Mahout

//məˈhaʊt//

Synonyms for "mahout" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (6)

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Translations

67 translations across 42 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • سَائِسُ فِيل noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Assamese

1 entries
  • মাউত noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Basque

1 entries
  • mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Bengali

1 entries
  • মাহুত noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Burmese

2 entries
  • ဆင်ဦးစီး noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • ယရည်း noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Catalan

3 entries
  • cornac noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • muntar elefants verb (to drive (an elephant or elephants))
  • muntar elefants verb (to drive elephants)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • فیلەوان noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 象夫 noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • 象奴 noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Danish

4 entries
  • elefantdriver noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • elefantfører noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • mahut noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Estonian

1 entries
  • elevandijuht noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Finnish

3 entries
  • norsunajaja noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • ajaa norsua verb (to drive (an elephant or elephants))
  • ajaa norsuja verb (to drive elephants)

French

2 entries
  • cornac noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Galician

1 entries
  • cornaca noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

German

4 entries
  • Elefantentreiber noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • Mahaut noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • Mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • Mahut noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • פַּיָּל noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Hindi

3 entries
  • महाउत noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • महावत noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • महौत noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • elefánthajcsár noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Kamta

1 entries
  • মাহুত noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Khmer

3 entries
  • ទ្រមាក់ noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • ហត្ថិគោបកៈ noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • ហ្មដំរី noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Korean

1 entries
  • 머하웃 noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • mahoutas noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • ма́хаут noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Malayalam

2 entries
  • ആനപ്പാപ്പാൻ noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • പാപ്പാൻ noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Middle Vietnamese

1 entries
  • quan voi noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • fîlvan noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • elefantfører noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Old Gujarati

1 entries
  • पुंतार noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • فیلجی noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Persian

1 entries
  • فیلبان noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Polish

1 entries
  • kornak noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • cornaca noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Punjabi

1 entries
  • ਮਹੌਤ noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Romanian

1 entries
  • cornac noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Russian

2 entries
  • махау́т noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • пого́нщик слоно́в noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Spanish

2 entries
  • cornaca noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Swedish

1 entries
  • mahout noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Tamil

2 entries
  • பணிக்கன் noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • யானைப்பாகன் noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Telugu

2 entries
  • గజారోహుడు noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • మావటి noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Thai

2 entries
  • ควาญ noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • ควาญช้าง noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Urdu

2 entries
  • مَہاوَت noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • مَہَوت noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • nài noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)
  • quản tượng noun (elephant trainer, keeper, and driver)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The pachyderms took part in the King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament. Fifty-one of the competitors were teenage females. Each weighed about three tons. They carried a player, who gives directions, and a mahout, who helps to guide the animal. The owners of the elephants lent them to corporations which finance the teams.

Source: tatoeba (12292678)

The Serrievvan hath the overſight of the Camels, and the Mahout, that of the Elephants.

Source: wiktionary

The very best of all the elephants belonged to the very worst of all the drivers or mahouts; and the superior beast's name was Moti Guj. He was the absolute property of his mahout, which would never have been the case under native rule, for Moti Guj was a creature to be desired by kings; and his name, being translated, meant the Pearl Elephant.

Source: wiktionary

[I]n a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory. They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.