hack

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Unclear. Perhaps imitative; compare hock, hawk. Alternatively, perhaps from hack (“chop; do something difficult”) via the idea of doing something (like breathing) or with difficulty.

* As a German and Dutch surname, from the old Germanic name Hacco, shortened from names derived from *hakkju (“enclosure, hedge”). * Also as a German and Dutch surname, occupational surname for a butcher or woodcutter, see Hacker. * As a north/Low German surname, variant of Haack. * Also as a north/Low German surname, variant of Heck. * Also as a north/Low German surname for someone who lived by a marsh, from hach, hack (“boggy water”). * As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Acke with a prosthetic H-, itself of North Germanic origin and a pet form of Old Norse Áskell, see Haskell. * Also as an English surname, from Middle Dutch Hakke, denasalized from Hanke, a West Flemish and Picard form of John. * Also as an English surname, from the Middle English adjective hak (“ruthless, unsparing”). * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish האַק (hak, “axe”).

From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”). Related to hatch. The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking).

Variations of hatch, heck.

Abbreviation of hackney (“an ordinary horse”), probably from place name Hackney.

From hackysack.

201 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: мотика (motika) — tool for chopping
• Bulgarian: кирка (kirka) — tool for chopping
• Finnish: kirves — tool for chopping
• Finnish: isku — hacking blow
• Finnish: iskujälki — gouge or notch made by such a blow
• Bulgarian: опит (opit) — figuratively: try, attempt
• Finnish: yritys — figuratively: try, attempt
• Finnish: hakki — curling: foothold device
• Finnish: hakku — mattock or miner's pick
• Polish: oskard — mattock or miner's pick
• Finnish: hakkerointiyritys — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Finnish: tietomurtoyritys — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Hebrew: פרצה (pirtsáh) — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Italian: pirateria informatica — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Khmer: ការលបលួចចូល (kaa lɔɔp luəc cool) — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Macedonian: хакирање (hakiranje) — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Macedonian: хакување (hakuvanje) — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Malay: godaman — illegal accessing of a computer network
• Finnish: hakkeroitu softa — video game or computer software that has been altered from its original state
• Hebrew: פרצה (pirtsáh) — video game or computer software that has been altered from its original state
• Hebrew: האק (hack) — video game or computer software that has been altered from its original state
• Hebrew: מעקף (ma'aqaf) — interesting technical achievement in programming
• Hebrew: פתרון טכני — interesting technical achievement in programming
• Italian: hackeraggio — interesting technical achievement in programming
• Finnish: purkkaratkaisu — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Finnish: purkka — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• German: Hack — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Hebrew: האק (hack) — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Hebrew: פלסטר (plaster) — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Hebrew: פאטש (patch) — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Italian: espediente — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Italian: accorgimento — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Italian: rimedio — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Italian: toppa — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Italian: rattoppo — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Russian: костыль (kostylʹ) — computing: expedient, temporary solution
• Arabic: حيلة — trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Finnish: niksi — trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Hebrew: האק (hack) — trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Icelandic: hakk — trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Spanish: truco — trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Spanish: maña — trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Finnish: heilautus — baseball: swing of the bat
• Finnish: potku pohkeeseen — football: kick on the shins
• Bulgarian: бакшиш (bakšiš) — taxicab driver
• Dutch: taxichauffeur — taxicab driver
• Dutch: taxichauffeuse — taxicab driver
• Finnish: taksikuski — taxicab driver
• Spanish: taxista — taxicab driver
• Volapük: cöpilod — taxicab driver
• Bulgarian: кранта (kranta) — ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one
• Finnish: koni — ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one
• Finnish: kaakki — ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one
• Galician: faco — ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one
• Māori: hāka — ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one
• Russian: кляча (kljača) — ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one
• Dutch: knol — talented writer-for-hire
• Interlingua: taxi — talented writer-for-hire
• Chinese Mandarin: 文手 (wénshǒu) — untalented writer
• Chinese Mandarin: 寫手 /写手 (xiěshǒu) — untalented writer
• French: écrivaillon — untalented writer
• Italian: imbrattacarte — untalented writer
• Italian: scribacchino — untalented writer
• Spanish: cagatintas — untalented writer
• Spanish: chupatintas — untalented writer
• Spanish: juntaletras — untalented writer
• Spanish: plumilla — untalented writer
• Spanish: plumífero — untalented writer
• Spanish: plumífera — untalented writer
• Bulgarian: суха кашлица (suha kašlica) — dry cough
• Dutch: kuch — dry cough
• Finnish: köhä — dry cough
• Italian: tosse secca — dry cough
• Portuguese: tosse seca — dry cough
• Russian: сухо́й ка́шель (suxój kášelʹ) — dry cough
• Finnish: köhäys — short, broken cough
• Finnish: köhinä — short, broken cough
• Finnish: footbag — small ball for hackeysack
• Spanish: jaca — small ball for hackeysack
• Belarusian: руба́ць (rubácʹ) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Belarusian: сячы́ (sjačý) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Bulgarian: ре́жа (réža) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Bulgarian: наря́звам (narjázvam) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Bulgarian: сека́ (seká) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Choctaw: chanli — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Dutch: hakken — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Esperanto: haki — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Finnish: hakata — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• French: charcuter — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• French: couper — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Ido: hakar — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Interlingua: hachar — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Italian: aprirsi un varco — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Macedonian: цепи (cepi) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Macedonian: касапи (kasapi) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Macedonian: парчосува (parčosuva) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Norwegian: hakke — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Occitan: chaplar — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Occitan: copassejar — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Church Slavic: сѣщи (sěšti) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Church Slavic: рѫбити (rǫbiti) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Polish: rąbać — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Polish: porąbać — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Polish: zrąbać — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Polish: wyrąbać — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Russian: руби́ть (rubítʹ) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Russian: сечь (sečʹ) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Spanish: cortar — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Ukrainian: руби́ти (rubýty) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Ukrainian: сі́кти (síkty) — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Vietnamese: chém — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Vietnamese: chặt mạnh — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Vietnamese: đốn — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Vietnamese: đẽo — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Volapük: cöpilön — to chop or cut down in a rough manner
• Finnish: pärjätä — to withstand or put up with a difficult situation
• Italian: farcela — to withstand or put up with a difficult situation
• Swedish: klara sig — to withstand or put up with a difficult situation
• Swedish: stå ut — to withstand or put up with a difficult situation
• Vietnamese: chịu khó — to withstand or put up with a difficult situation
• Arabic: اِخْتَرَقَ (iḵtaraqa) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Arabic: هكر (hakkar) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Arabic: اخترق (ixtiraq) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Arabic: هَكَّر (hakkar) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Bulgarian: ха́квам (hákvam) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑 — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑入 — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Chinese Mandarin: 破解 (pòjiě) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Finnish: hakkeroida — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Georgian: გატეხვა (gaṭexva) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Georgian: შეჭრა (šeč̣ra) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• German: hacken — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Greek: χακάρω (chakáro) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Indonesian: meretas — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Italian: accedere illegalmente — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Italian: introdursi illegamente — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Italian: penetrare abusivamente — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Macedonian: хакува (hakuva) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Macedonian: хаки́ра (hakíra) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Malay: menggodam — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Māori: mūrere — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Persian: هک کردن (hak kardan) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Persian: نفوذ کردن (nofuz kardan) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Polish: hakować — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Polish: zhakować — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Polish: włamywać się — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Polish: włamać się — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Portuguese: hackear — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Portuguese: invadir — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Romanian: sparge — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Russian: взлома́ть (vzlomátʹ) — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Spanish: hackear — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Spanish: jaquear — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Swedish: hacka — to gain illegal access to a computer network
• Arabic: اِخْتَرَقَ (iḵtaraqa) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Arabic: هكر (hakkar) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Arabic: اخترق (ixtiraq) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Bulgarian: ха́квам (hákvam) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Danish: hacke — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Finnish: murtautua — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• French: pirater — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Georgian: გატეხვა (gaṭexva) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Georgian: შეჭრა (šeč̣ra) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• German: eindringen — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Hungarian: meghackel — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Hungarian: meghekkel — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Indonesian: meretas — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Polish: hakować — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Polish: zhakować — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Polish: włamywać się — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Polish: włamać się — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Portuguese: invadir — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Portuguese: hackear — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Russian: взла́мывать (vzlámyvatʹ) — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Spanish: hackear — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Spanish: jaquear — to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account
• Italian: sbrogliare — to accomplish a difficult programming task
• Finnish: pätsätä — to make a quick code change to patch a computer program
• Italian: rattoppare — to make a quick code change to patch a computer program
• Italian: riprogrammare — to make a quick code change to patch a computer program
• Italian: riconfigurare — to make a quick code change to patch a computer program
• Italian: rimodulare — to make a quick code change to patch a computer program
• Italian: ricodificare — to make a quick code change to patch a computer program
• Finnish: parantaa — to apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method
• Finnish: työskennellä jonkin parissa — to work with on an intimately technical level
• Bulgarian: подси́чам (podsíčam) — ice hockey: to strike an opponent with one's hockey stick
• Finnish: huitoa jaloille — ice hockey: to strike an opponent with one's hockey stick
• Finnish: sohia — ice hockey: to make a flailing attempt to hit the puck
• Finnish: heilauttaa mailaa — baseball: to swing at a pitched ball
• Finnish: potkia pohkeille — football: to kick on the shins
• Vietnamese: đá vào ống chân — football: to kick on the shins
• Finnish: lennättää — to strike in a frantic movement
• Bulgarian: кашлям (kašljam) — to cough noisily
• Dutch: kuchen — to cough noisily
• Finnish: köhiä — to cough noisily
• French: tousser — to cough noisily
• Ingrian: köhhiä — to cough noisily
• Italian: tossire — to cough noisily
• Macedonian: бувта (buvta) — to cough noisily
• Vietnamese: ho khan — to cough noisily
• Finnish: pelata footbagia — to play hackeysack