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hit

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hittite.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hittite terms

• (UK, US, Canada, Australia) IPA^(key): /hɪt/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /hət/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).

(something very successful): Compare typologically striking, Russian порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) (<~ порази́ть (porazítʹ) <~ рази́ть (razítʹ)).

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

1. (heading, physical) To strike.
   1. (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

      One boy hit the other.

      • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

        Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

      • 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves:

        He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.

      • 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[[Episode 15]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

        Bello: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
        Bello: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell […]

      • 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game:

        I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.

   2. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

      The ball hit the fence.

      • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):

        a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.

      • 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance:

        Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.

   3. (intransitive) To strike against something.

      I can't get anything to hit at that distance.

   4. (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

      Hit the Enter key to continue.

   5. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

      Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.

      • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)

        FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.

   6. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.

      If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.

   7. (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

      Their coffee really hits the spot.

      I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.

2. (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

   Antonym: miss

   I hit the jackpot.

   You can't hit the high notes in that song!

3. (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).

   Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!

4. (transitive, music, informal) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To commence playing.

   - I'd love to hear your band play.
   - Hit it, boys!

5. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.

   We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.

6. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

   You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.

   We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.

7. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
   1. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.

      The movie hits theaters in December.

      The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.

      We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.

      • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:

        As soon as we hit Jazzafrazz Town, we were overcome by the glitz and the glamour.

      • 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, in Guardian Unlimited‎^[1]:

        And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

   2. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
      • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

      • 1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–2:

        All Human Race wou’d fain be Wits, / And Millions miſs, for one that hits.

   3. To guess; to light upon or discover.
      • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        Thou hast hit it.

      • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:

        And we shall sit at endless feast,
        ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good;
        ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood
        Of Love on earth?

8. (transitive) To affect negatively.

   The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.

9. (figuratively) To attack.
   • 2016 March 3, Nick Gass, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump on small hands: 'I guarantee you there's no problem'”, in Politico‎^[2]:

     I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?

10. (heading, games) To make a play.
    1. (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.

       Hit me.

    2. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.

       Jones hit for the pitcher.

    3. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
11. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.

    The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.

12. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.

    I'd hit that!

13. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
    • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎^[3], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

      Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.

    • 2020, DubbyD, im hitting my dmt cart right now‎^[4], spoken by CSGO player Loc T Nguyen:

      I'm hitting my DMT cart right now. Hold up, hold on nigga. I'm hittin' it not enough to break through though. Oh my God! Oh my God nigga uhhh. I'm- ohhh my God, dude! Ohhh, ahhh! Oh my God! Holy fuck! Oh my God! Oohhh. Oohhh! God! Oh my God! Ahhh! Fuck, I'm breaking through bro. Ohh!

14. (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

    This is another great exercise which hits the long head.

15. (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.

    With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.

• (administer a blow): beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
• (kill a person): bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (attack): beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
• (have sex with): bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (smoke marijuana): smoke up, toke
• (work out): hit the gym

• (antonym(s) of “manage to touch in the right place”): miss

hit (plural hits)

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.

   The hit was very slight.

3. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
   • 1848, “Her Majesty's Theatre”, in The Musical World‎^[5], volume 23:

     Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season […]

   • 2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[6], archived from the original on 4 June 2012:

     Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.

4. (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.

   His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.

5. An attack on a location, person or people.
6. A collision of a projectile with the target.
   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

     But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

   1. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
7. (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
8. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

   My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

9. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
10. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

    The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

11. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    Where am I going to get my next hit?

12. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
    • 2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times‎^[7], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 January 2026:

      The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered.

13. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    a happy hit

    • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

      What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit.

14. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
15. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

• (antonym(s) of “a punch”): miss
• (antonym(s) of “success”): flop, turkey

hit (not comparable)

1. Very successful.

   The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it; also note 'it.

hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

1. (dialectal) It.
   • 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, volume 130:

     But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

   • 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:

     Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.

