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Definition: Mahout |
MahoutNoun1. (India) the driver and keeper of an elephant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mahout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
| "Mahout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mahout" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
elephant mahout | 4 |
mahout | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mahout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سائق الفيل, الفيال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | водач на слон. (various references) | |
French | cornac. (various references) | |
German | mahaut, elephantenführer. (various references) | |
Greek | φύλακασ ελέφαντοσ, οδηγόσ ελέφαντοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "' פיל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | elefánthajcsár, elefántápoló. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ahoutmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maometano (mohawk, moslem calendar, turk). (various references) | |
Romanian | conducãtor de elefanţi. (various references) | |
Russian | погонщик слонов. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čuvar slonova u indiji. (various references) | |
Spanish | conduce de elefantes. (various references) | |
Thai | ควาญช้าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | fil seyisi, fil sürücüsü. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mahout": mahouts. (additional references) | |
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"Mahout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahoot, ahout, Dahouk, mabou, Madhuc, mahat, mahaut, Mahboob, maheux, Mahgoub, Mahit, Mahjub, Mahmuda, maho, mahood, Mahoud, mahoun, Mahroof, mahu, Mahuad, Makhou, Makouti, Malouf, Mamou, masou, Mathiot, Mayott, Mazoud, Mewhort, mhot, Mihoub, Mkhonta, Mkhonto, Nahautl, Nahuatl, Nebout, Nijhout. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-m-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mouth. | |
-2 letters: atom, auto, haut, math, maut, moat, moth, oath, thou. | |
-3 letters: amu, ham, hao, hat, hot, hum, hut, mat, mho, moa, mot, mut, oat, ohm, out, tam, tao, tau, tho, tom, uta. | |
-4 letters: ah, am, at, ha, hm, ho, ma, mo, mu, oh, om, ta, to, uh, um, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-m-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: mahouts. | |
+2 letters: badmouth, outcharm, outmarch, outmatch, outshame, warmouth. | |
+3 letters: anthodium, badmouths, goalmouth, housemate, moustache, mouthpart, mouthwash, mustachio, outcharms, outshamed, outshames, touchmark, warmouths. | |
+4 letters: apothecium, avouchment, badmouthed, ethambutol, exhumation, goalmouths, haustorium, housemates, inhumation, largemouth, moustaches, moustachio, mouthparts, mustachios, outcharmed, outmarched, outmarches, outmatched, outmatches, outshaming, photomural, protohuman, rheumatoid, smallmouth, touchmarks. | |
+5 letters: avouchments, badmouthing, champertous, ethambutols, euchromatic, euchromatin, exhumations, hardmouthed, housemaster, humiliation, inhumations, largemouths, moustachios, mouthwashes, multiauthor, mustachioed, outcharming, outmarching, outmatching, photomurals, prothallium, protohumans, rhizomatous, smallmouths, ultrasmooth. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 68 6F 75 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .... --- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a h o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0068 006F 0075 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476774818786 |
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