housing

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• /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/
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From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: подслон (podslon) — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Catalan: habitatge — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Catalan: allotjament — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• French: logement — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Hungarian: lakásépítés — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Hungarian: lakhatás — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Hungarian: lakásügy — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Hungarian: lakáshelyzet — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Hungarian: lakásviszonyok — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Hungarian: elhelyezés — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Irish: tithíocht — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Occitan: abitatge — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Spanish: alojamiento — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Tagalog: pabahay — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Turkish: ikametgâh — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Turkish: konut — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Turkish: mesken — activity of enclosing or providing residence
• Bulgarian: жилище (žilište) — residences
• Catalan: habitatge — residences
• Catalan: vivenda — residences
• French: logement — residences
• French: résidence — residences
• German: Wohnungen — residences
• Hungarian: lakás — residences
• Hungarian: ház — residences
• Hungarian: szállás — residences
• Irish: tithíocht — residences
• Irish: tithe — residences
• Māori: wharenoho — residences
• Russian: жильё (žilʹjó) — residences
• Spanish: vivienda — residences
• Bulgarian: корпус (korpus) — container
• Bulgarian: кожух (kožuh) — container
• Hungarian: burkolat — container
• Hungarian: ház — container
• Hungarian: hüvely — container
• Hungarian: tok — container
• Irish: cásáil — container
• Italian: alloggiamento — container
• Italian: contenitore — container
• Italian: scatola — container
• Japanese: ハウジング (haujingu) — container
• Japanese: 筐体 (kyōtai) — container
• Norwegian Bokmål: hus — container
• Norwegian Bokmål: strømpe — container
• Russian: ко́жух (kóžux) — container
• Russian: футля́р (futljár) — container
• Russian: чехо́л (čexól) — container
• Russian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — container
• Swedish: hus — container
• Swedish: kåpa — container
• Swedish: skal — container
• Swedish: huv — container
• Hungarian: nyeregtakaró — cover or cloth for a horse’s saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings