haft

See also: Haft and -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

handle

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: дръжка (bg) f (drǎžka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: heft (nl) n, greep (nl) m, handvat (nl) n, handgreep (nl) m
• Esperanto: tenilo
• Finnish: varsi (fi), kahva (fi)
• Galician: empuñadura (gl) f, puño (gl), mango, cabo (gl)
• Georgian: ვადა (ka) (vada)
• German: Heft (de) n, Griff (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: λαβή f (labḗ)

• Hebrew: קת (he) f (kat), ידית (he) f (yadít)
• Italian: elsa (it) f, coccia (it) f, impugnatura (it) f, guardamano m, presa (it) f, ansa (it) f, maniglia (it) f, manopola (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ដង (km) (dɑɑng)
• Korean: 손잡이 (ko) (sonjabi), 자루 (ko) (jaru)
• Latin: manubrium n
• Mongolian: бариул (mn) (bariul)
• Portuguese: cabo (pt) m
• Russian: ру́чка (ru) f (rúčka), рукоя́тка (ru) f (rukojátka), черено́к (ru) m (čerenók)
• Scottish Gaelic: lurgann f
• Spanish: empuñadura (es) m, asidero (es) m
• Swedish: skaft (sv) n, handtag (sv) n
• Tagalog: puluhan, landa (tl) (axe)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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

fit a handle

• Bulgarian: слагам дръжка (slagam drǎžka)
• Dutch: er een handvat aanzetten, vatten (nl)
• Galician: manchar (gl), mangar
• Swedish: skafta (sv)

Etymology 2

See heft (etymology 3).

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative spelling of heft (“piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to; flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland”).

Verb

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

1. (ambitransitive, Northern England, Scotland) Alternative spelling of heft (“(transitive) to accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland; to establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence; to establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; (intransitive, reflexive) of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place”)
   • 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 28:

     […] I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canogate of Edinburgh.

     […] I had heard him say, that the root of the matter was more deeply hafted in that wild moorland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.

Anagrams

• Fath

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɑfd̥]

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

Declension of haft (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	haft	haftið	höft	höftin
accusative	haft	haftið	höft	höftin
dative	hafti	haftinu	höftum	höftunum
genitive	hafts	haftsins	hafta	haftanna

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”)
• haft efra mænukylfutjalds (“frenulum veli medullaris superioris”)
• haftaskurður (“synechotomy”)
• haftasvæði (“restricted area”)
• hæðarhaft (“altitude hold”)
• 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”)
• tunguhaft (“frenulum linguae; ankyloglossia, tongue-tie”)
• þráðhaft (“centromere”)
• þráðhaftskúla (“spherula centromeri”)
• þráðhaftslaus (“acentric”)

Old Norse

Participle

haft

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hafðr

Verb

haft

1. supine of hafa

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaft/

• Audio:

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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

Declension of haft

	singular	plural
nominative	haft	hafty
genitive	haftu	haftów
dative	haftowi	haftom
accusative	haft	hafty
instrumental	haftem	haftami
locative	hafcie	haftach
vocative	hafcie	hafty

Derived terms

adjective

• hafciarski

nouns

• hafciarka
• hafciarnia
• hafciarz
• haftaczka
• haftarka
• haftarnia
• haftarz
• haftka

verbs

• haftować impf
• wyhaftować pf

Related terms

nouns

• hafciarstwo
• haftarstwo
• hafteczka
• haftkarz

verbs

• obhaftować pf
• obhaftowywać impf
• pohaftować pf
• uhaftować pf
• zahaftować pf
• zahaftowywać impf

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