# hoof
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English hoof, hof, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto).

### Pronunciation

* (US) enPR: ho͝of, ho͞of, IPA: /hʊf/, /huːf/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːf, -ʊf

### Noun

hoof (plural hooves or hoofs)
* The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
** 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
* (slang, derogatory) The human foot.
    Get your hooves off me!
** 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 110:He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle.
* (geometry, dated) An ungula.
* The heel of a loaf of bread.

#### Derived terms

* ale-hoof
* beat the hoof
* beef on the hoof
* beef to the hoof
* cloven hoof
* hoof-and-mouth disease
* hoof fungus
* hoof-mark
* hoof pick
* hoofprint
* horse's hoof
* hot-hoof
* iron hoof
* on the hoof
* pad the hoof
* show the cloven hoof
* steak on the hoof

#### Related terms

* hoofed

#### Translations

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, then tırnağı: 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 ? (kopete) :

### Verb

hoof (third-person singular simple present hoofs, present participle hoofing, simple past and past participle hoofed)
* To trample with hooves.
* (colloquial) To walk.
* (informal) To dance, especially as a professional.
* (colloquial, football (soccer), transitive) To kick, especially to kick a football a long way downfield with little accuracy.
    Synonym: boot

#### Alternative forms

* hoove

#### Derived terms

* hoofer
* hoof it
* hoof out

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch hoofd, Middle Dutch hovet, from Old Dutch hōvit, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą. Doublet of sjef.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦʊə̯f/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hoof (plural hoofde)
* head

#### Derived terms

* doodshoof
* hoofpyn
* hoofstad
* hoofstuk

## Limburgish
### Alternative forms

* Hoff (Eupen)
* haof
* hoaf (Southeast Limburgish)
* Hooef (Krefeld)

### Etymology

From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch hof, from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.

### Noun

hoof m
* garden (an outdoor area containing one or more types of plants)