roost

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹuːst/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ɹʉwst/
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• General-American: /ɹust/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ɹʉːst/
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• Wales: /ɾuːst/
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• Scotland: /ɾʉst/
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• Northern-Ireland: /ɻʉst/
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• rhymes with -uːst
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• CMU ARPABET: R UW1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan. Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: төнәү (tönəw) — place for sleeping birds
• Central Bikol: tugdunan — place for sleeping birds
• Catalan: jóc — place for sleeping birds
• Czech: kurník — place for sleeping birds
• Czech: hřad — place for sleeping birds
• Estonian: tana — place for sleeping birds
• Finnish: nukkumapaikka — place for sleeping birds
• Galician: poleiro — place for sleeping birds
• German: Nest — place for sleeping birds
• Ancient Greek: πέτευρον (péteuron) — place for sleeping birds
• Irish: fara — place for sleeping birds
• Italian: pollaio — place for sleeping birds
• Japanese: 塒 (negura) — place for sleeping birds
• Latvian: lakta — place for sleeping birds
• Lithuanian: lakta — place for sleeping birds
• Macedonian: се́дело (sédelo) — place for sleeping birds
• Māori: tūhunga — place for sleeping birds
• Khiamniungan Naga: vēutīng — place for sleeping birds
• Polish: grzęda — place for sleeping birds
• Portuguese: poleiro — place for sleeping birds
• Russian: насе́ст (nasést) — place for sleeping birds
• Scottish Gaelic: spiris — place for sleeping birds
• Serbo-Croatian: кокошињац — place for sleeping birds
• Serbo-Croatian: kokošinjac — place for sleeping birds
• Spanish: gallinero — place for sleeping birds
• Spanish: pajarera — place for sleeping birds
• Turkish: yuva — place for sleeping birds
• Ottoman Turkish: تونك (tünek) — place for sleeping birds
• Ukrainian: сі́дало (sídalo) — place for sleeping birds
• Walloon: djoke — place for sleeping birds
• Walloon: djocoe — place for sleeping birds
• Bashkir: төнәү (tönəw) — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Bashkir: ҡуныу (qunıw) — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Catalan: ajocar-se — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Czech: hřadovat — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Finnish: nukkua — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Galician: apoleirar — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• German: auf einem Ast schlafen — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• German: auf einer Stange schlafen — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• German: übernachten — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Italian: appollaiarsi — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Japanese: 就塒する (shūji suru) — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Turkish: tünemek — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Turkish: tüneklemek — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Ottoman Turkish: تونهمك (tünemek) — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
• Ottoman Turkish: تونكلمك (tüneklemek) — settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest