hamster

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhæm(p)stə/
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• British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard, Wales: /ˈham(p)stə/
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• US: /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/
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• Scotland: /ˈham(p)stəɾ/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈhɛm(p)stə/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 M S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Albanian: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Southern Altai: эрлен (erlen) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Arabic: قَدَاد (qadād) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Arabic: هَامِسْتَر (hāmistar) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Arabic: هَامِسْتَر (hamestar) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Armenian: համստեր (hamster) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Azerbaijani: dağsiçanı — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Bashkir: алйырҙан (alyırźan) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Bashkir: ирлән (irlən) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Basque: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Belarusian: хамя́к (xamják) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Breton: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Bulgarian: хомя́к (homják) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Bulgarian: ха́мстер (hámster) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Burmese: ဟမ်းစတား (ham:ca.ta:) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Catalan: hàmster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Chechen: оьпа (öpa) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Chinese Mandarin: 倉鼠 /仓鼠 (cāngshǔ) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Cornish: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Czech: křeček — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Dalmatian: viala — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Danish: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Dutch: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Esperanto: hamstro — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Estonian: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Faroese: hamstur — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Faroese: hamstrari — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Finnish: hamsteri — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• French: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• French: rat de blé — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• West-Frisian: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Friulian: cricęt — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Galician: hámster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Georgian: ზაზუნა (zazuna) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• German: Hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Greek: χάμστερ (chámster) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Hebrew: אוֹגֵר (ogér) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Hindi: हैम्स्टर (haimsṭar) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Hungarian: hörcsög — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Icelandic: hamstur — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Ido: hamstro — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Indonesian: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Interlingua: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Irish: hamstar — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Italian: criceto — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Japanese: ハムスター (hamusutā) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Japanese: 絹毛鼠 (kinugenezumi) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Japanese: キヌゲネズミ (kinugenezumi) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Karakalpak: balpaq tıshqan — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Kazakh: атжалман (atjalman) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Korean: 햄스터 (haemseuteo) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Korean: 뵤 (byo) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Kumyk: авлакъ чычкъан (awlaq çıçqan) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Kyrgyz: хомяк (homyak) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Latvian: kāmis — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Lithuanian: žiurkėnas — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Macedonian: хрчак (hrčak) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Malay: tikus belanda — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Maltese: ħamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Eastern Mari: арлан (arlan) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Eastern Mari: комаголя (komagoĺa) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Western Mari: ӓрлӓн (ärlän) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Western Mari: ӓрлӓнгы (ärlängy) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Mongolian: үхэр зусаг (üxer zusag) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Mongolian: шишүүхэй (šišüüxej) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Norwegian Bokmål: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Occitan: amstèr — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Old East Slavic: хомѣкъ (xoměkŭ) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Persian: همستر (hamestar) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Persian: موش بزرگ (muš-e bozorg) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Polish: chomik — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Old Polish: krzeczek — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Old Polish: skrzeczek — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Portuguese: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Romanian: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Romanian: hârciog — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Romansh: furmanter — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Romansh: raffun — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Romansh: raspun — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Russian: хомя́к (xomják) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Scottish Gaelic: hamstair — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Serbo-Croatian: хр́чак — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Serbo-Croatian: hŕčak — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Slovak: škrečok — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Slovene: hrček — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Lower Sorbian: zemcygaŕ — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Upper Sorbian: žurk — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Spanish: hámster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Swedish: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Tagalog: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Tajik: миримӯшон (mirimüšon) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Tatar: әрлән (ärlän) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Thai: แฮมสเตอร์ (hɛms-dtə̂ə) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Turkish: hamster — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Udmurt: арлан (arlan) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Ukrainian: хом'я́к (xomʺják) — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Uzbek: ogʻmaxon — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Vietnamese: chuột ham-tơ — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Vietnamese: ham-tơ — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Volapük: kriset — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Welsh: bochdew — rodent species belonging to the Cricetinae
• Dutch: hamsteren — to stash like a hamster, to hoard
• German: hamstern — to stash like a hamster, to hoard
• Luxembourgish: hamsteren — to stash like a hamster, to hoard
• Norwegian Bokmål: hamstre — to stash like a hamster, to hoard
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hamstra — to stash like a hamster, to hoard
• Russian: хомячить (xomjačitʹ) — to stash like a hamster, to hoard
• Swedish: hamstra — to stash like a hamster, to hoard