thought

English

Alternative forms

• thowt (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English þōht, ġeþōht (“process of thinking, thought; mind; a thought, idea, purpose; decree; compassion, viscera”) and geþeaht (“thought, consideration, counsel, advice, direction; design, contrivance, scheme; council, assembly”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] West Frisian oandacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thôt
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /θɔːt/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɔːt
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /θɔt/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /θɑt/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /θɒt/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

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Noun

thought (countable and uncountable, plural thoughts)

1. Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
2. (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
   • Paul Fix

     The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

3. A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

   "Eastern thought".

Derived terms

Terms derived from thought (noun)

• afterthought
• collect one's thoughts
• gather one's thoughts
• food for thought
• MTE (my thoughts exactly)
• netherthought

• on second thoughts
• penny for your thoughts
• perish the thought
• thoughtful
• thought leader

• thoughtless
• thought pattern
• thought shower
• thoughtlet
• thoughty
• twithought

Translations

form created in the mind

• Afrikaans: gedink
• Albanian: mendim (sq)
• Arabic: فِكْر (ar) m (fikr), فِكْرَة f (fikra)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: միտք (hy) (mitkʻ), գաղափար (hy) (gaġapʻar)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: pensamientu m
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: düşüncə (az)
• Belarusian: ду́мка (be) f (dúmka)
• Bengali: চিন্তা (cinta)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ми́съл (bg) f (mísǎl), иде́я (bg) f (idéja)
• Burmese: စိတ် (my) (cit), အကြံ (my) (a.kram)
• Catalan: pensament (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏁᎵᏍᎥ (nelisv)
• Chichewa: ganizo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 思想 (zh) (sīxiǎng), 思維／思维 (zh) (sīwéi), 思维 (zh) (sīwéi)

• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: myšlenka (cs) f
• Dalmatian: pinsamiant m
• Danish: tanke c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: gedachte (nl) f, idee (nl) n
• Esperanto: penso
• Estonian: mõte (et)
• Ewe: susu
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ajatus (fi), idea (fi)
• French: idée (fr) f, pensée (fr) f
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: pensamento (gl) m
• Georgian: აზრი (ka) (azri)
• German: Gedanke (de) m
• Greek: σκέψη (el) f (sképsi)

  Ancient: διαλογισμός m (dialogismós)

• Gujarati: વિચાર (vicār)
• Hausa: tunani
• Hawaiian: manaʻo
• Hebrew: מחשבה (he) f (makhshavá)
• Hindi: विचार (hi) (vicār)
• Hungarian: gondolat (hu)
• Icelandic: hugmynd (is) f
• Ido: penso (io)
• Igbo: echiche
• Indonesian: pikir (id), fikir (id), pikiran (id)
• Interlingua: pensata
• Interlingue:
• Irish: smaoineamh m
• Italian: idea (it) f
• Japanese: 考え (ja) (kangae), 意見 (ja) (iken), 考慮 (ja) (kōryo), 思考 (ja) (shikō), 思索 (ja) (shisaku), 意図 (ja) (ito)
• Javanese: panginten
• Kannada: ವಿಚಾರ (kn) (vicāra)
• Kazakh: ой (kk) (oi)
• Khmer: គំនិត (km) (kumnɨt)
• Korean: 생각 (ko) (saeng-gak)
• Kurdish: ,
• Kyrgyz: ой (ky) (oy)
• Lao: ຄວາມຄິດ (kʰwáːm kʰīt)
• Latgalian: guods m, dūms m, īguoda f
• Latin: idea, cōgitātiō f
• Latvian: doma f
• Lithuanian: mintis (lt) f
• Luganda: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Luxembourgish: Gedanken m, Iddi f, Virstellung f
• Macedonian: мисла f (mísla)
• Malay: fikiran
• Malayalam: ചിന്ത (ml) (cinta)
• Manx: smooinaght m
• Maori: huatau
• Marathi: विचार m (vicāra)
• Mirandese: pensamiento
• Mongolian: бодол (mn) (bodol)
• Nepali: सोचविचार (sōcavicāra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tanke (no) m, tenkning m or f

  Nynorsk: tanke m, tenking f

• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: ġehyġd n
• Old Saxon: githaht
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: فکر (fa) (fekr), ایده (fa)
• Polish: myśl (pl) f
• Portuguese: pensamento (pt) m, ideia (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸੋਚਿਆ (sōci'ā)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: gând (ro) n, cuget (ro) n
• Russian: мысль (ru) f (myslʹ), ду́ма (ru) f (dúma), иде́я (ru) f (idéja)
• Scots: thocht, idea
• Scottish Gaelic: beachd m, dùil f, smaoin f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мисао f

