dachshund

See also: Dachshund

English

A dachshund

Alternative forms

• dachshunde (from the German plural)
• dachshound
• dashhound (spelling from a nonstandard pronunciation)

Etymology

From German Dachshund (“badger dog”); Dachs (“badger”) +‎ Hund (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːksˌhʊnd/, /ˈdæksˌhʊnd/, /ˈdæk.sənd/

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• (General American) enPR: däksʹ-ho͝ont', dăksʹ-ho͝ond', IPA^(key): /ˈdɑksˌhʊnt/, /ˈdæksˌhʊnd/, /ˈdɑk.sənd/
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈdæʃ.h(a)ʊnd/, /ˈdæʃ.ənd/
• Rhymes: -ækshʊnd, -æksənd, -ɑːkshʊnt, -ɑːksənd, -æʃhaʊnd, -æʃhʊnd, -æʃənd

Noun

dachshund (plural dachshunds or dachshunde)

1. A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

   Synonyms: badger dog, doxy, sausage dog, wiener dog

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     Say what you will of dachshunds, their peculiar shape makes them the easiest breed of dog to trip over in existence.

   • 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 35:

     We had decided to take a small dog for the children and we chose a tan, short-haired, six-week-old male dachshund. We named him Fritz.

Translations

breed of dog

• Belarusian: та́кса f (táksa)
• Bulgarian: да́кел (bg) m (dákel)
• Catalan: teckel m, dachshund m, dackel m
• Chickasaw: ofi' falaa'
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臘腸犬／腊肠犬 (làcháng quǎn), 達克斯獵犬／达克斯猎犬 (dákèsīlièquǎn)

• Cornish: broghki m
• Czech: jezevčík (cs) m
• Danish: gravhund c
• Dutch: teckel (nl) m, dashond (nl) m
• Esperanto: melhundo, kolbasohundo (informal)
• Finnish: mäyräkoira (fi)
• French: teckel (fr) m
• Galician: teckel m, dachshund m
• Georgian: ტაქსა (ṭaksa)
• German: Dackel (de) m, Teckel m (dated or specialist also), Dachshund (de) m (archaic also)
• Hebrew: תחש \ תַּחַשׁ (he) m (tákhash), דקל \ דָּקֶל (he) m (dákel)
• Hungarian: tacskó (hu), dakszli (hu)
• Irish: broc-chú m
• Italian: bassotto (it) m
• Japanese: ダックスフント (ja) (dakkusufundo)
• Kashubian: jôpscownik m
• Kazakh: такса (taksa)
• Korean: 닥스훈트 (dakseuhunteu)
• Latvian: taksis m
• Lithuanian: taksas m
• Malayalam: ഡാഷ്ഹണ്ട് (ḍāṣhaṇṭŭ)
• Manx: coo brock m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dachs m, daks m, dachshund (no) m, dakshund m, grevlinghund m, pølsehund m, ovnsrørhund m

  Nynorsk: dachs m, daks m, dachshund m, dakshund m, grevlinghund m, pølsehund m, omnsrørhund m, omnsrøyrhund m

• Plautdietsch: Dakshunt m
• Polish: jamnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: dachshund m or f, bassê (pt) m or f, salsichinha m or f (informal)
• Romanian: teckel m
• Russian: та́кса (ru) m (táksa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јазавичар m

  Roman: jazavičar m

• Silesian: dakel m
• Slovak: jazvečík m
• Slovene: jazbečar (sl)
• Spanish: perro salchicha m
• Swedish: tax (sv) c
• Tatar: такса (taqsa)
• Thai: แด็กซันด์ (dàek-san)
• Turkish: dakhund (tr)
• Ukrainian: та́кса f (táksa)
• Volapük: dafadog (vo)
• Welsh: brochgi m
• Yiddish: דאַכסהונט m (dakhshunt), טאַקסע f (takse)

See also

• chondrodystrophic
• degenerative disc disease
• dwarf

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /dakˈsũ.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /dakˈsũ.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /dakˈsũ.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /daˈksũ.dɨ/

Noun

dachshund m or f by sense (plural dachshunds)

1. dachshund (a breed of dog)

   Synonym: bassê

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daxsˈxunt/ [d̪axsˈxũn̪t̪]
  • Rhymes: -unt
• IPA^(key): /daxsˈxund/ [d̪axsˈxũn̪d̪]
  • Rhymes: -und
• IPA^(key): /daxˈsund/ [d̪axˈsũn̪d̪]
  • Rhymes: -und
• IPA^(key): /daxˈsunt/ [d̪axˈsũn̪t̪]
  • Rhymes: -unt
• Syllabification: dach‧shund

Noun

dachshund m (plural dachshunds)

1. dachshund