halter

See also: Halter

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔltɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- +‎ -ter.

Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).

Alternative forms

• helter (obsolete, Northern England)

Noun

halter (plural halters)

A horse wearing a halter

1. A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.

   Synonyms: headstall, headpiece, (British) headcollar

2. A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.

   Synonyms: collar; see also Thesaurus:hangman's noose

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter [translating hart].

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

     “ […] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […].”

3. A halter top.

Derived terms

• halterbreak
• halterini
• halterkini
• halterless
• halterneck
• halter neck
• halterpath
• halter-sack
• halter-top, haltertop
• riding halter
• slip-halter
• unhalter
• wag-halter

Translations

animal's headgear

• Albanian: kapistër (sq)
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: нокто (nokto)

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: رْسن m (rsən)

• Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap), սանձ (hy) (sanj), պախուրց (hy) (paxurcʻ)
• Aromanian: cãpestru n
• Bulgarian: оглавник (bg) m (oglavnik)
• Catalan: cabestre (ca) m, ramal m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗᎭ (alewisdodiha)
• Cheyenne: hóxeeséeto'hamestôtse
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韁繩 / 缰绳 (zh) (jiāngshéng), 籠頭 / 笼头 (zh) (lóngtóu), 羈 / 羁 (zh) (jī)

• Czech: ohlávka f
• Dutch: halster (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: kolbrido
• Estonian: päitsed, päitserihm
• Finnish: riimu (fi), tallipäitset, päitset (fi)
• French: licou (fr) m, licol (fr) m, chevêtre (fr) m (archaic)
• Friulian: cjavece f, cjaviestri m
• Galician: trenla (gl) f, xácoma f, ronzal m, ramal m, cabresto m, cabezada f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Halfter (de) n
• Greek: καπίστρι (el) n (kapístri)

  Ancient Greek: φορβειά f (phorbeiá), στραγγάλη f (strangálē)

• Hebrew: אפסר (he) m (afsár)
• Hungarian: kötőfék (hu)
• Icelandic: múll (is) m
• Ido: haltero (io)
• Ingrian: varukset
• Irish: adhastar m
• Italian: capestro (it) m, cavezza f
• Japanese: 頭絡 (ja) (とうらく, tōraku), 鼻綱 (はなづな, hanazuna), 無口 (ja) (むくち, mukuchi)
• Jeju: 녹대 (nokdae)
• Kannada: ನೇಣು (kn) (nēṇu)
• Khalaj: afsâr
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: capistrum n
• Macedonian: оглав m (oglav), огламник m (oglamnik)
• Malayalam: കൊലക്കയർ (ml) (kolakkayaṟ)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: hāta
• Mongolian: ногт (mn) (nogt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grime m or f

  Nynorsk: grime f

• Occitan: capçana f, cabestre (oc) m
• Persian: پالهنگ (fa)
• Polish: kantar (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabresto (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਧਲਿਆਰਾ (dhaliārā)
• Romanian: căpăstru (ro) n
• Russian: узда́ (ru) f (uzdá), по́вод (ru) m (póvod), недоу́здок (ru) m (nedoúzdok)
• Scottish Gaelic: aghastar
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀ла̄р m

  Latin: ùlār (sh) m

• Spanish: cabestro (es) m
• Swedish: grimma (sv) c
• Telugu: పలుపు (te) (palupu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yular (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: یولار (yular), جلبور (cılbur), افسار (efsâr)

• Venetan: cavesa f, caveça f, cavezha f
• Vietnamese: dây (vi), thòng lọng (vi)
• Walloon: cabasson (wa) m
• Welsh: penffrwyn m, cebystr m
• Yakut: сулар (sular)

female garment — see halter top

Verb

halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)

1. (transitive) To place a halter on.

   What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

   • 1981, James Powell, chapter 8, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 62:

     The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse' were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.

Derived terms

• halter up

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

English halt

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English halter

From halt + -er.

Noun

halter (plural halters)

1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

Etymology 3

Noun

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere.

Anagrams

• relath, Hartel, lather, Hartle, thaler, Thaler, Thrale, rathel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [əlˈte̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [əlˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈteɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [alˈte]

Noun

halter m (plural halters)

1. dumbbell

Further reading

• “halter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French haltère or directly from Latin haltēres, from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑl.tər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: hal‧ter

Noun

halter m (plural halters, diminutive haltertje n)

1. (weightlifting) a dumbbell or barbell

   Hyponyms: dumbbell, barbell

Further reading

• halter on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Middle English

Alternative forms

• helter, heltre, heltere, helfter, heltyr, haltre, haltur, heltrer

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaltər/, /ˈhɛltər/, /ˈhaltrə/

Noun

halter (plural haltres)

1. A halter; horse headgear lacking a bit.
2. (rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.
3. (rare) The binding contract of marriage.

Descendants

• English: halter
• Scots: helter, heltir, hilter

References

• “halter, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 February 2019.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

halter

1. present tense of halte

Portuguese

Noun

halter m (plural halteres)

1. alternative form of haltere

Further reading

• “halter”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “halter”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Halter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxal.tɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -altɛr
• Syllabification: hal‧ter

Noun

halter m inan

1. holder (any object, usually oblong, used for holding any object)

Declension

Declension of halter

	singular	plural
nominative	halter	haltry
genitive	haltra	haltrōw
dative	haltrowi	haltrōm
accusative	halter	haltry
instrumental	haltrym	haltrami
locative	haltrze	haltrach
vocative	haltrze	haltry

Further reading

• halter in silling.org

Swedish

Noun

halter

1. indefinite plural of halt

Turkish

halter

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sel-

Proto-Indo-European *-yétor

Proto-Indo-European *sl̥yétor

Proto-Hellenic *həl͏̌l͏̌omai

Ancient Greek ᾰ̔́λλομαι (hắllomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Hellenic *-tḗr

Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)

Ancient Greek ᾰ̔λτῆρες (hăltêres)lbor.

French haltèrebor.

Turkish halter

Borrowed from French haltère, a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̔λτῆρες (hăltêres, “weights held in the hand to give an impetus in leaping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /halˈteɾ/
• Hyphenation: hal‧ter

Noun

halter (definite accusative halteri, plural halterler)

1. (weightlifting) barbell, dumbbell
2. weight

   halter kaldırmak ― to lift weights

Declension

Declension of halter

singular plural nominative halter halterler definite accusative halteri halterleri dative haltere halterlere locative halterde halterlerde ablative halterden halterlerden genitive halterin halterlerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular halterim halterlerim 2nd singular halterin halterlerin 3rd singular halteri halterleri 1st plural halterimiz halterlerimiz 2nd plural halteriniz halterleriniz 3rd plural halterleri halterleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular halterimi halterlerimi 2nd singular halterini halterlerini 3rd singular halterini halterlerini 1st plural halterimizi halterlerimizi 2nd plural halterinizi halterlerinizi 3rd plural halterlerini halterlerini dative singular plural 1st singular halterime halterlerime 2nd singular halterine halterlerine 3rd singular halterine halterlerine 1st plural halterimize halterlerimize 2nd plural halterinize halterlerinize 3rd plural halterlerine halterlerine locative singular plural 1st singular halterimde halterlerimde 2nd singular halterinde halterlerinde 3rd singular halterinde halterlerinde 1st plural halterimizde halterlerimizde 2nd plural halterinizde halterlerinizde 3rd plural halterlerinde halterlerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular halterimden halterlerimden 2nd singular halterinden halterlerinden 3rd singular halterinden halterlerinden 1st plural halterimizden halterlerimizden 2nd plural halterinizden halterlerinizden 3rd plural halterlerinden halterlerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular halterimin halterlerimin 2nd singular halterinin halterlerinin 3rd singular halterinin halterlerinin 1st plural halterimizin halterlerimizin 2nd plural halterinizin halterlerinizin 3rd plural halterlerinin halterlerinin Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular halterim halterlerim 2nd singular haltersin halterlersin 3rd singular halter halterdir halterler halterlerdir 1st plural halteriz halterleriz 2nd plural haltersiniz halterlersiniz 3rd plural halterler halterlerdir

Derived terms

• halterci

Further reading

• “halter”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “halter”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “halter”, in Nişanyan Sözlük