Haft

See also: haft and -haft

German

Etymology

From Middle High German haft, hafte (“captivity”), from Old High German haft, hafta. Immediately cognate with Middle Dutch hachte, Middle Low German hafte. Also related with Old English hæft, and further with Latin captus, Old Irish cacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haft/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Haft f (genitive Haft, plural (rare) Haften)

1. arrest, custody, imprisonment (the state of being confined by order of a government or ruler)
2. (dated, except in Geiselhaft) captivity (any confinement, e.g. by criminals)

Declension

Declension of Haft [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Haft	die	Haften1
genitive	einer	der	Haft	der	Haften1
dative	einer	der	Haft	den	Haften1
accusative	eine	die	Haft	die	Haften1

¹Rare.

Hyponyms

• Abschiebehaft
• Beugehaft
• Dunkelhaft
• Einzelhaft
• Erzwingungshaft
• Festungshaft
• Gefängnishaft
• Geiselhaft
• Isolationshaft
• Lagerhaft
• Präventivhaft
• Schubhaft
• Schutzhaft
• Sippenhaft
• Untersuchungshaft

 

Derived terms

• Haftbefehl
• Haftbeschwerde
• Haftentschädigung
• haftfähig
• Häftling
• Haftverschonung
• inhaftieren
• verhaften

 

Related terms

• haben
• -haft
• haften

 

Further reading

• “Haft (Arrest, Strafe)” in Duden online
• “Haft, Klammer, Verbindung” in Duden online
• “Haft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache