hammock

See also: Hammock

English

A couple in a hammock.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæmək/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmək/, /ˈhæmɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æmək

Noun

hammock (plural hammocks)

1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
   • 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 7:

     […] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 355:

     [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?

2. (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Derived terms

• banana hammock
• hammockless
• hammocklike
• hammock litter
• hammock netting
• hammocky

Descendants

• Swedish: hammock

Translations

swinging couch or bed

• Albanian: shtrat i varur, hamak
• Arabic: أُرْجُوحَة شَبَكِيَّة f (ʔurjūḥa(t) šabakiyya)
• Armenian: ցանցաճոճ (hy) (cʻancʻačoč), գամակ (hy) (gamak), համակ (hy) (hamak)
• Basque: hamaka
• Belarusian: гама́к m (hamák)
• Breton: gwele-skourr (br) m
• Bulgarian: хама́к (bg) m (hamák)
• Burmese: ပုခက် (my) (pu.hkak)
• Catalan: hamaca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吊床 (zh) (diàochuáng)

• Czech: houpací síť f, hamaka (cs) f
• Danish: hængekøje (da) c
• Dutch: hangmat (nl) f
• Esperanto: hamako
• Estonian: võrkkiik
• Faroese: heingikoyggja f
• Finnish: riippumatto (fi)
• French: hamac (fr) m
• Friulian: amaca f
• Galician: hamaca f
• Georgian: ჰამაკი (ka) (hamaḳi)
• German: Hängematte (de) f
• Greek: αιώρα (el) f (aióra)

  Ancient: αἰώρα f (aiṓra)

• Hawaiian: ʻahamaka
• Hebrew: ערסל (he) (arsal)
• Hindi: झूला (hi) m (jhūlā), जालीदार झूला (jālīdār jhūlā)
• Hungarian: függőágy (hu)
• Icelandic: hengirúm (is) n
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingua: hamaca
• Irish: ámóg f, leaba luascáin f
• Isthmus Zapotec: guixhe
• Italian: amaca (it) f, branda (it)
• Japanese: ハンモック (ja) (hanmokku)
• Kayapó: kubẽjaê
• Khmer: អង្រឹង (km) (ɑŋrɨŋ)
• Korean: 해먹 (haemeok)
• Lao: ເປ (pē)
• Latin: lectulus pensilis
• Latvian: šūpuļtīkls m
• Lithuanian: hamakas m
• Macedonian: лежалка f (ležalka)
• Malay: buaian rajut
• Maltese: branda
• Maori: moenga whakawerewere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hengekøye (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: hengjekøye f

• Occitan: hamaca f, litiera f
• Ottoman Turkish: حاماق (hamak)
• Persian: ننو (fa) (nanu), بانوج (fa) (bânuj), بادنیج (bâdnij) (archaic)
• Plautdietsch: Henjbad n
• Polish: hamak (pl) m
• Portuguese: rede (pt) f, rede de dormir f, rede de descanso f, maca (pt) f (nautical)
• Rarotongan: ‘āmaka
• Romanian: hamac (ro) n
• Russian: гама́к (ru) m (gamák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: висаљка f

  Roman: visaljka (sh) f

• Slovak: hojdacia sieť f, hamak (sk) m
• Slovene: viseča mreža (sl) f
• Spanish: hamaca (es) f, hamaca paraguaya f (Argentina, Uruguay)
• Swahili: machela (sw)
• Swedish: (bed) hängmatta (sv) c; (couch) hammock (sv) c
• Tamil: கித்தான்கட்டில் (kittāṉkaṭṭil)
• Thai: เปลญวน (th) (bplee-yuuan)
• Turkish: hamak (tr)
• Ukrainian: гама́к m (hamák), підві́сне лі́жко (pidvísne lížko)
• Urdu: جالی دار جھولا (jālī dār jholā), جھولن کھٹولا
• Vietnamese: võng (vi)
• Welsh: hamog m, hamogau m pl
• White Hmong: vaum vias
• Záparo: kwaticha, kwatíchaw

piece of land

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茂密的林地 (màomì de líndì)

• Finnish: pusikko
• French: hammock (fr) m
• German: Bauminsel f

Verb

hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)

1. (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
   • 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article):

     "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."

2. (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
   • 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter‎^[1]:

     "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."

3. (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
   • 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game‎^[2]:

     "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."

4. (transitive, broadcasting) To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.

   Coordinate term: tentpole

Derived terms

• hammocked
• hammocking

Swedish

en hammock

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hammock. Derived from Spanish hamaca. Ultimately derived from Taíno *hamaka. First attested in 1853.

Doublet of hängmatta (“hammock; suspended bed”).

Noun

hammock c

1. A hammock; a canopy swing; a freestanding garden furniture with a suspended couch.

Declension

Declension of hammock

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hammock	hammocks
	definite	hammocken	hammockens
plural	indefinite	hammockar	hammockars
	definite	hammockarna	hammockarnas

See also

• hängmatta (“hammock; suspended bed”)