# haft
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /hæft/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɑːft/
* Audio (Northern England):(file)
* 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)
* 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
#### Verb

haft (third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)
* (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.
* (transitive) To grip by the handle.

##### Derived terms

* haftable

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

See heft (etymology 3).

#### Noun

haft (plural hafts)
* (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)
* (transitive, intransitive, 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, Jedadiah 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.

### References

* ↑ Compare “haft, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “haft, v.$^3$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

### Anagrams

* Fath

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɑfd̥]

### Verb

haft
* past participle of have

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haft/
** Rhymes: -aft

### Noun

haft n (genitive singular hafts, nominative plural höft)
* (of a horse) hobble
* (in the plural) restrictions
* (anatomy) frenulum
* (genetics, of a chromosome) constriction

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

## Old Norse
### Participle

haft
* strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hafðr

### Verb

haft
* supine of hafa

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxaft/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aft
* Syllabification: haft

### Noun

haft m inan (diminutive hafcik)
* embroidery (ornamentation of fabric using needlework)
    Synonym: hafciarstwo
* embroidery (piece of embroidered fabric)
    Synonym: dzierganie
* (colloquial) pavement pizza (patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground)
    Synonyms: paw, rzygowiny, wymioty
* (colloquial, derogatory) worthless product of creative activities performed without much ambition
    Synonyms: chała, gniot, kicz, szmira
    Hypernym: tandeta

#### Derived terms

* hafciarski
* hafciarka
* hafciarnia
* hafciarz
* haftaczka
* haftarka
* haftarnia
* haftarz
* haftka
* haftować impf
* wyhaftować pf

#### Related terms

* hafciarstwo
* haftarstwo
* hafteczka
* haftkarz
* 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)
* Alternative spelling of heft

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhaft/

### Verb

haft
* supine of ha
* supine of hava

## Talysh
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian هفت (haft).

### Numeral

haft
* seven