hamster

• hampster (obsolete)

Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/

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hamster (plural hamsters)

1. Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.

   The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.

   • 2013, George deStevens, Ernst Jucker, V. Zingel, Progress in Drug Research, page 166:

     Since the pregnancy interceptive agents or the menses regulators may also influence the development of either trophoblasts or the maternal cells (epithelial and stromal) at the embryo attachment site, another in vitro assay method using using trophoblast cells of hamster and mouse isolated from a preplacental organelle, the ectoplacental cone, has been developed.

   1. In particular, a rodent of the species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) or of a species of the genera Cricetiscus and Phodopus (the dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
2. Any of various other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).

• (golden hamster): Syrian hamster

• → Cornish: hamster
• → Japanese: ハムスター (hamusutā)
• → Korean: 햄스터 (haemseuteo)
• → Scottish Gaelic: hamstair
• → Tagalog: hamster
• → Thai: แฮมสเตอร์ (hɛms-dtə̂ə)
• → Turkish: hamster

• gerbil
• guinea pig
• mouse
• rat

hamster (third-person singular simple present hamsters, present participle hamstering, simple past and past participle hamstered)

1. (ambitransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

   Synonym: stash

   • 1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life, page 43:

     Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.

   • 2004, Sharon L. Pywell, What Happened to Henry, page 50:

     […] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]

   • 2014, Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain:

     […] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]

• hamster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Golden hamster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hamster in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.

• Amherst, harmest

Borrowed from English hamster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhamstɛɹ/

hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. hamster

From German Hamster.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɑmˀsd̥ɐ]

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hamster c (singular definite hamsteren, plural indefinite hamstere)

1. a hamster

• “hamster” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑmstər/

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• Hyphenation: ham‧ster

Borrowed from German Hamster.

hamster m (plural hamsters, diminutive hamstertje n)

1. hamster

• dwerghamster
• goudhamster
• hamsterbal
• hamsteren
• hamstermolen

• → Papiamentu: hamster

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hamster

1. inflection of hamsteren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /am.stɛʁ/

  • Audio (France (Paris)); “un hamster”:

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /am.stɚ/

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hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. hamster

• “hamster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

hamster

1. singular imperative of hamstern

Inherited from Old High German hamustro.

hamster m

1. hamster

• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Hamster
• German: Hamster
  • → Catalan: hàmster
  • → English: hamster, hampster (obsolete)
    • → Cornish: hamster
    • → Japanese: ハムスター (hamusutā)
    • → Korean: 햄스터 (haemseuteo)
    • → Scottish Gaelic: hamstair
    • → Tagalog: hamster
    • → Thai: แฮมสเตอร์ (hɛms-dtə̂ə)
    • → Turkish: hamster
  • → Danish: hamster
  • → Dutch: hamster
    • → Papiamentu: hamster
  • → French: hamster
  • → Luxembourgish: Hamster
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: hamster
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hamster
  • → Portuguese: hamster
  • → Romanian: hamster
  • → Swedish: hamster

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “hamster”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition

From German Hamster.

hamster m (definite singular hamsteren, indefinite plural hamstere or hamstre or hamstrer, definite plural hamsterne or hamstrene)

1. a hamster

• “hamster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German Hamster.

hamster m (definite singular hamsteren, indefinite plural hamsterar, definite plural hamsterane)

1. a hamster

• “hamster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• hámster (Portugal)
• hâmster (Brazil)

Unadapted borrowing from German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. hamster (small, short-tailed European rodent)

• “hamster”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “hámster”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “hámster”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “hamster”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “hamster”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Borrowed from German Hamster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈham.ster/

hamster m (plural hamsteri)

1. hamster

Borrowed from German Hamster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxamsteɾ/ [ˈxãms.t̪eɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -amsteɾ
• Syllabification: hams‧ter

hamster m (plural hamsters)

1. alternative form of hámster

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “hamster”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

hamster c

1. hamster

   Hamstern sprang i hjulet

   The hamster was running in the wheel

• hamster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hamster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hamster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from English hamster.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhamsteɾ/ [ˈhams.t̪ɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -amsteɾ
• Syllabification: hams‧ter

hamster (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜋ᜔ᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

1. hamster
   • 1996, Emmanuel A. Reyes, Malikhaing pelikula: mga sanaysay tungkol sa pelikulang Pilipino:

     Ilalagay ni PAUL ang retrato ni Ferdinand at Imelda Marcos sa likod ng kulungan ng mga hamster.

     PAUL will place the picture of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos behind the hamster cage.

   • 2020, TINA LATA, The Good Girl's Revenge:

     Kung may nasabi man akong hindi maganda, bakit hindi niya sabihin sa 'kin? Hindi naman ako manghuhula para malaman kung anong problema niya. Tiningnan ko 'yong hamster na gusto kong bilhin pero naisip ko si Tammy.

     If I said something bad, why didn't she tell me? I'm not going to guess what her problem is. I looked at the hamster I wanted to buy but I thought of Tammy.

From English hamster.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɑm.s(ɯ)tæɾ]
• Hyphenation: hams‧ter

hamster (definite accusative hamsteri, plural hamsterler)

1. hamster