hamster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
Inflected forms:
form: hamsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hampster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hamsters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hamstering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hamstered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hamstered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hampster
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
pos: noun
examples: The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
Since the pregnancy interceptive agents or the menses regulators may also influence the development of either trophoblasts or the maternal cells (epithelial and stromal) at the embryo attachment site, another in vitro assay method using using trophoblast cells of hamster and mouse isolated from a preplacental organelle, the ectoplacental cone, has been developed.
gloss: Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
pos: noun
gloss: To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.
[…] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]
[…] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]
Related words: gerbil
guinea pig
mouse
rat
Derived words: antihamster
Chinese hamster
Chinese hamster ovary cell
Djungarian hamster
Dzungarian hamster
golden hamster
hammy
hamster ball
hamsterer
hamstering
hamsterization
hamsterless
hamsterlike
hamster style
hamster wheel
hamstery
idea hamster
mouse-like hamster
rationalisation hamster
rationalization hamster
Russian winter white dwarf hamster
Siberian dwarf hamster
Siberian hamster
winter white Russian hamster
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: hamster
lang: Albanian
word: hamster
lang: Southern Altai
word: эрлен
roman: erlen
lang: Arabic
word: قَدَاد
roman: qadād
lang: Arabic
word: هَامِسْتَر
roman: hāmistar
lang: Arabic
word: هَامِسْتَر
roman: hamestar
lang: Armenian
word: համստեր
roman: hamster
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dağsiçanı
lang: Bashkir
word: алйырҙан
roman: alyırźan
lang: Bashkir
word: ирлән
roman: irlən
lang: Basque
word: hamster
lang: Belarusian
word: хамя́к
roman: xamják
lang: Breton
word: hamster
lang: Bulgarian
word: хомя́к
roman: homják
lang: Bulgarian
word: ха́мстер
roman: hámster
lang: Burmese
word: ဟမ်းစတား
roman: ham:ca.ta:
lang: Catalan
word: hàmster
lang: Chechen
word: оьпа
roman: öpa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 倉鼠 /仓鼠
roman: cāngshǔ
lang: Cornish
word: hamster
lang: Czech
word: křeček
lang: Dalmatian
word: viala
lang: Danish
word: hamster
lang: Dutch
word: hamster
lang: Esperanto
word: hamstro
lang: Estonian
word: hamster
lang: Faroese
word: hamstur
lang: Faroese
word: hamstrari
lang: Finnish
word: hamsteri
lang: French
word: hamster
lang: French
word: rat de blé
lang: West-Frisian
word: hamster
lang: Friulian
word: cricęt
lang: Galician
word: hámster
lang: Georgian
word: ზაზუნა
roman: zazuna
lang: German
word: Hamster
lang: Greek
word: χάμστερ
roman: chámster
lang: Hebrew
word: אוֹגֵר
roman: ogér
lang: Hindi
word: हैम्स्टर
roman: haimsṭar
lang: Hungarian
word: hörcsög
lang: Icelandic
word: hamstur
lang: Ido
word: hamstro
lang: Indonesian
word: hamster
lang: Interlingua
word: hamster
lang: Irish
word: hamstar
lang: Italian
word: criceto
lang: Japanese
word: ハムスター
roman: hamusutā
lang: Japanese
word: 絹毛鼠
roman: kinugenezumi
lang: Japanese
word: キヌゲネズミ
roman: kinugenezumi
lang: Karakalpak
word: balpaq tıshqan
lang: Kazakh
word: атжалман
roman: atjalman
lang: Korean
word: 햄스터
roman: haemseuteo
lang: Korean
word: 뵤
roman: byo
lang: Kumyk
word: авлакъ чычкъан
roman: awlaq çıçqan
lang: Kyrgyz
word: хомяк
roman: homyak
lang: Latvian
word: kāmis
lang: Lithuanian
word: žiurkėnas
lang: Macedonian
word: хрчак
roman: hrčak
lang: Malay
word: tikus belanda
lang: Maltese
word: ħamster
lang: Eastern Mari
word: арлан
roman: arlan
lang: Eastern Mari
word: комаголя
roman: komagoĺa
lang: Western Mari
word: ӓрлӓн
roman: ärlän
lang: Western Mari
word: ӓрлӓнгы
roman: ärlängy
lang: Mongolian
word: үхэр зусаг
roman: üxer zusag
lang: Mongolian
word: шишүүхэй
roman: šišüüxej
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hamster
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: hamster
lang: Occitan
word: amstèr
lang: Old East Slavic
word: хомѣкъ
roman: xoměkŭ
lang: Persian
word: همستر
roman: hamestar
lang: Persian
word: موش بزرگ
roman: muš-e bozorg
lang: Polish
word: chomik
lang: Old Polish
word: krzeczek
lang: Old Polish
word: skrzeczek
lang: Portuguese
word: hamster
lang: Romanian
word: hamster
lang: Romanian
word: hârciog
lang: Romansh
word: furmanter
lang: Romansh
word: raffun
lang: Romansh
word: raspun
lang: Russian
word: хомя́к
roman: xomják
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: hamstair
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: хр́чак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hŕčak
lang: Slovak
word: škrečok
lang: Slovene
word: hrček
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: zemcygaŕ
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: žurk
lang: Spanish
word: hámster
lang: Swedish
word: hamster
lang: Tagalog
word: hamster
lang: Tajik
word: миримӯшон
roman: mirimüšon
lang: Tatar
word: әрлән
roman: ärlän
lang: Thai
word: แฮมสเตอร์
roman: hɛms-dtə̂ə
lang: Turkish
word: hamster
lang: Udmurt
word: арлан
roman: arlan
lang: Ukrainian
word: хом'я́к
roman: xomʺják
lang: Uzbek
word: ogʻmaxon
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuột ham-tơ
lang: Vietnamese
word: ham-tơ
lang: Volapük
word: kriset
lang: Welsh
word: bochdew