cocktail

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.teɪl/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑk.teɪl/
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• Australian: /ˈkɔk.tæɪl/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 K T EY2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a stimulant (gingering), hence a stimulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: mengeldrankie — alcoholic beverage
• Afrikaans: skemerkelkie — alcoholic beverage
• Albanian: koktej — alcoholic beverage
• Arabic: كُوكْتَيْل (kuktayl) — alcoholic beverage
• Arabic: كُوكْتِيل (kokteyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Armenian: կոկտեյլ (kokteyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Azerbaijani: kokteyl — alcoholic beverage
• Belarusian: кактэ́йль (kaktéjlʹ) — alcoholic beverage
• Bulgarian: кокте́йл (koktéjl) — alcoholic beverage
• Burmese: ကော့တေး (kau.te:) — alcoholic beverage
• Catalan: còctel — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese Cantonese: 雞尾酒 /鸡尾酒 (gai1 mei5 zau2) — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese Cantonese: 咯嗲 (gok1 de1) — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese: 雞尾酒 /鸡尾酒 (ke-bóe-chiú, koe-bé-chiú) — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese Mandarin: 雞尾酒 /鸡尾酒 (jīwěijiǔ) — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese Mandarin: 調酒 /调酒 (tiáojiǔ) — alcoholic beverage
• Czech: koktejl — alcoholic beverage
• Danish: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Dutch: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Erzya: атякшпуло (aťakšpulo) — alcoholic beverage
• Esperanto: koktelo — alcoholic beverage
• Estonian: kokteil — alcoholic beverage
• Finnish: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Finnish: drinkki — alcoholic beverage
• Finnish: kimara — alcoholic beverage
• French: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Galician: cóctel — alcoholic beverage
• Georgian: კოქტეილი (ḳokṭeili) — alcoholic beverage
• German: Cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Greek: κοκτέιλ (koktéil) — alcoholic beverage
• Hebrew: קוֹקְטֵיל \ קוקטייל (koktéyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Hindi: कॉकटेल (kŏkṭel) — alcoholic beverage
• Hungarian: koktél — alcoholic beverage
• Icelandic: hanastél — alcoholic beverage
• Icelandic: kokkteill — alcoholic beverage
• Ido: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Ido: koktelo — alcoholic beverage
• Indonesian: koktail — alcoholic beverage
• Italian: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Italian: polibibita — alcoholic beverage
• Italian: coccotello — alcoholic beverage
• Japanese: カクテル (kakuteru) — alcoholic beverage
• Kazakh: коктейль (kokteil) — alcoholic beverage
• Khmer: ស្រាក្រឡុក (sraa krɑɑlok) — alcoholic beverage
• Korean: 칵테일 (kakteil) — alcoholic beverage
• Korean: 혼합주 (honhapju) — alcoholic beverage
• Kyrgyz: коктейль (kokteyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Lao: ຄັອກເທນ (khǫk thēn) — alcoholic beverage
• Latvian: kokteilis — alcoholic beverage
• Lithuanian: kokteilis — alcoholic beverage
• Macedonian: коктел (koktel) — alcoholic beverage
• Malay: koktel — alcoholic beverage
• Marathi: कॉक्टेल (kŏkṭel) — alcoholic beverage
• Mongolian: коктэйл (koktejl) — alcoholic beverage
• Norwegian Bokmål: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Persian: کوکتل (koktel) — alcoholic beverage
• Polish: koktajl — alcoholic beverage
• Portuguese: coquetel — alcoholic beverage
• Romanian: cocteil — alcoholic beverage
• Romanian: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Russian: кокте́йль (koktɛ́jlʹ) — alcoholic beverage
• Russian: кокте́ль (koktɛ́lʹ) — alcoholic beverage
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀ктел — alcoholic beverage
• Serbo-Croatian: kòktel — alcoholic beverage
• Slovak: koktail — alcoholic beverage
• Slovak: kokteil — alcoholic beverage
• Slovene: koktejl — alcoholic beverage
• Slovene: koktajl — alcoholic beverage
• Slovene: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Spanish: cóctel — alcoholic beverage
• Spanish: coctel — alcoholic beverage
• Spanish: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Swedish: cocktail — alcoholic beverage
• Tagalog: koktel — alcoholic beverage
• Tagalog: kaktel — alcoholic beverage
• Tajik: коктейль (kokteyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Tajik: коктейл (kokteyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Thai: ค็อกเทล (kɔ́k-teel) — alcoholic beverage
• Turkish: kokteyl — alcoholic beverage
• Turkmen: kokteýl — alcoholic beverage
• Ukrainian: кокте́йль (koktéjlʹ) — alcoholic beverage
• Urdu: کاک ٹیل (kāk-ṭel) — alcoholic beverage
• Uzbek: kokteyl — alcoholic beverage
• Vietnamese: cốc-tai — alcoholic beverage
• Yiddish: קאָקטייל (kokteyl) — alcoholic beverage
• Catalan: còctel — mixture of other substances
• Danish: cocktail — mixture of other substances
• Finnish: sekoitus — mixture of other substances
• Finnish: seos — mixture of other substances
• Norwegian Bokmål: cocktail — mixture of other substances
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cocktail — mixture of other substances
• Turkish: kokteyl — mixture of other substances