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Webster 1913 Edition

Mahout

‖

Ma-hout′

,

Noun.

[Hind.

mahāwat

, Skr.

mahāmātra

;

mahat

great +

mātrā

measure.]

The keeper and driver of an elephant.

[East Indies]

Definition 2024

mahout

mahout

English

Mahout on an elephant.

Noun

mahout ‎(plural mahouts)

an elephant driver and keeper

Translations

elephant driver and keeper

Chinese:
Mandarin:
Esperanto:
Estonian: elevandijuht
Finnish: norsunajaja
French: cornac (fr) m
German: Elefantentreiber m
Hebrew: פַּיָּל (he) m ‎(payal)
Hindi: महावत (hi) m ‎(mahāvat)
Hungarian: elefánthajcsár

Khmer: ហត្ថិគោបកៈ ‎(hattʰe’koopa’ka’), ទ្រមាក់ (km) ‎(trɔmeak), ហ្មដំរី ‎(maa dɑmrəy)
Kurdish: fîlvan
Polish: kornak m
Portuguese: cornaca (pt) m
Russian: махаут m ‎(makhaut)
Spanish: cornaca (es) m
Telugu: మావటి (te) ‎(māvaṭi)
Thai:
Vietnamese: quản tượng (vi)

Verb

mahout ‎(third-person singular simple present mahouts, present participle mahouting, simple past and past participle mahouted)

drive elephants

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:mahout.

Spanish

Noun

mahout m ‎(plural mahouts)

mahout