halt

See also Halt, and hält

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːlt

Etymology 1

Middle High German halt (imperative of halten); Old High German haltan. English usage circa 1598 in one sense, the intransitive verb sense wasn't used until 1656.

Verb

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. (intransitive) To stop marching.
2. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 1/2, The Younger Set^[1]:

     And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs […] peeped perfunctorily into the nursery […] and halted amazed.

3. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
4. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.

   The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.

Translations

to stop either temporarily or permanently

• Esperanto: halti (eo)
• Finnish: pysähtyä (fi), seisahtua (fi)
• French: halter (fr)
• German: anhalten (de), stoppen (de), rasten (de)

• Japanese: 停止する (ja) (teishisuru), 休止する (ja) (kyūshisuru)
• Norwegian: stoppe (no), bremse (no)
• Quechua: sayay (qu)
• Spanish: parar (es)

to cause something to stop

• Esperanto: haltigi (eo)
• Finnish: pysäyttää (fi), seisauttaa (fi)
• German: anhalten (de), stoppen (de), stocken (de)
• Italian: fermare (it)
• Japanese: 押し止める (ja) (oshitodomeru), さまたげる (ja) (samatageru)

• Norwegian: stoppe (no)
• Quechua: sayay (qu)
• Russian: останавливать (ru) (ostanávlivat’) n 
• Spanish: parar (es)

to waver or be hesitant

• German: anhalten (de), stoppen (de), stocken (de), zögern (de)
• Japanese: ためらう (ja) (tamerau)

• Norwegian: nøle (no), avvente (no)

Noun

halt (plural halts)

1. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

   The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.

   • Clarendon

     Without any halt they marched.

2. A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

   The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.

Translations

cessation

• Armenian: դադար (hy) (dadar) 
• Esperanto: halto (eo)
• Finnish: pysähtyminen (fi), pysähdys (fi) (temporary); loppu (fi), lopettaminen (fi) (permanent)

• German: Halt (de) m, Blockierung (de) f, Pause (de)

minor railway station

• Esperanto: trajnhaltejo (eo)
• Finnish: seisake (fi)

• German: Halteplatz (de) m, Haltestelle (de) f
• Portuguese: apeadeiro (pt)

Etymology 2

Old English healt (verb healtian), from Proto-Germanic *haltaz. Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.

Adjective

halt (comparative more halt, superlative most halt)

1. (archaic) Lame, limping.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IX:

     It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell [...].

   • Bible, Luke xiv. 21

     Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

Verb

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. To limp.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     Do not smile at me that I boast her off,

     For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,

     And make it halt behind her.

2. To waver.
3. To falter.

Translations

to limp

• Esperanto: lami (eo)
• Russian: хромать (ru) (xromátʼ) n 

• Swedish: halta (sv)

Noun

halt (plural halts)

1. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

Anagrams

• lath

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Danish

Adjective

halt

1. lame

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German

Etymology 1

From halten

Interjection

halt!

1. stop!, wait!

Etymology 2

Adverb

halt

1. (colloquial) just; indicating that a thing cannot be changed

   "Dann müssen wir halt härter arbeiten." (Then we’ll just have to work harder.)

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Hungarian

Etymology

past participle of hal

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɒlt/

Verb

halt

1. died

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [hal̪ˠt̪ˠ]

Noun

halt m

1. Mutated form of alt.

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Old French

Adjective

halt m (feminine halte)

1. high; elevated

Adverb

halt

1. loud; loudly

Derived terms

• haltement