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From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) + -let (“small”).
hamlet (plural hamlets)
- A small village or a group of houses.
- Synonym: thorp
- (British) A village that does not have its own church.
- Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.
- (small village): settlement
small village
- Afrikaans: gehug (af)
- Armenian: շեն (hy) (šen), գյուղակ (hy) (gyuġak)
- Basque: herrixka
- Belarusian: вёсачка f (vjósačka), ху́тар m (xútar)
- Bulgarian: селце́ n (selcé)
- Catalan: poblet m
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: нымным (nymnym)
- Coptic: ϫⲉⲫⲣⲟ m (čephro), ⲉⲡⲟⲓⲕⲓⲟⲛ m (epoikion)
- Czech: osada (cs) f, víska (cs) f, dědinka f, kolonie (cs) f
- Danish: landsby (da), bygd
- Dutch: (boeren)gat n, gehucht (nl) n, negorij (nl), uithoek (nl)
- Esperanto: vilaĝeto
- Estonian: küla (et)
- Faroese: bygd f, smábygd f
- Finnish: pikkukylä (fi), kyläpahanen (fi)
- French: hameau (fr) m
- Galician: aldea (gl) f, lugar (gl) m, vilar (gl) m, casal m, poubea f
- Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli)
- German: Weiler (de) m, Dorf (de) n, (pejorative) Kaff (de) n
- Alemannic German: Wihr
- Greek: χωριουδάκι (el) n (chorioudáki)
- Hebrew: כפרון \ פַּרְוָן m (kfarón)
- Hungarian: (administrative terms) törpefalu, aprófalu (hu), (informal) falucska (hu), (esp. farmstead) tanya (hu)
- Ido: vilajeto (io)
- Indonesian: kampung (id)
- Irish: gráig f
- Italian: casale (it) m, località (it) f, villaggio (it) m, frazione (it) f, borgata (it) f, borgo (it) m
- Japanese: (a small village) 村落 (ja) (sonraku); (a group of houses) 集落 (ja) (shūraku)
- Khmer: កូនភូមិ (koun phuum)
- Korean: 촌락 (ko) (chollak), 마을 (ko) (ma'eul)
- Latin: vīcus (la) m, vīculus m,
- Latvian: sādža (lv) f, ciems (lv) m
- Macedonian: се́лце n (sélce), ка́тун m (kátun), за́селок m (záselok)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: balley beg m
- Mirandese: aldé f
- Norwegian: landsby (no), grend (no)
- Occitan: masatge (oc)
- Persian: دهکده (fa) (dehkade)
- Polish: przysiółek (pl) m, sioło (pl) n
- Portuguese: aldeia (pt) f, lugarejo (pt) m, aldeola (pt) f, arraial (pt) m
- Russian: дереву́шка (ru) f (derevúška), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor), сельцо́ (ru) n (selʹcó)
- Sanskrit: ग्राम (sa) m (grāma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: vasica f, zaselek m
- Spanish: aldehuela f, caserío (es) m, aldea (es) f, villar m
- Swedish: by (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: పల్లెటూరు (te) (palleṭūru)
- Turkish: mezra (tr)
- Ukrainian: сільце́ n (silʹcé), присі́лочок m (prysíločok), ху́тір (uk) m (xútir)
- Vietnamese: xóm (vi)
- Welsh: pentref bach m
- Yiddish: דערפֿל n (derfl)
- Yoruba: ìletò, abà, abúlé, egurè
village without its own church
- Chinese:
- Czech: vesnička (cs) f, dědina (cs) f
- Danish: bygd
- Estonian: küla (et)
- Finnish: kylä (fi) (as opposed to kirkonkylä)
- French: hameau (fr) m
- Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli)
- Irish: gráig f
- Italian: casale (it) m
- Japanese: (used to describe such European villages) 小村 (こむら, komura)
- Russian: дере́вня (ru) f (derévnja), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor)
- Spanish: aldea (es) f
- Swedish: by (sv) c
- Telugu: పల్లె (te) (palle)
fish
- Finnish: Hypoplectrus
- German: Hamletbarsche
- Japanese: ハムレット (hamuretto)
- Lithuanian: vakos
- Swedish: hypoplectrus
Translations to be checked
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
From ham (“skin”) + let (“colour”).
hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)
- skin colour, complexion
- Synonym: hudfarge
- Han var mørk i hamleten. ― His skin colour was dark.
- “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
From ham (“skin”) + let (“colour”).
hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)
- “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.