English
Etymology
A word of Taino (Amerindian language) origin: compare Spanish hamaca. 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|/�hæm�k/
Noun
en-noun
- A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
- italbrac|Southern US A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also attributively; as, hammock land. - Bartlett
Derived terms
hammock nettings (Nautical) formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; later, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.
Translations
trreq|Albanian
trreq|Arabic
trreq|Armenian
Bulgarian: �амак (khamak) m
trreq|Catalan
trreq|Danish
Dutch: hangmat f
Esperanto: hamako
trreq|Estonian
Finnish: riippumatto
French: hamac m
Georgian: ������ (hamaki)
German: Hängematte f
Hebrew: ערס� (arsal) m
trreq|Hindi
Hungarian: függ�ágy
Interlingua: hamaca
Isthmus Zapotec: guixhe
Italian: amaca f
Japanese: ����� (hanmokku)
trreq|Korean
trreq|Latin
mid
trreq|Latvian
trreq|Lithuanian
trreq|Maltese
Norwegian: hengekøye f
trreq|Persian
Polish: hamak m
Portuguese: rede de descanso f
Romanian: t|ro|hamac|n
Russian: гамак (gamák) m
Serbian: visaljka f
Slovak: hojdacia sieť f
trreq|Slovene
Spanish: hamaca f, hamaca paraguaya f italbrac|Argentina|Uruguay
trreq|Swahili
Swedish: hängmatta c
Tamil: �ித�தான�����ில� (kittankattil)
Thai: Thai|��ล�ว� (bplay yuan)
trreq|Turkish
trreq|Ukrainian
trreq|Urdu
trreq|Vietnamese
de:hammock
fa:hammock
io:hammock
it:hammock
lt:hammock
pl:hammock
fi:hammock
te:hammock
vi:hammock
tr:hammock
zh:hammock
|
