big toe

English

Etymology

From big +‎ toe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

big toe (plural big toes)

2. (anatomy) The largest toe (usually) on each human foot (i.e. the toe closest to the other foot when the feet are flat on the ground, side by side, and the legs not crossed) or on a foot of certain other animals.

   Synonyms: (dated) great toe, hallux, large toe

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big,‎ toe.
   • 2017 March 15, Valli Herman, “9 ways to give your running gear a spring makeover”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2017:

     Our SoCal fave? Bigfoot toting a surfboard to hang 10 very big toes.

Derived terms

• big toenail

Translations

largest of the toes of the foot of a human

Afrikaans: groottoon Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ոտքի բթամատ (otkʻi btʻamat), պպի (hy) (ppi) (dialectal) Aromanian: pilicar n Bashkir: баш бармаҡ (baş barmaq) Catalan: hàl·lux (ca) m Chichewa: mphatakala class 9 Chinese: Cantonese: 腳趾公 / 脚趾公 (goek3 zi2 gung1) Hakka: 腳趾公 / 脚趾公 (kiok-chṳ́-kûng, kiok-chí-kûng) Mandarin: 大腳趾 / 大脚趾 (dàjiǎozhǐ), 拇指 (zh) (mǔzhǐ), 拇趾 (zh) (mǔzhǐ), 大趾 (dàzhǐ) Czech: palec (cs) m Danish: storetå Dieri: thidna ngandri Dutch: grote teen m Esperanto: halukso (eo) Finnish: isovarvas (fi), pottuvarvas (fi), ukkovarvas (fi), peukalovarvas (fi) French: gros orteil (fr), pouce du pied m, hallux (fr) m (anatomy) German: große Zehe f, großer Zeh m Greek: μεγάλο δάκτυλο του ποδιού n (megálo dáktylo tou podioú) Greenlandic: putugoq Hindi: अंगूठा m (aṅgūṭhā) Hungarian: nagy lábujj (hu) Icelandic: stóra tá f, stóra táin f Ido: haluxo (io) Irish: ordóg (ga) f, ordóg coise f Italian: alluce (it) Kazakh: бақай (baqai) Khiamniungan Naga: hōkkhònyù Khmer: មេជើង (meicəəng) Korean: 엄지발가락 (eomjibalgarak) Latin: hallus, pollex (pedis) m Lithuanian: nykštys, didysis pirštas m Luxembourgish: déck Zéif f Malay: ibu jari kaki, empu kaki Maori: kōnui Mongolian: эрхий (mn) (erxii) Navajo: akétsoh Norwegian: Bokmål: stortå m or f Nynorsk: stortå f Pitjantjatjara: tjina mama Polish: paluch (pl) m Portuguese: hálux (pt) m, dedão do pé m Romanian: degetul mare de la picior n Russian: большо́й па́лец (ru) m (bolʹšój pálec) Scots: tae Scottish Gaelic: òrdag mhòr f, òrdag f Serbo-Croatian: nožni palac m Sicilian: jitu buzzeri Slovak: palec m, palec na nohe m Spanish: dedo gordo del pie m, ortejo mayor m (Chile), hallux m (anatomy, medicine) Swedish: stortå (sv) c Thai: หัวแม่เท้า (hŭa mâe táo) Tonkawa: na·tankwa·low Turkish: ayak başparmağı Woiwurrung: bababi-djinang Xhosa: ubhontsi class 1a/2a

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