hate

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: hāt
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /heɪt/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [hɛɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [he̞ɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [heː(ʔ)t̚]
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• Canada: [heːt]
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• Canada: [heː(ʔ)t̚]
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• Australian: /hæɪ̯t/
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• British, Southern, Standard: [hɛjt]
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• Received-Pronunciation: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• homophone: Haight
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English haate, hat, hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English het, hete (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-West Germanic *hati, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh2d- (“angriness, hatred”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch haat (“hatred”), German Hass, Haß (“hate, hatred”), Luxembourgish Haass (“hate, hatred”), Vilamovian hās (“hate, hatred”), Yiddish האַס (has, “hatred”), Danish had (“hate, hatred”), Faroese and Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hat (“hate, hatred”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃 (hatis, “hate, wrath”); also Breton and Cornish kas (“hatred”), Old Irish miscuis (“hatred”), Welsh cas (“hatred”), Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌃𐌄𐌝𐌔 (kadeís, “enmity”), Ancient Greek κῆδος (kêdos, “care for others; troubles; mourning”), Sanskrit रि॒शाद॑स् (riśā́das, “benign or devouring or destroying enemies”). The verb is from Middle English haate, hate, haten, hatenn, hatien, hatiȝen, hatye, hatyn, heatien, from Old English hatian (“to hate, treat as an enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *hatēn, from Proto-Germanic *hatāną (“to hate”), from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from the same root as above. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian hoatje (“to hate”), West Frisian haatsje (“to hate”), Cimbrian haazan (“to hate”), Dutch haten (“to hate”), German hassen (“to hate”), Luxembourgish haassen (“to hate”), Yiddish האַסן (hasn, “to hate”), Danish hade (“to hate”), Icelandic, Faroese, and Swedish hata (“to hate”), Norwegian Bokmål hate (“to hate”), Norwegian Nynorsk hata, hate (“to hate”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽 (hatan, “to hate”).

181 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 惡評 /恶评 (èpíng) — negative interaction in Internet
• Japanese: ヘイト (heito) — negative interaction in Internet
• Polish: hejt — negative interaction in Internet
• Portuguese: hate — negative interaction in Internet
• Romanian: hate — negative interaction in Internet
• Russian: хейт (xejt) — negative interaction in Internet
• Ukrainian: нелюбов (neljubov) — negative interaction in Internet
• Afrikaans: haat — to dislike intensely
• Albanian: urrej — to dislike intensely
• Amharic: መጥላት (mäṭlat) — to dislike intensely
• Arabic: كَرِهَ (kariha) — to dislike intensely
• Arabic: أَبْغَضَ (ʔabḡaḍa) — to dislike intensely
• Arabic: كره (kirih) — to dislike intensely
• Arabic: بغض (baḡaḍ) — to dislike intensely
• Armenian: ատել (atel) — to dislike intensely
• Aromanian: urãscu — to dislike intensely
• Asturian: odiar — to dislike intensely
• Azerbaijani: nifrət etmək — to dislike intensely
• Azerbaijani: zəhləsi getmək — to dislike intensely
• Basque: gorrotatu — to dislike intensely
• Belarusian: ненаві́дзець (njenavídzjecʹ) — to dislike intensely
• Bengali: ঘৃণা করা (ghrina kora) — to dislike intensely
• Bulgarian: мра́зя (mrázja) — to dislike intensely
