A woman's ponytail .
From pony + tail .
ponytail (plural ponytails )
A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.
2021 , Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations , page 154 :The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails , buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
hairstyle
Arabic: ذَيْل الْحِصَان m ( ḏayl al-ḥiṣān )
Egyptian Arabic: ديل حصان m ( dél ḥuṣan )
Bulgarian: конска опашка f ( konska opaška )
Catalan: cua (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馬尾 / 马尾 (zh) ( mǎwěi ) , 馬尾辮 / 马尾辫 (zh) ( mǎwěibiàn )
Czech: culík m
Danish: hestehale (da) c
Esperanto: ponevosto
Finnish: poninhäntä (fi)
French: queue-de-cheval (fr) f
German: Pferdeschwanz (de) m , Rossschwanz m ( Swiss German )
Greek: αλογοουρά (el) f ( alogoourá )
Hungarian: lófarok (hu)
Icelandic: tagl (is) n , stertur m
Irish: pónaí m
Italian: coda di cavallo f
Japanese: ポニーテール (ja) ( ponītēru )
Korean: 포니테일 ( poniteil )
Macedonian: ко́њска о́пашка f ( kónjska ópaška ) , о́павче n ( ópavče )
Norman: coue d'ponîn f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hestehale m
Nynorsk: hestehale m
Polish: kucyk (pl) m
Portuguese: rabo-de-cavalo m
Romanian: coadă (ro)
Russian: ко́нский хвост m ( kónskij xvost ) , хво́стик (ru) m ( xvóstik )
Spanish: coleta (es) f , cola de caballo (es) f , coletilla (es) f , rabo capilar , rabo capital m , rabo piloso m , rabo caballuno m , rabo caballar m
Swedish: hästsvans (sv) c
Tagalog: puyod
Thai: หางม้า ( hǎang-máa )
Turkish: atkuyruğu (tr)
Welsh: cynffon merlen f
ponytail (third-person singular simple present ponytails , present participle ponytailing , simple past and past participle ponytailed )
( transitive ) To form (the hair) into a ponytail.
2017 , A. W. Hartoin, Brain Trust :“Don't mention it,” she said, ponytailing her hair and then sockbunning it with amazing speed.