mahout

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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈhaʊt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈhuːt/
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• General-American: /məˈhaʊt/
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• General-American: /məˈhut/
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• India: /məˈhaːʋət̪/
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• rhymes with -aʊt
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PIE word *méǵh2s The noun is borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi महौत (mahaut)/Urdu مَہَوت (mahaut)), महाउत (mahāut), variants of महावत (mahāvat)/مَہاوَت (mahāvat), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “elephant keeper; high official; king’s minister”), from महा (mahā, “great”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh2s (“big, great”)) + मात्र (mātra, “measure; quantity”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh1- (“to measure”)). The verb is derived from the noun.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سَائِسُ فِيل (sāʔisu fīl) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Assamese: মাউত (maut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Basque: mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Bengali: মাহুত (mahut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Burmese: ဆင်ဦးစီး (hcang-u:ci:) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Burmese: ယရည်း (ya.rany:) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Catalan: cornac — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Chinese Mandarin: 象夫 (xiàngfū) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Chinese Mandarin: 象奴 (xiàngnú) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Danish: mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Danish: mahut — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Danish: elefantdriver — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Danish: elefantfører — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Estonian: elevandijuht — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Finnish: norsunajaja — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• French: mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• French: cornac — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Galician: cornaca — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• German: Mahaut — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• German: Mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• German: Mahut — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• German: Elefantentreiber — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Old Gujarati: पुंतार (puṃtāra) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Hebrew: פַּיָּל (payal) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Hindi: महौत (mahaut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Hindi: महाउत (mahāut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Hindi: महावत (mahāvat) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Hungarian: elefánthajcsár — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Indonesian: mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Kamta: মাহুত (mahut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Khmer: ហត្ថិគោបកៈ (hatthe’koopa’ka’) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Khmer: ហ្មដំរី (mɑɑ dɑmrəy) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Khmer: ទ្រមាក់ (trɔmeak) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Korean: 머하웃 (meohaut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Central Kurdish: فیلەوان (fîlewan) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Northern Kurdish: fîlvan — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Lithuanian: mahoutas — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Macedonian: ма́хаут (máhaut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Malayalam: ആനപ്പാപ്പാൻ (ānappāppāṉ) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Malayalam: പാപ്പാൻ (pāppāṉ) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Norwegian Bokmål: elefantfører — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Persian: فیلبان — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Polish: kornak — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Portuguese: cornaca — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Punjabi: ਮਹੌਤ (mahaut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Romanian: cornac — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Russian: махау́т (maxaút) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Russian: пого́нщик слоно́в (pogónščik slonóv) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Spanish: mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Spanish: cornaca — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Swedish: mahout — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Tamil: பணிக்கன் (paṇikkaṉ) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Tamil: யானைப்பாகன் (yāṉaippākaṉ) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Telugu: గజారోహుడు (gajārōhuḍu) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Telugu: మావటి (māvaṭi) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Thai: ควาญ (kwaan) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Thai: ควาญช้าง (kwaan) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Ottoman Turkish: فیلجی (filci) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Urdu: مَہَوت (mahaut) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Urdu: مَہاوَت (mahāvat) — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Vietnamese: quản tượng — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Vietnamese: nài — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Middle Vietnamese: quan voi — elephant trainer, keeper, and driver
• Catalan: muntar elefants — to drive (an elephant or elephants)
• Finnish: ajaa norsua — to drive (an elephant or elephants)
• Catalan: muntar elefants — to drive elephants
• Finnish: ajaa norsuja — to drive elephants