colt

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
3. (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) 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.

Từ đồng nghĩa

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

Bản dịch

poulain

potro

puledro

Fohlen

veulen

potro

poltre

potranco

πουλάρι

tay

equuleus

hengstveulen

Hengstfohlen

Phát âm là (IPA)

/kəʊlt/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh Trung cổ: colt

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh cổ: colt

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Faroe: koltur

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Na Uy: kult

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Thụy Điển: 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.