gauntlet

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• gônt’lət
  Play
• /ˈɡɔːnt.lət/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: G AO1 N T L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”).

Modified, under the influence of etymology 1, from gantlope, from Swedish gatlopp (“passageway”), from Old Swedish gata (“lane”) + lopp (“course”), from löpa (“to run”) ]

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: бронирана ръкавица (bronirana rǎkavica) — protective armor for the hands
• Catalan: guantellet — protective armor for the hands
• Chinese Mandarin: 鐵手套 /铁手套 (tiěshǒutào) — protective armor for the hands
• Czech: ochranná rukavice — protective armor for the hands
• Dutch: kaphandschoen — protective armor for the hands
• Dutch: pantserhandschoen — protective armor for the hands
• Finnish: taisteluhansikas — protective armor for the hands
• French: gantelet — protective armor for the hands
• Galician: manípulo — protective armor for the hands
• Georgian: თათმანი (tatmani) — protective armor for the hands
• Georgian: ხელჯაგი (xelǯagi) — protective armor for the hands
• Georgian: ხელთათმანი (xeltatmani) — protective armor for the hands
• German: Kampfhandschuh — protective armor for the hands
• German: Fehdehandschuh — protective armor for the hands
• German: Panzerhandschuh — protective armor for the hands
• Middle High German: Hentze — protective armor for the hands
• Irish: iarndóid — protective armor for the hands
• Irish: lámhainn fhada — protective armor for the hands
• Italian: guanto di armatura — protective armor for the hands
• Japanese: 籠手 (kote) — protective armor for the hands
• Macedonian: рака́вица (rakávica) — protective armor for the hands
• Polish: rękawica — protective armor for the hands
• Portuguese: manopla — protective armor for the hands
• Russian: перча́тка (perčátka) — protective armor for the hands
• Russian: ла́тная рукави́ца (látnaja rukavíca) — protective armor for the hands
• Russian: рукави́ца (rukavíca) — protective armor for the hands
• Spanish: guantelete — protective armor for the hands
• Swedish: stridshandske — protective armor for the hands
• Tagalog: guwantelete — protective armor for the hands
• Ottoman Turkish: قولچاق (kolçak) — protective armor for the hands
• German: Stulpe — glove covering the wrist
• Swedish: kraghandske — glove covering the wrist
• Danish: spidsrod — two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal
• Dutch: spitsroeden — two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal
• Finnish: kujanjuoksu — two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal
• German: Spießrutenlauf — two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal
• Swedish: gatlopp — two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal
• Finnish: kujanjuoksu — simultaneous attack from two or more sides
• Finnish: kujanjuoksu — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal
• French: parcours du combattant — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal
• Georgian: განსაცდელი (gansacdeli) — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal
• Georgian: გამოსაცდელი (gamosacdeli) — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal
• Georgian: ორდალი (ordali) — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal
• German: Spießrutenlauf — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal
• Swedish: gatlopp — any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal