haft

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hæft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɑːft/

• Audio (Northern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːft, -æft

Etymology 1

From Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. The handle of a tool or weapon.
   • 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. , London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes , →OCLC, Act V, page 74:

     See this brandiſh'd Dagger: / […] / I'll bury to the haft, in her fair breaſt, / This Inſtrument of my Revenge.

Synonyms

• helve

Hyponyms

• hilt (sword handle)
• stale, stail, stele, steal (axe handle)

Translations

Verb

haft (third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)

1. (transitive) To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon).
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 218:

     Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.

2. (transitive) To grip by the handle.

Derived terms

• haftable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hefð.

Alternative forms

• heft

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. (Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.

Translations

Anagrams

• Fath

Danish

Pronunciation

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Verb

haft

1. past participle of have

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haft/
  • Rhymes: -aft

Noun

haft n (genitive singular hafts, nominative plural höft)

1. (of a horse) hobble
2. (in the plural) restrictions
3. (anatomy) frenulum
4. (genetics, of a chromosome) constriction

Declension

Derived terms

• aukahaft (secondary constriction)
• baklituhaft (posterior synechia)
• baugslituhaft (annular synechia)
• dausgarnarlokuhaft (frenulum valvae ilealis)
• dreift þráðhaft (diffuse centromere)
• efrivararhaft (frenulum labii superioris)
• forhúðarhaft (frenulum preputii penis)
• framlituhaft (anterior synechia)
• fylgiþráðhaft (centromerus comitans)
• hæðarhaft (altitude hold)
• haftaskurður (synechotomy)
• haftasvæði (restricted area)
• haft efra mænukylfutjalds (frenulum veli medullaris superioris)
• ljósstreymisstuðull straumhafts (ballast lumen factor)
• meðalhaftlengd (mean free path)
• meyjarhaft (hymen)
• meyjarhaftsdoppur (carunculae hymenales)
• neðrivararhaft (frenulum labii inferioris)
• oplaust meyjarhaft (imperforate hymen)
• skapabarmahaft (frenulum labiorum pudendi)
• snípshaft (frenulum clitoridis)
• þráðhaft (centromere)
• þráðhaftskúla (spherula centromeri)
• þráðhaftslaus (acentric)
• tunguhaft (frenulum linguae; ankyloglossia, tongue-tie)

Old Norse

Participle

haft

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hafðr

Verb

haft

1. supine of hafa

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

haft

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German haft, from Old High German hafta, from Proto-Germanic *haftō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaft/

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• Rhymes: -aft
• Syllabification: haft

Noun

haft m inan (diminutive hafcik)

1. embroidery (ornamentation of fabric using needlework)

   Synonym: hafciarstwo

2. embroidery (piece of embroidered fabric)

   Synonym: dzierganie

3. (colloquial) pavement pizza (patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground)

   Synonyms: paw, rzygowiny, wymioty

4. (colloquial, derogatory) worthless product of creative activities performed without much ambition

   Synonyms: chała, gniot, kicz, szmira

   Hypernym: tandeta

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. Alternative spelling of heft

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaft/

Verb

haft

1. supine of ha
2. supine of hava

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian هفت (haft).

Numeral

haft

1. seven