luft

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.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈluft]

Noun

luft m inan

1. (informal) air

   Synonym: vzduch

Further reading

• “luft”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “luft”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔfd]

Noun

luft c (definite singular luften) (uncountable)

1. air

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʊft]

Noun

luft f (genitive singular luftar, uncountable)

1. air
2. atmosphere, sky

Alternative forms

• lift(e), left(e), lüfte

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

Noun

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

1. air

Etymology

From Middle Low German lucht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʉft/

Noun

luft f (definite singular lufta, uncountable)

1. air

References

• “luft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• lufte

Etymology

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

Noun

luft

1. air
2. the sky

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft. Doublet of lift and loft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluft/

• Audio:

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• 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

Further reading

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

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.

Etymology

From German Luft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lûft/

Noun

lȕft m (Cyrillic spelling лу̏фт)

1. (colloquial) air

   Synonyms: vàzdūh, zrȃk

References

• “luft”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luft.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

luft m inan

1. air

   Synonym: powietrze

Further reading

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

Etymology

Borrowing from German Luft.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

luft c

1. air

   att andas luft

   to breathe air

   uppe i luften

   up in the air

References

• luft in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• luft in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• luft in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• fult