hobby

Etymology 1
Shortened from, from , , , from , , , "a nag, hobby"; > Modern French, Italian, of  origin: from , , from ; or from  origin related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; both ultimately from , from. More at,.

The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of or  (compare ).

Noun

 * 1) An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
 * 2)  An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the
 * 1)  An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the
 * 1)  An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the
 * 1)  An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the

Synonyms

 * (activity done for enjoyment in spare time):, ; See also Thesaurus:hobby

Related terms

 * /hobeler
 * /hobeler

Translations

 * Afrikaans: stokperdjie
 * Albanian: hobi
 * Arabic: هِوَايَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: hobbi
 * Basque: zaletasun
 * Belarusian: хо́бі, захапле́нне
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: хо́би,
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: го́бі
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 愛好, 嗜好
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ŝatokupo, hobio
 * Estonian: harrastus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: აჩემებული რამ, ჰობი, გატაცება
 * German: ,
 * Greek: χόμπυ, ,
 * Ancient: διατριβή
 * Gujarati: શોખ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: शौक़,
 * Hungarian:, , kedvenc időtöltés
 * Indonesian: hobbi,
 * Interlingua: hobby, passatempore
 * Irish: caitheamh aimsire
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: мұштақ
 * Khmer: ចំណង់ចំណូលចិត្ត, ចំណូលចិត្ត
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: хобби
 * Lao: ພັກສມອງ
 * Latin: oblectatio, voluptas, delicium, āvocāmentum
 * Latvian: hobijs, vaļasprieks
 * Lithuanian:, pomėgis
 * Macedonian: хоби
 * Malay:
 * Maori: mahi tākaro, runaruna
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hobby
 * Okinawan: 趣味
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: habby
 * Scottish Gaelic: cur-seachad, fòidearachd, gnàth-obair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хо̏би
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: koníček,
 * Slovene: konjiček
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hilig
 * Tajik: шавқ, саргарми
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དགའ་པོ་བྱེད་ཡག
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: güýmenje
 * Ukrainian: хо́бі, захо́плення
 * Urdu: مَشْغَلَہ, شَوق, تَفَنُّن
 * Uzbek: xobbi
 * Vietnamese: sở thích riêng,
 * Volapük:, livüpajäf
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: פֿערדל

Etymology 2
From, , from , , , from , diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) Any of four species of small falcons in the genus, especially.

Derived terms

 * African hobby,
 * Eurasian hobby,
 * Eurasian hobby,

Translations

 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian: сокол орко
 * Czech: ostříž lesní
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: vákasmyril
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 새홀리기
 * Manx: shirragh corranagh
 * Navajo: tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ chʼilhaatʼaʼii yázhí
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gearran-àrd, gormag, obag, seabhag nan uiseag
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

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 * 1)  an activity that one enjoys doing in one’s spare time

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