hamlet

See also: HAMLET and Hamlet

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm.lɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm.lət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: Hamlet

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.

   Synonym: thorp

2. (British) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Derived terms

• Bures Hamlet
• Clint cum Hamlets
• Dawley Hamlets
• Holsworthy Hamlets
• Okehampton Hamlets
• Stockley Hamlet
• Tower Hamlets

Translations

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:

  Mandarin: 村莊／村庄 (zh) (cūnzhuāng), 小村 (xiǎocūn)

• 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:

  Cyrillic: засеок m, насеље n, сеоце n, заселак m

  Roman: zaseok m, naselje (sh) n, seoce (sh) n, zaselak (sh) m

• 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:

  Mandarin: 部落無教會的小村莊／部落无教会的小村庄 (bùluò wú jiāohuì de xiǎo cūnzhuāng)

• 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

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Translations to be checked

• Old English: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +‎ let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

   Synonym: hudfarge

   Han var mørk i hamleten. ― His skin colour was dark.

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hamlìt

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +‎ let (“colour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ha(ː)mleːt/

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.