"Hammel" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhaməl/ Audio: De-Hammel.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German hamel, from Old High German hamal (“wether”, also an adjective “castrated”), from Proto-Germanic *hamalaz (“mutilated”). Cognate with Dutch hamel. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|hamel}} Middle High German hamel, {{inh|de|goh|hamal|t=wether”, also an adjective “castrated}} Old High German hamal (“wether”, also an adjective “castrated”), {{inh|de|gem-pro|*hamalaz|t=mutilated}} Proto-Germanic *hamalaz (“mutilated”), {{cog|nl|hamel}} Dutch hamel Head templates: {{de-noun|m,,-:^}} Hammel m (strong, genitive Hammels, plural Hammel or Hämmel) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,,-:^}} Forms: Hammels [genitive], Hammel [plural], Hämmel [plural], strong [table-tags], Hammel [nominative, singular], Hammel [definite, nominative, plural], Hämmel [definite, nominative, plural], Hammels [genitive, singular], Hammel [definite, genitive, plural], Hämmel [definite, genitive, plural], Hammel [dative, singular], Hammeln [dative, definite, plural], Hämmeln [dative, definite, plural], Hammel [accusative, singular], Hammel [accusative, definite, plural], Hämmel [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. wether (castrated ram) Tags: masculine, strong Synonyms (wether): kastriert (alt: Schafsbock), verschnitten Schafbock (Schafsbock) (alt: Schafsbock), Schöps [Austria, Eastern, Germany]
    Sense id: en-Hammel-de-noun-QmFvgNLu Disambiguation of 'wether': 64 36 0
  2. Short for Hammelfleisch: the meat of a wether used for food; mutton Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, masculine, strong Alternative form of: Hammelfleisch (extra: the meat of a wether used for food; mutton)
    Sense id: en-Hammel-de-noun-F8yDt7uk Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Male animals, Meats Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 10 77 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 11 72 4 11 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 83 2 6 2 Disambiguation of Male animals: 7 87 7 Disambiguation of Meats: 5 90 5
  3. jackass (person) Tags: masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-Hammel-de-noun-sTs~J7DZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Schöpsernes [Austrian], Schöpsenfleisch [Austria, Eastern, Germany] Related terms: Hämling
Derived forms: Blödhammel, Dreckhammel, Hammelbein, Hammelbraten, Hammelbrust, Hammeleintopf, Hammelfett, Hammelfettjade, Hammelfleisch, Hammelgedärm, Hammelgeld, Hammelherde, Hammelkeule, Hammelkotelett, Hammelragout, Hammelrippchen, Hammelrücken, Hammelschenkel, Hammelschlegel, Hammelschulter, Hammelsprung, Hammelsteak, Hammeltalg, Leithammel, Leithammelstaat, Neidhammel, Streithammel

Inflected forms

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        "Austria",
        "Eastern",
        "Germany"
      ],
      "word": "Schöpsenfleisch"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hammel"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Hammel meaning in German (4.8kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). 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.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.