colt

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊlt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [kɔʊlt]
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɒlt/ doll–dole merger
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• British, Southern, Standard: /kəwlt/
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• British, Southern, Standard: [kɔwlt]
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• British, Southern, Standard: /kɔlt/ doll–dole merger
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• US: /koʊlt/
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• Scotland: /kolt/
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• Wales: /koult/ without the toe–tow merger
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• rhymes with -əʊlt
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• homophone: cult (gulf-golf merger, doll–dole merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: K OW1 L T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From colt, as a nickname or occupational name for someone who looked after horses and asses. The given name may also be short for Colton. The revolver is named after American inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862).

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, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mëz — young male horse
• Armenian: մտրուկ (mtruk) — young male horse
• Armenian: քուռակ (kʻuṙak) — young male horse
• Aromanian: mãndzu — young male horse
• Asturian: potru — young male horse
• Bulgarian: жребче́ (žrebčé) — young male horse
• Catalan: poltre — young male horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 駒 /驹 (jū) — young male horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 駒子 /驹子 (jūzi) — young male horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 小雄馬 /小雄马 (xiǎo xióng mǎ) — young male horse
• Czech: hříbě — young male horse
• Dutch: hengstveulen — young male horse
• Esperanto: ĉevalido — young male horse
• Faroese: koltur — young male horse
• Finnish: varsa — young male horse
• Finnish: orivarsa — young male horse
• French: poulain — young male horse
• North Frisian: Plāg — young male horse
• Galician: poldro — young male horse
• German: Hengstfohlen — young male horse
• German: männliches Fohlen — young male horse
• German: männliches Füllen — young male horse
• German: Hengstfüllen — young male horse
• Ancient Greek: πῶλος (pôlos) — young male horse
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐀡𐀫 (po-ro) — young male horse
• Hungarian: méncsikó — young male horse
• Ido: kavalyunulo — young male horse
• Irish: bromach — young male horse
• Italian: puledro — young male horse
• Japanese: 雄の子馬 (osu no kouma) — young male horse
• Latgalian: kumeļs — young male horse
• Latin: equuleus — young male horse
• Latvian: kumeļš — young male horse
• Lithuanian: kumeliukas — young male horse
• Macedonian: ждребе (ždrebe) — young male horse
• Malay: kuda jantan muda — young male horse
• Maltese: mohor — young male horse
• Maltese: felu — young male horse
• Megleno-Romanian: mǫndz — young male horse
• Mongolian: даага (daaga) — young male horse
• Navajo: łéʼéyázhí — young male horse
• Occitan: polin — young male horse
• Plautdietsch: Falm — young male horse
• Polish: źrebak — young male horse
• Polish: ogierek — young male horse
• Portuguese: potro — young male horse
• Portuguese: poldro — young male horse
• Punjabi: ਵਛੇਰਾ (vacherā) — young male horse
• Romanian: mânz — young male horse
• Russian: жеребёнок (žerebjónok) — young male horse
• Russian: жере́бчик (žerébčik) — young male horse
• Scottish Gaelic: capall — young male horse
• Scottish Gaelic: bromach — young male horse
• Scottish Gaelic: loth — young male horse
• Scottish Gaelic: lothag — young male horse
• Scottish Gaelic: searrach — young male horse
• Scottish Gaelic: biorach(-eich) — young male horse
• Serbo-Croatian: ждребе — young male horse
• Serbo-Croatian: ждријебе — young male horse
• Serbo-Croatian: ždrebe — young male horse
• Serbo-Croatian: ždrijebe — young male horse
• Sikkimese: རྟི་གི (rti gi) — young male horse
• Slovene: žrebe — young male horse
• Lower Sorbian: žrěbc — young male horse
• Spanish: potranco — young male horse
• Spanish: potro — young male horse
• Swedish: unghäst — young male horse
• Swedish: fåle — young male horse
• Taos: kòwʼȕʼúna — young male horse
• Turkish: tay — young male horse
• Ukrainian: лоша́ (lošá) — young male horse
• Unami: nehënaonkètët — young male horse
• Volapük: hijevodül — young male horse
• Welsh: ebol — young male horse
• Wolof: mol mi — young male horse
• Zazaki: estor (diq) — young male horse
• Bulgarian: новак (novak) — novice
• French: jeunot — novice
• Portuguese: novato — novice
• Portuguese: noviço — novice
• Romanian: novice — novice
• Romanian: începător — novice
• Russian: линёк (linjók) — rope