🐴

pony

yearling

steed

young male horse

cub

mare

mustang

stallion

Equus caballus

young of any animal

calf

wanton

green hand

wild stallion

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/kəʊlt/

Etimoloji (English)

Inherited from Ortaçağ İngilizcesi: colt

Inherited from Eski İngilizce: colt

Cognate with Faroe dili: koltur

Cognate with Norveççe: kult

Cognate with İsveççe: kult

In summary

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.