hamster
English
/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/
noun
Definitions
- Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
- Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, , mouse-like hamsters of genus , and the white-tailed rat ().
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hamster (hamster) derived from Middle High German hamster derived from Old High German hamastra derived from Old East Slavic хомѣсторъ derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kāmjas, *staras.
Origin
Proto-Balto-Slavic
*staras
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antihamster English
- hamsterer English
- hamsterlike English
- Hamster German
- hamstern German
- hamster Dutch, Flemish
- hamster French
- хомя́к Russian
- хомячок Russian
- hamster Norwegian Bokmål
- hamster Portuguese
- hamster Swedish
- ハムスター Japanese
- chomik Polish
- hamster Norwegian Nynorsk
- hamster Danish
- hàmster Catalan, Valencian
- hamster Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- แฮมสเตอร์ Thai
- hamastra Old High German
- kāmis Latvian
- hamster Turkish
- hamster Middle High German
- Hamster Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- хомѣсторъ Old East Slavic
- *kāmjas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *staras Proto-Balto-Slavic