different between heft vs hefs

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

From Middle English heft, derived from Middle English heven (“to lift, heave”), equivalent to heave +? -t (“-th”). For development, compare English weft from weave, cleft from cleave, theft from thieve, etc.

Alternative forms

• haft

Noun

heft (countable and uncountable, plural hefts)

1. (uncountable) Weight.
   • 1859, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford

     a man of his age and heft
2. Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness.
3. The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
4. (US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.
   • 1865, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys: a Story of Threads and Thrums

     The turkey's nest was islanded with a fragrant swath , the “heft” of the crop noted and rejoiced over.

Derived terms

• hefty

Translations

Verb

heft (third-person singular simple present hefts, present participle hefting, simple past and past participle hefted)

1. (transitive) To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.

   He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.

2. (transitive) To test the weight of something by lifting it.
3. (obsolete) past participle of heave

Synonyms

• (to lift up): hoist

Translations

Etymology 2

From English and Scots dialect, ultimately from Old Norse hefð (“possession, statute of limitations, prescriptive right”) (compare Old Norse hefða (“to acquire prescriptive rights”)), from Proto-Germanic *habiþ?, equivalent to have +? -t (“-th”). Cognate with Scots heft, heff (“an accustomed pasture”).

Noun

heft (plural hefts)

1. (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
2. An animal that has become hefted thus.
3. (West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.

Verb

heft (third-person singular simple present hefts, present participle hefting, simple past and past participle hefted)

1. (transitive, Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.

Etymology 3

From German Heft (“notebook”).

Noun

heft (plural hefts)

1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
2. A part of a serial publication.
   • 1900, The Nation Volume 70

     The size of "hefts" will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost about 15 marks.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Hyphenation: heft
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hefte, from Old Dutch *hefti, from Proto-Germanic *haftij?. Forms with -cht- were dominant in Middle Dutch.

Noun

heft n (plural heften, diminutive heftje n)

1. handle of a knife or other tool, haft, hilt
2. (metaphor, used absolutely: het heft) control, charge

   Synonyms: gevest, handgreep

Alternative forms

• hecht

Derived terms

• het heft in eigen handen nemen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

heft

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of heffen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of heffen

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *haptá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??. Compare Avestan ????????????????????? (hapta), Persian ???? (haft), Ossetian ??? (avd), Pashto ????? (uw?).

Numeral

heft

1. seven

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb hefte.

Noun

heft n (definite singular heftet, indefinite plural heft, definite plural hefta)

1. encumberment

Verb

heft

1. imperative of hefta and hefte

References

• “heft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

heft

1. A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
2. An animal that has become hefted thus.

Verb

heft (third-person singular present hefts, present participle heftin, past heftit, past participle heftit)

1. (transitive) The process by which a farm animal becomes accustomed to an area of mountain pasture.

English

Noun

hefs

1. plural of hef