hammock

hammock

See also: Hammock

English

A couple in a hammock.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Arawak hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. 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^(key): /ˈhæmək/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmək/, /ˈhæmɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æmək

Noun

hammock (plural hammocks)

1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     ...the poore ſaylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies...

2. (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Derived terms

• hammock netting

Translations

swinging couch or bed

Albanian: shtrat i varur, hamak Arabic: أُرْجُوحَة شَبَكِيَّة‎ f (ʾurjūḥa(t) šabakiyya) Armenian: ցանցաճոճ (hy) (cʿancʿačoč), գամակ (hy) (gamak), համակ (hy) (hamak) Basque: hamaka Belarusian: гама́к m (hamák) Breton: gwele-skourr (br) m Bulgarian: хама́к m (hamák) Burmese: ပုခက် (my) (pu.hkak) Catalan: hamaca f Chinese: Mandarin: 吊床 (zh) (diàochuáng) Czech: houpací síť f Danish: hængekøje (da) c Dutch: hangmat (nl) f Esperanto: hamako Estonian: võrkkiik Faroese: heingikoyggja f Finnish: riippumatto (fi) French: hamac (fr) m Georgian: ჰამაკი (ka) (hamaḳi) German: Hängematte (de) f Greek: αιώρα (el) f (aióra) Ancient: αἰώρα f (aiṓra) Hawaiian: ʻahamaka Hebrew: ערסל‎ (he) (arsal) Hindi: झूला (hi) m (jhūlā), जालीदार झूला (jālīdār jhūlā) Hungarian: függőágy (hu) Icelandic: hengirúm (is) n Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: hamaca Irish: ámóg f, leaba luascáin f Isthmus Zapotec: guixhe Italian: amaca (it) f, branda (it) Japanese: ハンモック (hanmokku) Kayapó: kubẽjaê Khmer: អង្រឹង (km) (ɑŋrɨŋ) Korean: 해먹 (haemeok) Lao: ເປ (pē) Latin: lectulus pensilis Latvian: šūpuļtīkls m Lithuanian: hamakas m Macedonian: лежалка f (ležalka) Malay: buaian rajut Maltese: branda Maori: moenga whakawerewere Norwegian: Bokmål: hengekøye (no) m or f Nynorsk: hengjekøye f Persian: ننو‎ (fa) (nanu), بانوج‎ (fa) (bânuj), بادنیج‎ (bâdnij) (archaic) Plautdietsch: Henjbad n Polish: hamak (pl) m Portuguese: rede (pt) f, rede de dormir f, rede de descanso f, maca (pt) f (nautical) Rarotongan: ‘āmaka Romanian: hamac (ro) n Russian: гама́к (ru) m (gamák) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: висаљка f Roman: visaljka (sh) f Slovak: hojdacia sieť f Slovene: viseča mreža (sl) f Spanish: hamaca (es) f, hamaca paraguaya f (Argentina, Uruguay) Swahili: machela (sw) Swedish: hängmatta (sv) c Tamil: கித்தான்கட்டில் (kittāṉkaṭṭil) Thai: เปลญวน (th) (bplee-yuuan) Turkish: hamak (tr) Ukrainian: гама́к m (hamák), підві́сне лі́жко (pidvísne lížko) Urdu: جالی دار جھولا‎, جھولن کھٹولا‎ Vietnamese: võng (vi) Welsh: hamog m, hamogau m pl White Hmong: vaum vias

piece of land

Chinese: Mandarin: 茂密的林地 (màomì de líndì) Finnish: pusikko French: hammock (fr) m German: Bauminsel f

Verb

hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)

1. (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
   • 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article):

     "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."

2. (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
   • 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter

     "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."

3. (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
   • 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game

     "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."

4. (transitive, broadcasting) To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.

   Coordinate term: tentpole

Further reading

• hammock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Swedish

Noun

hammock c

1. hammock

Declension

Declension of hammock
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hammock	hammocken	hammockar	hammockarna
Genitive	hammocks	hammockens	hammockars	hammockarnas