haf

haf

1. Pronunciation spelling of have.
   • 1940 February, Jesse Stuart, chapter 3, in Trees of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., published March 1940 (4th printing), →OCLC, part I, page 18:

     I don’t want to haf to fight ’im but if I do haf to fight ’im I’ll fight to whop Pa.

   • [1957], Kyle Onstott, chapter 31, in Mandingo, Richmond, Va.: Denlinger’s, →OCLC, page 449:

     “Raise your hands,” commanded the second man. “Drop the hosses an’ raise your hands. We want your money. Don’t want to haf to shoot.”

   • 1973, Jaroslav Hašek, translated by Cecil Parrott, “In Budapest”, in The Good soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War […], London: Penguin Books, published 1974, →ISBN, part III (The Glorious Licking), page 536:

     Haf you already been to ze latrines?

   • 2009, Raymond Walter Seibert, “The Stage Line”, in Goin’ Up to Cripple Creek, DeSoto, Tex.: Advanced Concept Design Books, →ISBN, page 120:

     “Stand easy boys,” the voice called through the dark. “We've got you covered, and we don't want to haf to shoot."

   • 2017, P.F. Chisholm [pseudonym; Patricia Finney], “Edinburgh December 1592”, in A Clash of Spheres (Sir Robert Carey Mysteries; 8), Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 163:

     I made Lady Viddrington bring me with her for she should haf a woman and I vont see the man vat steal her heart and make her sad for she cannot haf you.

• ve haf vays of making you talk

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦaf]

haf

1. woof

• mňau

• “haf”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “haf”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “haf”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą.

• IPA^(key): /haːv/
• Rhymes: -aːv

haf n (genitive singular hafs, nominative plural höf)

1. ocean, sea

   Synonyms: sjór, úthaf, (poetic) ægir, (rare) viddi

• aðalhaf
• íshaf
• hafsjór
• Hafgufa

• oceans: höf: Atlantshaf · Indlandshaf · Kyrrahaf · Norður-Íshaf · Suður-Íshaf ^[edit]

haf

1. alternative form of haven (“to have”)

From Proto-Germanic *habą.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑv/

haf n (genitive hafs, plural hǫf)

1. sea, ocean

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “haf”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

haf

1. second-person present imperative of hava

From Dutch haven.

haf

1. harbour
2. port

Borrowed from German Haff.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaf/
• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: haf

haf m inan

1. (obsolete) bay, cove, gulf (body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land)

   Synonym: zatoka

• haf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

haf

1. imperative of hafva

From Old Welsh ham, from Proto-Brythonic *haβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *samos, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-.

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /haːv/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /haː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /haːv/
• Rhymes: -aːv

haf m (plural hafau, not mutable)

1. summer

   Synonym: (poetic) hefin