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Don Quixote
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English
+,Alonso Quijano
thumb|250px|upright|Don Quixote of La Mancha and Sancho Panza, by Gustave Doré, 1863
Etymology
Borrowed from en es Don Quixote, the older spelling of modern es Don Quijote.
Pronunciation
en /ˌdɒn kiːˈhəʊtɪ/ /dɒn ˈkwɪksəʊt/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Don Quixote.wav Southern England
en /ˌdɑn kiˈhoʊti/ /ˌdɑn kiˈhoʊteɪ/ US
en əʊti 4
Proper noun
Don Quixote
A famous 1605–1615 Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), whose full title is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha).
The en protagonist of this novel.
Derived terms
en Don Quixotesque Don Quixotic quixotic
Translations
a famous Spanish novel
Spanish: es Quijote el Quijote m
the protagonist of a famous Spanish novel
Albanian: sq Don Kishoti m
Arabic: ar دُون كِيشُوت m, ar دُون كِيخُوتِي m
Aragonese: an Don Quixot m
Armenian: hy Դոն Քիշոտ, hy Դոն Կիխոտ
Asturian: ast Don Quixote m
Azerbaijani: az Don Kixot
Basque: eu On Kixote m
Belarusian: be Дон Кіхо́т m
Bengali: bn ডন কিহোতে
Breton: br Don Quijote m
Bulgarian: bg Дон Кихо́т m
Catalan: ca Don Quixot m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 唐吉訶德 tong4 gat1 ho1 dak1, yue 吉訶德大人 gat1 ho1 dak1 daai6 jan4
Hokkien: nan-hbl Don Quixote
Mandarin: cmn 堂吉訶德 Táng Jíhēdé, cmn 吉訶德大人 Jíhēdé-dàrén
Czech: cs Don Quijote m
Dutch: nl Don Quichot m
Esperanto: eo Donkiĥoto
Finnish: fi Don Quijote
French: fr Don Quichotte m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Don Quichot m
Galician: gl Don Quixote m
Georgian: ka დონ კიხოტი
German: de Don Quichotte m, less often de Don Quixote, de Don Quijote
Bavarian: bar Don Quijote m
Greek: el Δον Κιχώτης m
Hebrew: he דוֹן קִישׁוֹט m Don Kishót, he דוֹן קִיחוֹטֶה m Don Kikhóteh
Hungarian: hu Don Quijote
Icelandic: is Don Kíkóti m
Indonesian: id Don Kisot, id Don Kihote
Italian: it Don Chisciotte m
Japanese: ja ドン・キホーテ Don Kihōte
Korean: ko ^돈 ^키호테
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Don Kîşot
Latin: la Dominus Quixotus m
Latvian: lv Dons Kihots m
Lithuanian: lt Don Kichotas m
Macedonian: mk Дон Ки́хот m
Malayalam: ml ഡോൺ ക്വിൿസോട്ട്
Marathi: mr डॉन क्विक्झोट m, mr दॉन किहोते m
Newar: new दन किहोते
Occitan: oc Don Quichòte m
Persian: fa دن کیشوت don kišot
Polish: pl Don Kichot m, pl Donkiszot m
Portuguese: pt Dom Quixote m
Punjabi: pa ਦੌਨ ਕੀਹੋਤੇ m
Romanian: ro Don Quijote m
Russian: ru Дон Кихо́т m
Sicilian: scn Don Chisciotti m
Slovene: sl Don Kihot m
Spanish: es Don Quijote m, es Don Quixote m
Swedish: sv Don Quijote c
Tamil: ta டான் குய்க்ஸோட்
Thai: th ดอนกิโฆเต้ Don Gì-koh-dtây
Tibetan: bo ཐང་རྗི་ཁོཏ
Turkish: tr Don Kişot
Turkmen: tk Don Kihot
Ukrainian: uk Дон Кіхо́т m
Urdu: ur ڈان کے خوتے m ḍān ke-hote
Venetan: vec Don Chissote m
Vietnamese: vi Đôn Ki-hô-tê, vi Đông Ki-sốt
Welsh: cy Don Quixote m, cy Don Cwicsot m
Yiddish: yi דאָן קיכאָטע m
Noun
Don Quixote
en also attributive Any person or character who displays en quixotism.
But he was a born leader. As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.
en 2012 Claire B. Gunnels; Susan E. Green; Patricia M. Butler Joint Libraries: Models That Work 161 while joint libraries are wonderful endeavors, which may or may not be a part of our future, they also represent the best of human cooperation for the greater good. This book is dedicated to these Don Quixotes of the library world.
Derived terms
en Quixote quixotic quixotism quixotry
en People Books Fictional characters
Asturian
Etymology
ast es Don Quixote, the older spelling of modern es Don Quijote.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m Don Quixote
en Don Quixote the protagonist of a famous Spanish novel
ast Fiction
German
Pronunciation
de /ˌdɔn kiˈʃɔt(ə)/
de De-Don Quixote.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
Don Quixote m,s:-[with an article]
de Don Quichotte
Spanish
Etymology
From es Quixano (modern es Quijano), his actual surname, + es -ote.
Proper noun
m
es Don Quijote ; the original spelling