name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
hilt
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/hɪlt/
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH1 L T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
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Synonyms: haft
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noun
Meaning 3
The base of the penis.
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verb
Meaning 4
To provide with a hilt.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (e.g. finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 6
the handle of a sword or dagger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: handle, grip, handgrip, hold
Narrower terms: basket hilt
History
Etymology
From Middle English hilt, hilte, from Old English hilt, hilte, from Proto-Germanic *heltą, *heltǭ, *heltō, *hiltijō, (compare Old Norse hjalt, Old High German helza, Old Saxon helta), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to strike, cut”) (see holt).
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَقْبَض (maqbaḍ) — handle of a sword
- Armenian: դաստակ (dastak) — handle of a sword
- Belarusian: рукая́тка (rukajátka) — handle of a sword
- Belarusian: дзяржа́нне (dzjaržánnje) — handle of a sword
- Belarusian: эфе́с (efjés) — handle of a sword
- Belarusian: рукая́ць (rukajácʹ) — handle of a sword
- Bulgarian: ефес (efes) — handle of a sword
- Catalan: empunyadura — handle of a sword
- Chinese Mandarin: 柄 (bǐng) — handle of a sword
- Chinese Mandarin: 刀柄 (dāobǐng) — handle of a sword
- Czech: jílec — handle of a sword
- Danish: hæfte — handle of a sword
- Dutch: heft — handle of a sword
- Esperanto: tenilo — handle of a sword
- Finnish: kahva — handle of a sword
- French: poignée — handle of a sword
- Galician: puño — handle of a sword
- Galician: mango — handle of a sword
- German: Griff — handle of a sword
- Greek: λαβή (laví) — handle of a sword
- Ancient Greek: λαβή (labḗ) — handle of a sword
- Hungarian: markolat — handle of a sword
- Icelandic: hjalt — handle of a sword
- Indonesian: gagang — handle of a sword
- Irish: dornchla — handle of a sword
- Irish: feirc — handle of a sword
- Italian: impugnatura — handle of a sword
- Italian: elsa — handle of a sword
- Italian: coccia — handle of a sword
- Italian: guardamano — handle of a sword
- Japanese: 柄 (tsuka) — handle of a sword
- Khmer: ដង (dɑɑŋ) — handle of a sword
- Khmer: ច្រាម (craam) — handle of a sword
- Korean: 칼자루 (kaljaru) — handle of a sword
- Korean: 자루 (jaru) — handle of a sword
- Latin: manūbrium — handle of a sword
- Lithuanian: rankena — handle of a sword
- Macedonian: балчак (balčak) — handle of a sword
- Malay: hulu — handle of a sword
- Mongolian: бариул (bariul) — handle of a sword
- Norwegian Bokmål: hjalt — handle of a sword
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hjalt — handle of a sword
- Polish: rękojeść — handle of a sword
- Portuguese: empunhadura — handle of a sword
- Portuguese: cabo — handle of a sword
- Portuguese: mango — handle of a sword
- Russian: рукоя́тка (rukojátka) — handle of a sword
- Russian: эфе́с (efés) — handle of a sword
- Russian: рукоя́ть (rukojátʹ) — handle of a sword
- Serbo-Croatian: balčak — handle of a sword
- Spanish: empuñadura — handle of a sword
- Spanish: mango — handle of a sword
- Swedish: hjalt — handle of a sword
- Tagalog: puluhan — handle of a sword
- Turkish: kabza — handle of a sword
- Ukrainian: рукоя́тка (rukojátka) — handle of a sword
- Ukrainian: рукоя́ть (rukojátʹ) — handle of a sword
- Ukrainian: держа́к (deržák) — handle of a sword
- Ukrainian: держа́ло (deržálo) — handle of a sword
- Ukrainian: ефе́с (efés) — handle of a sword
- Ukrainian: де́ржално (déržalno) — handle of a sword
- Vietnamese: chuôi — handle of a sword
- Vietnamese: cán — handle of a sword
- Welsh: carn — handle of a sword