• Bulgarian: ненави́ждам (nenavíždam) — to dislike intensely
• Burmese: စက်ဆုပ် (cakhcup) — to dislike intensely
• Burmese: မုန်း (mun:) — to dislike intensely
• Catalan: odiar — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Cantonese: 好憎 (hou2 zang1) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Cantonese: 憎 (zang1) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 恨 (hèn) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 討厭 /讨厌 (tǎoyàn) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 仇恨 (chóuhèn) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 憎 (zēng) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 憎恨 (zēnghèn) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 嫌 (xián) — to dislike intensely
• Chinese Mandarin: 恨惡 /恨恶 (hènwù) — to dislike intensely
• Maore Comorian: uyenga — to dislike intensely
• Maore Comorian: utukiwa na — to dislike intensely
• Cornish: bos kas gans — to dislike intensely
• Czech: nenávidět — to dislike intensely
• Czech: nesnášet — to dislike intensely
• Danish: hade — to dislike intensely
• Dutch: haten — to dislike intensely
• Egyptian: ms-s-D-A2 (msḏj) — to dislike intensely
• Esperanto: malami — to dislike intensely
• Estonian: vihkama — to dislike intensely
• Faroese: hata — to dislike intensely
• Finnish: vihata — to dislike intensely
• Finnish: inhota — to dislike intensely
• French: haïr — to dislike intensely
• French: détester — to dislike intensely
• Friulian: odeâ — to dislike intensely
• Georgian: სიძულვილი (siʒulvili) — to dislike intensely
• Georgian: ეჯავრება (eǯavreba) — to dislike intensely
• Georgian: ზიზღი (zizɣi) — to dislike intensely
• German: hassen — to dislike intensely
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hatjan) — to dislike intensely
• Greek: μισώ (misó) — to dislike intensely
• Greek: απεχθάνομαι (apechthánomai) — to dislike intensely
• Ancient Greek: μῑσέω (mīséō) — to dislike intensely
• Haitian Creole: rayi — to dislike intensely
• Hebrew: שָׂנֵא (sané) — to dislike intensely
• Hindi: घृणा करना (ghŕṇā karnā) — to dislike intensely
• Hungarian: gyűlöl — to dislike intensely
• Hungarian: utál — to dislike intensely
• Icelandic: hata — to dislike intensely
• Ido: odiar — to dislike intensely
• Indonesian: benci — to dislike intensely
• Indonesian: membenci — to dislike intensely
• Irish: is fuath le — to dislike intensely
• Italian: odiare — to dislike intensely
• Japanese: 憎む (nikumu) — to dislike intensely
• Japanese: 嫌う (kirau) — to dislike intensely
• Japanese: 厭う (itou) — to dislike intensely
• Japanese: 嫌悪する (ken'o suru) — to dislike intensely
• Kazakh: жек көру (jek köru) — to dislike intensely
• Khmer: ស្អប់ (s’ɑp) — to dislike intensely
• Khmer: ជិន (cɨn) — to dislike intensely
• Korean: 싫어하다 (sireohada) — to dislike intensely
• Korean: 미워하다 (miwohada) — to dislike intensely
• Northern Kurdish: hîlet bûn — to dislike intensely
• Northern Kurdish: nefret kirin — to dislike intensely
• Kyrgyz: жек көрүү (jek körüü) — to dislike intensely
• Ladino: aborreser — to dislike intensely
• Lao: ກຽດ (kīat) — to dislike intensely
• Latgalian: neist — to dislike intensely
• Latin: ōdī — to dislike intensely
• Latin: odiō — to dislike intensely
• Latvian: ienīst — to dislike intensely
• Latvian: neciest — to dislike intensely
• Lithuanian: neapkęsti — to dislike intensely
• Lombard: odià — to dislike intensely
• Low German: haten — to dislike intensely
• Luxembourgish: haassen — to dislike intensely
• Macedonian: мрази (mrazi) — to dislike intensely
• Malay: benci — to dislike intensely
• Malayalam: വെറുക്കുക (veṟukkuka) — to dislike intensely
• Maltese: mibegħda — to dislike intensely
• Maltese: bagħad — to dislike intensely
• Māori: mauāhara — to dislike intensely
• Middle English: haten — to dislike intensely
• Mongolian: хорсох (xorsox) — to dislike intensely
