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English
Etymology
From hay + loft.
Noun
hayloft (plural haylofts)
- The upper storey of a barn used for storing hay.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 33:"I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]"
Translations
upper storey of a barn
- Armenian: մարագ (hy) (marag), խոտանոց (hy) (xotanocʻ)
- Azerbaijani: samanlıq
- Bulgarian: плевня (bg) f (plevnja), сеновал m (senoval)
- Catalan: pallissa (ca) f, herbera f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 乾草棚/干草棚 (zh) (gāncǎopéng), 乾草倉/干草仓 (gāncǎocāng)
- Danish: høloft n
- Dutch: hooischuur (nl) m
- Esperanto: fojnejo
- Finnish: heinävintti
- French: grenier à foin m, fenil (fr) m
- Georgian: სათივე (sative)
- German: Heuboden (de) m, Heubühne f (Switzerland), Heudiele (Switzerland)
- Alemannic German: Brügi
- Ido: granario (io)
- Irish: lochta féir m
- Italian: fienile (it) m
- Japanese: 干し草置き場 (hoshigusa no okiba)
- Latin: fenile n, faenīlia n pl
- Macedonian: се́нарник m (sénarnik), пле́вна f (plévna)
- Norman: solyi à fain m (Jersey), f'nîn m (Jersey)
- Norwegian: høyloft n
- Persian: کاهدان (fa) (kâhdân), کاهخانه (kâhxâne), کاهانبار (kâha-nbâr)
- Polish: sąsiek (pl) m
- Portuguese: palheiro (pt) m
- Russian: сенова́л (ru) m (senovál), се́нник (ru) m (sénnik)
- Spanish: henil (es) m
- Swedish: höskulle (sv) c, höloft (sv) n
- Ukrainian: сінова́л m (sinovál), сі́нник m (sínnyk)
- Volapük: sigayebamasad
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