tuft

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /tʌft/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /tɐft/
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• rhymes with -ʌft
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• CMU ARPABET: T AH1 F T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tūfa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: кичур (kičur) — bunch
• Catalan: floc — bunch
• Chinese Mandarin: 綹 /绺 (liǔ) — bunch
• Czech: chomáč — bunch
• Czech: trs — bunch
• Czech: chocholka — bunch
• Czech: shluk — bunch
• Czech: střapec — bunch
• Dutch: pluk — bunch
• Dutch: bundel — bunch
• Esperanto: tufo — bunch
• Finnish: töyhtö — bunch
• Finnish: tupsu — bunch
• French: touffe — bunch
• Galician: guedello — bunch
• Galician: guecho — bunch
• Galician: caramiñola — bunch
• Galician: feixe — bunch
• Galician: gavela — bunch
• Galician: mostea — bunch
• Galician: topete — bunch
• German: Büschel — bunch
• German: Tuff — bunch
• Hungarian: fürt — bunch
• Hungarian: csomó — bunch
• Ido: tufo — bunch
• Irish: dual — bunch
• Irish: dlaoi — bunch
• Irish: stoth — bunch
• Italian: cespo — bunch
• Italian: ciuffo — bunch
• Italian: ciocca — bunch
• Italian: zolla — bunch
• Latin: torulus — bunch
• Macedonian: вр́зоп (vŕzop) — bunch
• Macedonian: пра́мен (prámen) — bunch
• Macedonian: сноп (snop) — bunch
• Macedonian: ки́чер (kíčer) — bunch
• Māori: pūrekireki — bunch
• Māori: puia — bunch
• Mongolian: туг (tug) — bunch
• Norman: toupet — bunch
• Norman: tun — bunch
• Norman: tus — bunch
• Polish: kępka — bunch
• Portuguese: tufo — bunch
• Romanian: smoc — bunch
• Romanian: floc — bunch
• Romanian: șuviță — bunch
• Russian: пучо́к (pučók) — bunch
• Sicilian: giummu — bunch
• Sicilian: pinnacchiu — bunch
• Sicilian: tuppu — bunch
• Spanish: mechón — bunch
• Spanish: penacho — bunch
• Spanish: manojo — bunch
• Spanish: haz — bunch
• Spanish: champa — bunch
• Swedish: tova — bunch
• Swedish: tuva — bunch
• Welsh: cudyn — bunch
• Welsh: twffyn — bunch
• Italian: fiocco — cluster of threads
• Italian: rappa — cluster of threads
• Czech: shluk — clump of trees
• Dutch: bosje — clump of trees
• Dutch: bomengroep — clump of trees
• Finnish: puska — clump of trees
• Finnish: pusikko — clump of trees
• Irish: tom — clump of trees
• Italian: macchia d'alberi — clump of trees
• Finnish: (kultainen) tupsu — gold tassel
• Italian: nappina dorata — gold tassel
• Finnish: tupsulakki — person wearing the tassel
• Czech: ozdobit střapcem — provide or decorate with tufts
• Finnish: nukittaa — provide or decorate with tufts
• Finnish: tuftata — provide or decorate with tufts
• Italian: infiocchettare — provide or decorate with tufts
• Italian: ornare di ciuffi — provide or decorate with tufts
• Italian: impennacchiare — provide or decorate with tufts
• Dutch: bundelen — form into tufts
• Finnish: nukittaa — form into tufts
• Finnish: tuftata — form into tufts
• Finnish: tuftata — secure with tufts
• Italian: trapuntare — secure with tufts
• Finnish: takkuuntua — be formed into tufts
• Italian: a forma di ciuffo — be formed into tufts