luft

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

luft (plural lufts)

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

Borrowed from German Luft.

• IPA^(key): [ˈluft]

luft m inan

1. (informal) air

   Synonym: vzduch

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

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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔfd]

luft c (definite singular luften) (uncountable)

1. air

• luftmodstand
• luftskib

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

• IPA^(key): [lʊft]

luft f (genitive singular luftar, uncountable)

1. air
2. atmosphere, sky

Declension of luft (singular only)
f2s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	luft	luftin
accusative	luft	luftina
dative	luft	luftini
genitive	luftar	luftarinnar

• skýggj
• tora
• snarljós

• lift(e), left(e), lüfte

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.

lüft

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

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

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

1. air

From Middle Low German lucht.

• IPA^(key): /lʉft/

luft f (definite singular lufta, uncountable)

1. air

• “luft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• lufte

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

luft

1. air
2. the sky

• North Frisian: loft (“the sky”)

Borrowed from German Luft. Doublet of lift and loft.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluft/

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• Rhymes: -uft
• Syllabification: luft

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

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

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.

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.

From German Luft.

• IPA^(key): /lûft/

lȕft m (Cyrillic spelling лу̏фт)

1. (colloquial) air

   Synonyms: vàzdūh, zrȃk

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

Borrowed from German Luft.

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

luft m inan

1. air

   Synonym: powietrze

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

Borrowing from German Luft.

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luft c

1. air

   att andas luft

   to breathe air

   uppe i luften

   up in the air

• flyga i luften (“to explode, to blow up”)
• bygga luftslott (“to build castles in the air”)
• frilufts-
• luftherravälde
• lufthunger
• luftmotstånd
• luftskepp
• luftslott
• luftvärn
• luftöverlägsenhet
• tagen ur luften (“made up”, literally “taken out of the air”)

• lufta

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

• fult