• Mongolian: үзэн ядах (üzen jadax) — to dislike intensely
• Mongolian: занах (zanax) — to dislike intensely
• Navajo: yijoołá — to dislike intensely
• Norman: dêtester — to dislike intensely
• Norwegian: hate — to dislike intensely
• Occitan: asirar — to dislike intensely
• Occitan: aissosar — to dislike intensely
• Church Slavic: ненавидѣти (nenaviděti) — to dislike intensely
• Old English: hatian — to dislike intensely
• Old Norse: hata — to dislike intensely
• Oromo: jibbuu — to dislike intensely
• Pashto: بدوړل (badwṛǝ́l) — to dislike intensely
• Persian: نفرت داشتن (nefrat dâštan) — to dislike intensely
• Persian: بیزار بودن (bizâr budan) — to dislike intensely
• Pitjantjatjara: kuraringanyi — to dislike intensely
• Polish: nienawidzić — to dislike intensely
• Portuguese: odiar — to dislike intensely
• Quechua: chiqnikuy — to dislike intensely
• Quechua: chiqniy — to dislike intensely
• Quechua: cignii — to dislike intensely
• Quechua: cikii — to dislike intensely
• Romanian: urî — to dislike intensely
• Romansh: odiar — to dislike intensely
• Romansh: detestar — to dislike intensely
• Romansh: hassiar — to dislike intensely
• Romansh: spretschar — to dislike intensely
• Russian: ненави́деть (nenavídetʹ) — to dislike intensely
• Sanskrit: द्वेष्टि (dvéṣṭi) — to dislike intensely
• Sardinian: odiai — to dislike intensely
• Sardinian: tirriai — to dislike intensely
• Serbo-Croatian: nenávideti — to dislike intensely
• Serbo-Croatian: нена́видети — to dislike intensely
• Serbo-Croatian: мр́зити — to dislike intensely
• Serbo-Croatian: мр́зети — to dislike intensely
• Serbo-Croatian: mŕziti — to dislike intensely
• Serbo-Croatian: mŕzeti — to dislike intensely
• Sinhalese: ද්වේෂ කරනවා (dwēṣa karanawā) — to dislike intensely
• Slovak: nenávidieť — to dislike intensely
• Slovene: sovražiti — to dislike intensely
• Lower Sorbian: gramowaś — to dislike intensely
• Lower Sorbian: gramjeś — to dislike intensely
• Spanish: odiar — to dislike intensely
• Sranan Tongo: wrak — to dislike intensely
• Sumerian: 𒄾𒈪𒉭 (ḪUL.IGI) — to dislike intensely
• Swahili: kuchukia — to dislike intensely
• Swedish: hata — to dislike intensely
• Tagalog: mapoot — to dislike intensely
• Tajik: нафрат доштан (nafrat doštan) — to dislike intensely
• Tajik: нафрат кардан (nafrat kardan) — to dislike intensely
• Tajik: бад додан (bad dodan) — to dislike intensely
• Tamil: வெறு (veṟu) — to dislike intensely
• Telugu: ఏవగించుకొను (ēvagiñcukonu) — to dislike intensely
• Telugu: అసహ్యించుకొను (asahyiñcukonu) — to dislike intensely
• Thai: เกลียด (glìiat) — to dislike intensely
• Tibetan: སྡང (sdang) — to dislike intensely
• Tibetan: ཞེ་འཁོན་འཛིན (zhe 'khon 'dzin) — to dislike intensely
• Tibetan: ཞེ་ལོག (zhe log) — to dislike intensely
• Turkish: nefret etmek — to dislike intensely
• Turkish: iğrenmek — to dislike intensely
• Turkish: tiksinmek — to dislike intensely
• Turkish: ikrah etmek — to dislike intensely
• Turkmen: ýigrenmek — to dislike intensely
• Turkmen: ýigrençmek — to dislike intensely
• Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎐𐎀 (šnả) — to dislike intensely
• Ukrainian: нена́видіти (nenávydity) — to dislike intensely
• Unami: shinkala — to dislike intensely
• Urdu: گھرنا کرنا (ghŕṇā karnā) — to dislike intensely
• Urdu: نفرت کرنا (nafrat karna) — to dislike intensely
• Uyghur: امان كۆرمەك (aman körmek) — to dislike intensely
• Uyghur: نەپرەتلەنمەك (nepretlenmek) — to dislike intensely
• Uzbek: yomon koʻrmoq — to dislike intensely
• Uzbek: nafratlanmoq — to dislike intensely
• Vietnamese: ghét — to dislike intensely
• Welsh: casáu — to dislike intensely
• Welsh: bod yn gas gan — to dislike intensely
• Yiddish: פֿײַנט האָבן (faynt hobn) — to dislike intensely
• Yiddish: האַסן (hasn) — to dislike intensely
• Zazaki: nefret kerden — to dislike intensely
• Zazaki: qıcığ gıroten — to dislike intensely