Etymology
From the practice of decorating the top storey of building façades in the Attic architectural style.
Pronunciation
Noun
attic (plural attics)
- The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
- We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
Translations
space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof
- Arabic: علية (ar) (ʿillíyya) f
- Armenian: ձեղնահարկ (hy) (jeġnahark)
- Bulgarian: мансарда (bg) (mansárda) f, тавански етаж (bg) (tavánski etáž) m
- Catalan: golfes (ca) f pl; àtic (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 閣樓 (cmn), 阁楼 (cmn) (gélóu)
- Czech: půda (cs) f
- Danish: loftsrum (da)
- Dutch: zolder (nl) m
- Estonian: pööning (et)
- Finnish: vintti (fi), ullakko (fi)
- French: grenier (fr) m, combles (fr) m pl
- Georgian: მანსარდა (ka) (mansarda), სხვენი (ka) (sxveni)
- German: Dachgeschoss (de) n, Dachboden (de) m
- Greek: σοφίτα (el) (sofíta) f
- Hebrew: עליית גג (he) (aliat gag) f
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: padlás (hu)
- Icelandic: háaloft (is) n, þakhæð (is) f, loft (is) n, ris (is) n, rishæð (is) f, (informal) hanabjálki (is) m
- Ido: atiko
- Italian: soffitta (it) f
- Japanese: 屋根裏 (ja) (やねうら yaneura)
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- Jèrriais: mansarde f
- Korean: 다락방 (ko) (dalakbang)
- Malay:
- Rumi: loteng (ms)
- Jawi: لوتيڠ (ms)
- Norwegian: loft (no)
- Persian: زیرشیروانی (fa) (zir-(e)-širvâni)
- Polish: strych (pl) m, poddasze (pl) n, attyka (pl) f
- Portuguese: sótão (pt) m
- Romanian: pod (ro), mansardă (ro)
- Russian: чердак (ru) (čerdák) m, мансарда (ru) (mansárda) f
- Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-mullaich m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: таван (sh) m, поткровље (sh) n, поткровница (sh) f, мансарда (sh) f
- Roman: tavan (sh) m, potkrovlje (sh) n, potkrovnica (sh) f, mansarda (sh) f
- Spanish: ático (es) m, desván (es) m
- Swedish: vind (sv) c
- Telugu: అటక (aTaka)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: gác (vi)
- Volapük: nufalucem (vo), masadacem (vo)
- Welsh: taflod (cy) f
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