  Roman: misao (sh) f

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: කල්පනා (kalpanā)
• Slovak: myšlienka (sk) f
• Slovene: misel (sl) f
• Somali: fikrad
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mysl f

• Spanish: pensamiento (es) m
• Swahili: dhana (sw), wazo (sw) class 5/6
• Swedish: tanke (sv)
• Tagalog: pag-iisip
• Tajik: фикр (tg) (fikr)
• Tamil: எண்ணம் (ta) (eṇṇam)
• Telugu: ఆలోచన (te) (ālōcana), తలపు (te) (talapu)
• Thai: ความคิด (th) (kwaam-kít)
• Tok Pisin: tingting
• Turkish: düşünce (tr)
• Turkmen: pikir, oý
• Ukrainian: ду́мка (uk) f (dúmka)
• Urdu: وچار (vicār)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: fikr (uz), o'y (uz), xayol (uz)
• Vietnamese: tư duy (vi)
• Volapük: tikod (vo), (collective) tikodem
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: meddwl (cy)
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yagnobi: фикр (fikr)
• Yiddish: געדאַנק (gedank)
• Yoruba: ero
• Zazaki: fikr
• Zulu: umcabango (zu)

process

• Arabic: فِكْر (ar) m (fikr), تَفْكِير m (tafkīr)
• Armenian: մտորում (hy) (mtorum), մտածմունք (hy) (mtacmunkʻ)
• Asturian: pensamientu m
• Bulgarian: размисъл (bg) m (razmisǎl)
• Catalan: pensament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 思考 (zh) (sīkǎo), 考慮／考虑 (zh) (kǎolǜ), 考虑 (zh) (kǎolǜ)

• Czech: myšlení (cs) n
• Danish: tankevirksomhed c
• Esperanto: penseco, pensado
• Ewe: susu, tamebubu
• Finnish: ajattelu (fi)
• French: pensée (fr) f
• Galician: pensamento (gl) m
• Georgian: ფიქრი (pikri), აზროვნება (azrovneba)
• Greek: σκέψη (el) f (sképsi)
• Hebrew: מחשבות f pl (makhshavót)
• Hindi: विचार (hi) m (vichaar)
• Hungarian: gondolkodás (hu)
• Icelandic: hugsun (is) f
• Italian: pensiero (it) m
• Japanese: 考慮 (ja) (kōryo), 思考 (ja) (shikō), 思考力 (shikōryoku), 思索 (ja) (shisaku), 考え (ja) (kangae)
• Latin: cogitatio f, putatio f
• Latvian: domāšana f
• Lithuanian: mąstymas (lt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: мисла f (mísla), мислење n (míslenje)
• Malay: pemikiran
• Malayalam: ചിന്ത (ml) (cinta), ആലോചന (ml) (ālōcana)
• Marathi: विचार n (vicāra)
• Meru: mathuganio
• Mirandese: pensamiento
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tanke (no) m, tenkning m or f

  Nynorsk: tanke m, tenking f

• Old English: ġehyġd n
• Persian: اندیشه (fa) (andishe), فِکر (fa), تفکر (fa)
• Polish: myśl (pl) f, pomysł (pl) m
• Portuguese: pensamento (pt) m
• Romanian: gândire (ro) f, cugetare (ro) f
• Russian: мысль (ru) f (myslʹ), мышле́ние (ru) n (myšlénije), рассужде́ние (ru) n (rassuždénije), размышле́ние (ru) n (razmyšlénije)
• Sicilian: pinzeri (scn) m
• Spanish: pensamiento (es) m
• Swahili: dhana (sw), fikira (sw), gezo (sw)
• Swedish: tanke (sv), fundering (sv)
• Tajik: фикр (tg) (fikr), тафаккур (tafakkur)
• Tocharian A: mem
• Tocharian B: maim
• Turkish: düşünüş (tr), düşünme (tr)
• ǃXóõ: ǂʻán

way of thinking

• Finnish: ajattelu, ajatustapa
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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Albanian: ^{(please verify)} mendim m
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} فِكْرَة f (fikra)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} soñj m
• (deprecated template usage) Catalan: ^{(please verify)} pensament m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} penso
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} penso, ^{(please verify)} pensajo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Korean: ^{(please verify)} 생각 (saenggak) (saenggak)
• (deprecated template usage) Mandarin: 想法 (xiǎngfǎ), 意见 (yìjiàn), 思想 (sīxiǎng), 思维能力 (sīwéi nénglì), 关心 (guānxīn), 顾虑 (gùlǜ)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} gând, ^{(please verify)} gandire
• (deprecated template usage) Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} misao f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pensamiento m

Verb

thought

1. simple past and past participle of think