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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav Forms: hamstrings [plural]
Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ Etymology: From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ham|string|gloss1=region back of the knee joint|id1=anatomy}} ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Head templates: {{en-noun}} hamstring (plural hamstrings)
  1. (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. Categories (topical): Anatomy Translations (great tendon): وَتَر اَلْمَأْبَض (watar al-maʔbaḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), колянно сухожилие (koljanno suhožilie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), hase (Danish), takareiden lihas (Finnish), ischio-jambier [masculine] (French), Hüftgelenkextensoren [masculine, plural] (German), Kniesehne [feminine] (German), ischiocrurale Muskulatur [feminine] (German), rückseitige Oberschenkelmuskulatur [feminine] (German), térdín (Hungarian), teannán ioscaide [masculine] (Irish), iohere kātete (Maori), Hakesän [feminine] (Plautdietsch), подколе́нное сухожи́лие (podkolénnoje suxožílije) [neuter] (Russian), поджи́лки (podžílki) [colloquial, feminine, plural] (Russian), isquiotibial [masculine] (Spanish), músculo isquiotibial [masculine] (Spanish), isquiotibiales [masculine, plural] (Spanish), músculos isquiotibiales [masculine, plural] (Spanish), knäsena [common-gender] (Swedish), hassena [common-gender] (Swedish), litid sa alakalakan (Tagalog), llinyn y gar [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-noun-6rAcuWte Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'great tendon': 70 30
  2. (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles. Tags: informal Synonyms: hams, hammy, hammie
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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav Forms: hamstrings [present, singular, third-person], hamstringing [participle, present], hamstrung [participle, past], hamstrung [past], hamstringed [participle, past], hamstringed [past]
Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ Etymology: From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ham|string|gloss1=region back of the knee joint|id1=anatomy}} ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Head templates: {{en-verb|hamstrings|hamstringing|hamstrung|past2=hamstringed}} hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)
  1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough. Tags: transitive Synonyms: hock, hough, hox
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-verb-PULAwwUt
  2. (transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. Tags: figuratively, transitive Synonyms: cripple, incapacitate, disable Translations (to disable): عَقَرَ (ʕaqara) (Arabic), осакатявам (osakatjavam) (Bulgarian), контузвам (kontuzvam) (Bulgarian), lamaannuttaa (Finnish), rampauttaa (Finnish), paralyser (French), speir (Irish), سڭیرلمك (siñirlemek) (Ottoman Turkish), sinirlemek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-verb-YbB0V9uy Disambiguation of 'to disable': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: disable

Noun [Swedish]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], hamstring [indefinite, nominative, singular]
Etymology: hamstra + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|sv|hamstra|ing|id2=verbal noun}} hamstra + -ing Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} hamstring c, {{sv-noun|c}} hamstring c
  1. hoarding, the act of gathering or hoarding consumables in anticipation of a shortage (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks) Tags: common-gender Related terms: hamster, hamstrare, hamstringsvåg

Inflected forms

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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hoarding, the act of gathering or hoarding consumables in anticipation of a shortage (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hoarding",
          "hoarding"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hamstring"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hamstring meaning in All languages combined (12.1kB)

{
  "called_from": "parser/328",
  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "hamstring"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "hamstring",
  "trace": "started on line 4, detected on line 34"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "hamstring"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "hamstring",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 34"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "hamstring"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "hamstring",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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