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luft

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See also: Luft, lüft, and ľuft

English

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Etymology

From German Luft (“air”). Doublet of lift and loft.

Noun

luft (plural lufts)

  1. (chess) A piece moved in front of a king to prevent a back-rank mate.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

Noun

luft m inan

  1. (informal) air
    Synonym: vzduch

Declension

Declension of luft (hard masculine inanimate)
More information singular, plural ...

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Danish

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Etymology

From Middle Low German luft, lucht (“air, smell”), from Old Saxon luft, from Proto-West Germanic *luftu. Probably influenced by German Luft (“air”). It is a cognate of Danish loft (“attic”) and Danish lugt (“smell”).

Pronunciation

Noun

luft c (definite singular luften) (uncountable)

  1. air

Declension

More information common gender, singular ...

Derived terms

References

Faroese

Etymology

From Middle Low German lucht, from Old Saxon luft, from Proto-West Germanic *luftu.

Pronunciation

Noun

luft f (genitive singular luftar, uncountable)

  1. air
  2. atmosphere, sky

Declension

More information f2s, singular ...
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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English lyft (“air, atmosphere, firmament”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, upper region”). More at lift. Doublet of lofte.

Noun

lüft

  1. air
  2. atmosphere
  3. heavens, sky, firmament

Descendants

  • English: lift (“the sky, atmosphere”)
  • Scots: lift, luft

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

luft f or m (definite singular lufta or luften, uncountable)

  1. air

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Middle Low German lucht.

Pronunciation

Noun

luft f (definite singular lufta, uncountable)

  1. air

Derived terms

References

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Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, upper region”).

Noun

luft

  1. air
  2. the sky

Descendants

  • North Frisian: loft (“the sky”)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft. Doublet of lift and loft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluft/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uft
  • Syllabification: luft

Noun

luft m inan (diminutive lufcik)

  1. (archaic, architecture) pipe in a stove, chimney, or kitchen that carries away smoke
  2. (colloquial, Poznań) air
    Synonym: powietrze

Declension

Declension of luft
More information singular, nominative ...

Derived terms

adjective
verb

Further reading

  • luft in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • luft in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English luft, lufte, from Old English lyft (“the lower sky (as opposed to the upper atmosphere, or heavens), air, atmosphere”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz.

Noun

luft (uncountable)

  1. alternative form of lift
    • 1898, David Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots (in English), page 437:
      Bothwell told Sir James Melville that he saw the strangest accident that ever chancit, to wit the powder cam out of the luft [i.e. the sky], and had brunt the Kingis house, and himself found lying dead a litle distance from the house under a tre;
    • 1977, Douglas Young, Clara Young, David D. Murison, A Clear Voice: Douglas Young, Poet and Polymath (in English), page 39:
      Gesserant sails on a skinklan frith, gowd-yalla luft and blue o the sea
    • 1996, Review of Scottish Culture - Issues 10-12 (in English), page 101:
      […] kind of phonetic spelling which resembles Elphinston's recommendations for an orthographic reform as issued in the eighteenth century, so his proverbs and sayings have to be practically translated: Gin dhe luft wuz tay faw, dhe laivruks wud bee smuird – if the sky were to fall, the larks would be smothered.
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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

Noun

lȕft m inan (Cyrillic spelling лу̏фт)

  1. (colloquial) air
    Synonyms: vàzdūh, zrȃk

References

  • “luft”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Silesian

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluft/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uft
  • Syllabification: luft

Noun

luft m inan

  1. air
    Synonym: powietrze

Further reading

  • luft in dykcjonorz.eu
  • luft in silling.org

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from German Luft.

Pronunciation

Noun

luft c

  1. air
    att andas luft
    to breathe air
    uppe i luften
    up in the air

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Derived terms

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