• hits
• hitself

• “hit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “hit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Thi, iht, ith, thi-

• hüt, hüüd (Uri)

From Old High German hiutu, from hiu +‎ tagu, a calque of Latin hodie. Cognate with German heute, Dutch heden.

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

hit

1. (Alsace) today

   Hit isch dr Jean-Pierre so drüri. ― Jean-Pierre is so sad today.

From English hit.

• IPA^(key): /hit/^[1]

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

   Synonym: èxit

   • 2020 February 6, Time Out Barcelona‎^[8], volume 583, page 8, column Sèries:

     Us passareu els capítols amb el Shazam obert buscant els hits que sonen.

     You'll spend the episodes with Shazam open, searching for the hits that play.

From Pre-Chamorro *(xi)ta, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.

• IPA^(key): /hit/

hit

1. we, us (inclusive)

• hit is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while ta is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
• In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, hit can be used as a subject.

• Donald M. Topping (1973), Chamorro Reference Grammar‎^[9], Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press

From English hit.

hit

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) hit; popular; hot

Borrowed from English hit.

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

• Audio:

  (file)

hit m inan

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: šlágr

• “hit”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “hit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “hit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From English hit.

• IPA^(key): /hit/, [ˈhid̥]

hit n (singular definite hittet, plural indefinite hit or hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

• “hit” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ɦɪt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: hit
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Borrowed from English hit.

hit m (plural hits, diminutive hitje n)

1. a hit song, a very popular and successful song
2. (by extension) a success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry)

• feesthit
• kersthit
• zomerhit

Shortening of Hitlander (“Shetlander”).

hit m (plural hitten, diminutive hitje n or hitske n)

1. (dated) a Shetland pony
2. (dated, regional) any pony or small horse

• daghit

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (popular song)
2. hit (success)

For pronunciation and definitions of hit – see 彼 (“that; those; he; she; it; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 彼).

From the stem of hisz (“to believe”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhit]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it

hit (plural hitek)

1. faith, belief
2. (archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)

• hit in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• it (dialectal spelling)
  • i (dialectal pronunciation spelling)

From Jamaican Creole it, from English it

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

hit n

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kʰetʰ (“person”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /hit/

hit (plural c̔eäŋ)

1. man, person

• Matthias Alexander Castrén, Versuch Einer Jenissei-Ostjakischen Und Kottischen Sprachlehre: Nebst Aus Den Genannten Sprachen, St. Petersburg: Leopold Voss Publisher, 1858, page 210
• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 420-421
• Werner, Heinrich K. (2003), Röhrborn, Klaus, Schellbach-Kopra, Ingrid, editors, M. A. Castrén und die Jenissejistik: Die Jennisej-Sprachen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Veröffentlichungen des Societas Uralo-Altaica; 62) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 144

• Hit (german-based spelling)
  • Hétt (Eupen)

From Dutch hit, from English hit.

hit f

1. (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)

Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	hit	hits	hitje	hitjes
Genitive	hit	hits	hitjes	hitjes
Locative	hittes	hitteser	hitteske	hitteskes
Dative¹²	—	—	—	—
Accusative¹²	—	—	—	—

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
• The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

hit

1. alternative form of het

From Old English hit, from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”).

• hitt, hitte, hyt, hytte, it, itt, itte, jt, yt, ytt

• IPA^(key): /hit/, /it/

hit (accusative hit, genitive hit, his, possessive determiner hit, his)

2. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
   1. Sometimes used in reference to a child: he, she
3. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
4. Third-person singular neuter reflexive pronoun: itself
5. Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
6. (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it
   • c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 4, recto, lines 3-4; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎^[10], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 6:

     Hit bi fel in þat foreſt · þere faſt by ſide / þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherde

     It so happened that right there in that forest / there was a very old peasant; a cowherd.

• English: it

  Appalachia: hit

  Ottawa Valley: et

• Scots: hid
• Yola: it, yt, t' (misspelling)

• “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

hit (nominative pronoun hit)

1. Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it

• “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

hit

1. (County Durham, Early Scots) alternative form of hitten

From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

hit

1. here (to this place), hither

   Kom hit!

