Get hovered word from hover() in Jquery?

I want to make an auto translate from the word that I mouse over on it. I use

$('p').hover(function () {
  var hoveredWord = $(this).text();
  translate(hoveredWord, 'en'); // function to translate a word to English Language
});

It will return the whole text within the paragraph, however, I just want a word that I hover not the whole text. Is there any function in Jquery I can use to archive this? thanks.