hovel

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von hovel im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: kümes; derme çatma ev; virane; küçük kulübe; ahır gibi ev; mezbele; pislik yuva; {i} kulübe; harap kulübe mezbele; {i} derme çatma ev; (tahta) baraka; {i} açık ağıl; {i} ağıl

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von hovel im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut; In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped; An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather; To put in a hovel; to shelter; {n} a shed, mean cottage, shelter; {v} to shelter or put in a hovel; A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped; A hovel is a small hut, especially one which is dirty or needs a lot of repair. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years; small crude shelter used as a dwelling; from the weather; {i} shack, hut, broken-down dwelling; An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc; disapproval You describe a house, room, or flat as a hovel to express your disapproval or dislike of it because it is dirty, untidy, and in poor condition. I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel. = dump. a small dirty place where someone lives, especially a very poor person (Perhaps from )
hovels: plural of hovel

hovel

Silbentrennung

hov·el

Türkische aussprache

hʌvıl

Synonyme

burrow, cabin, cottage, den, dump, hole, hut, hutch, lean-to, pigpen, pigsty, rathole, rattrap, shack, shanty

Aussprache

/ˈhəvəl/ /ˈhʌvəl/

Etymologie

[ 'h&-v&l, 'hä- ] (noun.) 15th century. From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-Germanic *hufan (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“arch, bend, buckle”). Cognate with Dutch hof (“garden, court”), German Hof (“yard, garden, court, palace”), Icelandic hof (“temple, hall”). Related to hove and hover.