hart en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.
Meanings
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(countable) A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Then, finding Herds of luſtie Deare, / She Huntreſſe-like the Hart purſues; […]
1612, Michael Drayton, “The thirteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 213:
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(uncountable) The meat from this animal.
The people of Israel knew something of hunting, as in the stories of eating hart and roebuck, and venison.
1999, James B[iser] Whisker, “Hunting in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition”, in The Right to Hunt, revised edition, Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, →ISBN, page 38:We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada.
1891 July 8, L. S., “Twenty Hidden Towns in One State”, in Good Housekeeping […], volume XIII, number 2 (154 overall), Springfield, Mass., published August 1891, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:Still, the people of Israel certainly knew about hunting, because they ate hart (red deer) and roe deer.
2003, Richard D. Taber, Neil F. Payne, “Ancient Warrior-Rulers”, in Wildlife, Conservation, and Human Welfare: A United States and Canadian Perspective, Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 30:
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) The stag of any deer species.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hart | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| harts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
White Hart Lane · Hartford · Elkhart · hart of grease · Hertford · hartshorn · hartwort · hartstongue
Hypernyms
deer · mammal · cervid · creature · ungulate · animal · critter
Synonyms
Translations (33)
tr erkek karaca (male deer) · nl hert (male deer) · es macho m de ciervo (male deer) · pdt Hersch (male deer) · pt cervo (male deer) · sk jeleň (male deer) · sv hjort (male deer) · nb kronhjort (male deer) · it cervo maschio (male deer) · fi saksanhirviuros (male deer) · ar أَيَّل (male deer) · ru саме́ц оленя (male deer) · de Hirschbock (male deer) · tr erkek geyik (male deer) · uga 𐎀𐎊𐎍 (male deer) · la cervus (male deer) · nb bukk (male deer) · mi hāta (male deer) · nl reebok (male deer) · de männlicher Hirsch (male deer) · he אַיָּל (male deer) · fro cerf (male deer) · nl hertenbok (male deer) · ga damhfhia (male deer) · ga carria (male deer) · fy hart (male deer) · nds-de Hirsch (male deer) · pl jeleń (male deer) · ang heorot (male deer) · mk срндак (male deer) · fr cerf (male deer) · cs jelen (male deer) · fo hjørtur (male deer)