   Come here!

• “hit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.

hit

1. here (to this place), hither

   Kom hit!

   Come here!

From Old Norse hít. Compare Faroese hít (“condom”).

hit f (definite singular hita, indefinite plural hiter, definite plural hitene)

1. a leather bag (usually made from a hide in a single piece)
2. (dialectal, derogatory) used of a woman, especially in compounds

• mjølhit

• “hit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “hit”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.

From Proto-Germanic *hit.

hit

1. it

• it

• Middle Dutch: het
  • Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
  • Limburgish: hèt

• “hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• hitt
• hib

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, “it”). More at hē.

• IPA^(key): /xit/, [hit]
• Rhymes: -it

hit n (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)

1. it
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Þēah þe græf wille golde strēġan brōþor his ġeborenum, byrġan be dēadum, māþmum mislīċum þæt hine mid wille, ne mæġ þǣre sāwle þe biþ synna ful gold tō ġēoce for godes eġsan, þonne hē hit ǣr hȳdeð þenden hē hēr leofað.

     Even if a brother would like to strew gold on grave for his kinsmen, to bury next to the dead with manifold riches that he would like to have with him, gold cannot be a help for this soul, who is full of sins, before the dread of God, after he first hides it while he lives here.

• Middle English: hit, hitt, hitte, hyt, hytte, it, itt, itte, jt, yt, ytt
  • English: it

    Appalachia: hit

    Ottawa Valley: et

  • Scots: hid
  • Yola: it, yt, t' (misspelling)

• et

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old English hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, “it”).

hit n (accusative hit, genitive sīn, dative him)

1. it

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: at

  Mooring, Sylt: et, 't

• Saterland Frisian: et
• West Frisian: it

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hit

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of hinn

• Icelandic: hið
• Elfdalian: eð

From Proto-Celtic *siti- (“length”).

hit

1. until

• Middle Welsh: hyt
  • Welsh: hyd

Borrowed from English hit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxit/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: hit

hit m inan (related adjective hitowy)

1. (music) hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

• “hit”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[11] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “hit”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[12] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English hit.

• Homophone: (Brazil) hite

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: êxito

• hitar

• “hit”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from English hit.

hit n (plural hituri)

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

• IPA^(key): /xît/
• Hyphenation: hit

hȉt f (Cyrillic spelling хи̏т)

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

• “hit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “hit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Matea Birtić et al. (2012), “hit”, in Školski rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [School Dictionary of the Croatian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [Institute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics]; Školska knjiga

Unadapted borrowing from English hit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxit/ [ˈxit̪]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: hit

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success)

   Synonym: éxito

2. (baseball) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “hit”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “hit”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

From Old Swedish hit, from *hī+at.

• hī, from Proto-Indo-European *kei- (as in Ancient Greek ἐκεῖ (ekeî))
• at, from Proto-Germanic *at, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (as in Swedish åt)

Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

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• Homophone: heat

hit (not comparable)

1. to here, hither, (often in practice, in translations) here

   Antonym: dit (“to there, thither”)

   Kom hit!

   Come [to] here!

   Hon kom hit, så nu är hon här

   She came [to] here, so now she is here

   Hon kom här [for comparison]

   She came at this location [odd-sounding]

   Jag kom hit igår

   I came [to] here yesterday

   springa hit och dit

   run to here and to there / run hither and thither [indicating for example chaos or a lack of direction]

• här (“here, as a location”)
• hitåt (“towards here, this way”)
• hit och dit

From English hit.

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

hit c

1. (informal) a hit (popular song, or some other popular or successful thing)

• turkhit

• “hit”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hit”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “hit”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Borrowed from English hit.

hit (definite accusative hidi, plural hitler)

1. (music) hit

Borrowed from English heat. Compare German Hitze.

• IPA^(key): /hit/

hit (genitive hita, plural hits)

1. heat, warmth

• hitüp (“summer”)