hamper
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhæm.pə/Category:English 2-syllable words#HAMPERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HAMPER
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæm.pɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#HAMPERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HAMPER
- Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/æmpə(ɹ)#HAMPERCategory:Rhymes:English/æmpə(ɹ)/2 syllables#HAMPER
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#HAMPERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#HAMPER hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#HAMPER hanaper, Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#HAMPER hanapier, hanepier (“case for holding a large goblet or cup”), from hanap (“goblet, drinking cup”), from FrankishCategory:English terms derived from Frankish#HAMPER *hnapp (“cup, bowl, basin”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HAMPER *hnappaz (“cup, bowl”).
Cognate with Old High German hnapf (“cup, bowl, basin”) (German Napf (“bowl”)), Dutch nap (“cup”), Old English hnæpp (“bowl”). More at nap.
Alternative forms
- hampire (obsolete)
Noun
hamper (plural hampers)Category:English lemmas#HAMPERCategory:English nouns#HAMPERCategory:English countable nouns#HAMPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HAMPERCategory:Pages with entries#HAMPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#HAMPER
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- a hamper of wineCategory:English terms with usage examples#HAMPER
- a clothes hamperCategory:English terms with usage examples#HAMPER
- an oyster hamper, which contains two bushelsCategory:English terms with usage examples#HAMPER
- (USCategory:American English#HAMPER) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- (UKCategory:British English#HAMPER) A gift basket.
Derived terms
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Verb
hamper (third-person singular simple present hampers, present participle hampering, simple past and past participle hampered)Category:English lemmas#HAMPERCategory:English verbs#HAMPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HAMPERCategory:Pages with entries#HAMPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#HAMPER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HAMPER) To put into a hamper.
- Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts.Category:English terms with usage examples#HAMPER
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#HAMPERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#HAMPER hamperen, hampren (“to hamper, oppress”), probably of the same origin as English hamble (“to limp”), Scots hamp (“to halt in walking, stutter”), Dutch haperen (“to falter, hesitate”), German hemmen (“to stop, hinder, check”). More at hamble.
Verb
hamper (third-person singular simple present hampers, present participle hampering, simple past and past participle hampered)Category:English lemmas#HAMPERCategory:English verbs#HAMPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HAMPERCategory:Pages with entries#HAMPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#HAMPER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HAMPER) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
- Coordinate terms: ensnareCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, inveigleCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER
- Near-synonym: hobbleCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER
- 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act III, signature F2, verso:
- Wife. Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine. Now I charge you Gentlemen, see the Kings peace kept. O my heart what a varlet's this to offer manslaughter vpon the harmlesse Gntlewoman?Category:English terms with quotations#HAMPER
Cit. I warrant thee (sweet heart) wee'l haue him hampered.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- A lion hampered in a net.Category:English terms with quotations#HAMPER
- To impede in motion or progress.
- Synonyms: hinderCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, impairCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, disableCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, handicapCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, embarrassCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, encumberCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER, crampCategory:English links with manual fragments#HAMPER
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem:
- Engend'ring heats, these one by one unbind, Stretch their small tubes, and hamper'd nerves unwind.Category:English terms with quotations#HAMPER
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion:
- They hamper and entangle our souls.Category:English terms with quotations#HAMPER
- 2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, page 44:
- NR Senior Programme Manager Adrian Elliott describes the progress to date: "The weather has played a big part in hampering the programme. We had the wettest autumn ever and a number of winter storms to contend with, [...]Category:English terms with quotations#HAMPER
Derived terms
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Noun
hamper (plural hampers)Category:English lemmas#HAMPERCategory:English nouns#HAMPERCategory:English countable nouns#HAMPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HAMPERCategory:Pages with entries#HAMPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#HAMPER
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#HAMPER) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- One afternoon there was a mighty queer noise aloft, which set the men running in every direction. It was the main-t'-gallant-mast. Crash! it broke off just above the cap, and held there by the rigging, dashed with every roll from side to side, with all the hamper that belonged to it.Category:English terms with quotations#HAMPER
Derived terms
- top-hamper (“unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft”)
- unhamper
Translations
Anagrams
Category:en:Containers#HAMPERIndonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Indonesian terms derived from Middle English#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Anglo-Norman#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old French#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Frankish#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HAMPERPseudo-anglicism, derived from hamperCategory:Indonesian pseudo-loans from English#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#HAMPER.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian)
- Syllabification: ham‧per
Noun
hampêr (plural hamper-hamper)Category:Indonesian lemmas#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian nouns#HAMPERCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#HAMPERCategory:Pages with entries#HAMPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#HAMPER
Further reading
- “hamper”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Old Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old NorseCategory:Old Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#HAMPERCategory:Old Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#HAMPER hampr, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Old Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HAMPERCategory:Old Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HAMPER *hanapiz.
Noun
hamper mCategory:Old Swedish lemmas#HAMPERCategory:Old Swedish nouns#HAMPERCategory:Old Swedish entries with incorrect language header#HAMPERCategory:Old Swedish masculine nouns#HAMPERCategory:Pages with entries#HAMPERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#HAMPER
Declension
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hamper | hamprin | hampar | hampanir, hampaner |
| accusative | hamp | hampin | hampa | hampana |
| dative | hampi, hampe | hampinum, hampenom | hampum, hampom | hampumin, hampomen |
| genitive | hamps | hampsins | hampa | hampanna |
Descendants
- Swedish: hampa
References
- “hamper”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- hamper in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L