English

Adjective

hind ‎(comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

Derived terms

• hind leg

Translations

Etymology 2

Wikispecies From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- ‎(“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

Noun

hind ‎(plural hinds)

1. A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.1.3:

     Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.

2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

Synonyms

• (female deer): doe

Translations

Etymology 3

Old English hī(ġ)na, genitive plural of hīġa ‎(“servant, family member”), in the phrase hīna fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde ‎(“servant”).

Noun

hind ‎(plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.51:

     Attilius Regulus […] writ unto the common-wealth, that a hyne [transl. valet de labourage] or plough-boy, whom he had left alone to oversee and husband his land (which in all was but seven acres of ground) was run away from his charge […].

   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:

     The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:

     that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!

For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:hind.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hend/, [henˀ]

Noun

hind c (singular definite hinden, plural indefinite hinder or hinde)

1. hind (female deer)

Inflection

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hinta. Cognate with Finnish hinta.

Noun

hind ‎(genitive hinna, partitive hinda)

1. price

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪnt/

Etymology 1

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. membrane

Declension

Synonyms

• hinna

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic.

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. hind (female deer)

Declension

Derived terms

• hindber

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

hind f ‎(genitive singular hindar, nominative plural hindir)

1. female deer, hind

Declension

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, whence also Old High German hinta, Old Norse hind.

Noun

hind f

1. hind

Scots

Alternative forms

• hynd, hynde, hyne, hin, hine

Etymology

From Early Scots hyne ‎(“stripling”), from Northumbrian Old English hīȝu or hīȝan ‎(“members of a household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhəin(d)/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪnd/

Noun

hind ‎(plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A skilled labourer on a farm, especially a ploughman. In Southern Scotland, specifically a married skilled farmworker given housing in a cottage and often given special privileges in addition to his wages. Occasionally a derogatory term.

Derived terms

• hindin ‎(“the act of being a hind”)
• hindish ‎(“to be like a hind; rustic”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hind, cognate with Old High German hinta, German Hinde, English hind.

Noun

hind c

1. a doe, a hind; the female of deer

   skygg som en hind

   shy as a doe

   Man kan ej för samma kärra spänna en häst och en hind

   One can not harness to the same cart a horse and a trembling doe

Declension

References

• hind in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.