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• (General American) IPA(key): /hæft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɑːft/
• Rhymes: -ɑːft, -æft

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

haft (plural hafts)

1. The handle of a tool or weapon.

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

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 (gl), cabo (gl)
• Georgian: ვადა (ka) (vada)
• German: Heft (de) n, Griff (de) m
• Greek:
  Ancient Greek: 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)
• Tamil: பிடி (ta) (piṭi), கைப்பிடி (ta) (kaippiṭi), காம்பு (ta) (kāmpu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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.

• haftable

See heft (etymology 3).[1]

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”).

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.

• Fath
• IPA(key): [ˈhɑfd̥]

haft

1. past participle of have

• IPA(key): /haft/
  • Rhymes: -aft

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

• 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”)

haft

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hafðr

haft

1. supine of hafa

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

• IPA(key): /ˈxaft/
• Rhymes: -aft
• Syllabification: haft

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

• hafciarski

• hafciarka

• hafciarnia

• hafciarz

• haftaczka

• haftarka

• haftarnia

• haftarz

• haftka

• haftować impf

• wyhaftować pf

• hafciarstwo

• haftarstwo

• hafteczka

• haftkarz

• obhaftować pf

• obhaftowywać impf

• pohaftować pf

• uhaftować pf

• zahaftować pf

• zahaftowywać impf

• “haft”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• “haft”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)

From Old Norse hefð.

haft (plural hafts)

1. alternative spelling of heft

• IPA(key): /ˈhaft/

haft

1. supine of ha
2. supine of hava

Cognate with Persian هفت (haft).

haft

1. seven