hamster

Etymology
(see for etymology). Displaced earlier term.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various Old-World rodent species belonging to the subfamily.
 * 2) especially of species  (the golden hamster) and species of genus , often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
 * 3) Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster,, mouse-like hamsters of genus , and the white-tailed rat.
 * 1) Other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster,, mouse-like hamsters of genus , and the white-tailed rat.

Synonyms

 * Syrian hamster

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hamster
 * Albanian: lloj brejtësi
 * Arabic: قَدَاد, هَامِسْتَر
 * Egyptian Arabic: هَامِسْتَر
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: dağsiçanı
 * Bashkir: алйырҙан, ирлән
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: хамя́к
 * Breton: hamster
 * Bulgarian:, ха́мстер
 * Burmese: ဟမ်းစတား
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: оьпа
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: viala
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hamstro
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hamstur, hamstrari
 * Finnish:
 * French:, rat de blé
 * Friulian: cricęt
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: हैम्स्टर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: hamster
 * Irish: hamstar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 絹毛鼠, キヌゲネズミ
 * Karakalpak: balpaq tıshqan
 * Kazakh: атжалман
 * Korean:, 뵤
 * Kumyk: авлакъ чычкъан
 * Kyrgyz: хомяк
 * Latvian: kāmis
 * Lithuanian: žiurkėnas
 * Macedonian: хрчак
 * Malay: tikus belanda
 * Maltese: ħamster
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: арлан, комаголя
 * Western Mari: ӓрлӓн, ӓрлӓнгы
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: үхэр зусаг,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hamster
 * Occitan: amstèr
 * Old East Slavic: хомѣкъ
 * Persian: همستر, موش بزرگ
 * Polish:
 * Old Polish: krzeczek, skrzeczek
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: furmanter, raffun, raspun
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: hamstair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хр́чак
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: zemcygaŕ
 * Upper Sorbian: žurk
 * Southern Altai: эрлен
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hamster
 * Tajik: миримӯшон
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: แฮมสเตอร์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хом'я́к
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: bochdew
 * West Frisian: hamster

Verb

 * 1)  To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Luxembourgish: hamsteren
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hamstra
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

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