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Mahout

Definition: Mahout

Mahout

Noun

1. (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)

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Usage Frequency: Mahout

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mahout

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

elephant mahout

4

mahout

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mahout

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mahout

Derivations

Words beginning with "mahout": mahouts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Mahout

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mahout


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 68 6F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#116

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476774818786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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