hashtag

See also: Hashtag

English

Etymology

From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) +‎ tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, enPR: hăsh'tăg

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

hashtag (plural hashtags)

2. (Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content. [from 2007]
   • 2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552

     I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter

   • 2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets:

     You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.

   • 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:

     While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

   • 2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:

     The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.

4. (Internet, metonymically, informal) The hash sign itself, when used as part of a hashtag.
   • 2016, Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.

   • 2018, John Allison, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, →ISBN, page n.p.:

     You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.

   • 2024 July 31, Heather Schwedel, Is J.D. Vance Wearing Eyeliner?‎^[4]:

     The Occam’s razor explanation is that he’s just hashtag-blessed with the kind of lustrous lashes that many people spend a lot of money (and rack up a lot of Sephora Beauty Insider points) trying to get.

Derived terms

• bashtag
• cashtag
• hashtivism

Descendants

• → German: Hashtag
• → Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)
• → Polish: hashtag
• → Russian: хеште́г (xɛštɛ́g)
• → Ukrainian: геште́ґ (heštég)

Translations

a tag with a hash sign

• Afrikaans: hutsmerk (af)
• Arabic: وَسْم m (wasm), هَاشْتَاق m (hāštāq), هَاشْتَاغ m (hāštāḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: هاشْتاق m (haštāg)

• Armenian: հեշթեգ (heštʻeg)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 井號標籤／井号标签 (jǐnghào biāoqiān)

• Czech: hashtag (cs) m, heštek m (humble, rare)
• Danish: hashtag n
• Dutch: hashtag (nl) m
• Esperanto: kradvorto
• Estonian: hashtag (et), räsimärk, teemaviide
• Finnish: aihetunniste (fi), hashtag (fi), hästäkki
• French: mot-clic (fr) m, mot-dièse (fr) m, hashtag (fr) m
• Galician: cancelo (gl) n
• Georgian: ჰეშტეგი (hešṭegi), ჰეშთეგი (heštegi)
• German: Hashtag (de) n
• Hungarian: hashtag (hu)
• Icelandic: myllumerki n, kassamerki n
• Indonesian: tagar (id), tanda pagar
• Italian: hashtag (it) m
• Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)
• Korean: 해시태그 (haesitaegeu)
• Malay: tanda pagar
• Maori: tohumarau
• Occitan: etiqueta (oc) f
• Persian: هشتگ (haštag)
• Polish: hashtag (pl) m, hasztag m
• Portuguese: marcador (pt) f, hashtag (pt) m or f
• Russian: ме́тка (ru) f (métka), хэште́г (ru) m (xɛštɛ́g), хеште́г (ru) m (xɛštɛ́g)
• Slovak: hashtag m
• Spanish: hashtag m, etiqueta (es) f
• Swedish: hashtag (sv)
• Thai: แฮชแท็ก (hɛ́ch-tɛ̀k)
• Turkish: etiket (tr)
• Ukrainian: геште́ґ m (heštég), хеште́г m (xeštéh)
• Welsh: hashnod (cy) m

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Verb

hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.
   • 2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post‎^[5]:

     The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo. Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.”

Derived terms

• hashtaggable
• hashtagger

Further reading

• hashtag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

Noun

hashtag

1. (Internet) hashtag

Declension

Declension of hashtag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hashtag	hashtagget	hashtags	hashtaggene
genitive	hashtags	hashtaggets	hashtags'	hashtagsenes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʃ.taɡ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag

   Synonyms: mot-clic, mot-dièse

Derived terms

• hashtaguer

Related terms

• croisillon

Further reading

• “hashtag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

From English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛʃtɛɡ]
• Hyphenation: hash‧tag

Noun

hashtag (plural hashtagek)

1. (Internet) hashtag
   • 2013 August 18, Dia Sákovics, “Miért osztjuk meg a neten a vacsoránk?”, in Origo‎^[6], retrieved 2015-02-06:

     Az Instragramon több mint 40 millió fotó található a food hashtag alatt […]

     There are more than 40 million photos under the food hashtag on Instagram […]

   • 2014 October 2, “Nyolc magyar a legnagyobb újítók között”, in Origo‎^[7], retrieved 2015-02-06:

     A New Europe 100-as listára bárki jelölhetett embereket a honlapon adott ajánlással vagy Twitteren a #NE100 hashtag használatával.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hashtag	hashtagek
accusative	hashtaget	hashtageket
dative	hashtagnek	hashtageknek
instrumental	hashtaggel	hashtagekkel
causal-final	hashtagért	hashtagekért
translative	hashtaggé	hashtagekké
terminative	hashtagig	hashtagekig
essive-formal	hashtagként	hashtagekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hashtagben	hashtagekben
superessive	hashtagen	hashtageken
adessive	hashtagnél	hashtageknél
illative	hashtagbe	hashtagekbe
sublative	hashtagre	hashtagekre
allative	hashtaghez	hashtagekhez
elative	hashtagből	hashtagekből
delative	hashtagről	hashtagekről
ablative	hashtagtől	hashtagektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	hashtagé	hashtageké
non-attributive possessive - plural	hashtagéi	hashtagekéi

Possessive forms of hashtag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hashtagem	hashtagjeim
2nd person sing.	hashtaged	hashtagjeid
3rd person sing.	hashtagje	hashtagjei
1st person plural	hashtagünk	hashtagjeink
2nd person plural	hashtagetek	hashtagjeitek
3rd person plural	hashtagjük	hashtagjeik

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaʂ.tak/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʂtak
• Syllabification: hash‧tag

Noun

hashtag m inan

1. (Internet) Alternative spelling of hasztag

Declension

Declension of hashtag

	singular	plural
nominative	hashtag	hashtagi
genitive	hashtagu/hashtaga	hashtagów
dative	hashtagowi	hashtagom
accusative	hashtag	hashtagi
instrumental	hashtagiem	hashtagami
locative	hashtagu	hashtagach
vocative	hashtagu	hashtagi

Further reading

• hashtag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hashtag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

Noun

hashtag f or m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag (a tag with a hash sign)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaʃtaɡ/ [ˈxaʃ.t̪aɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -aʃtaɡ

Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. hashtag

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.