hip roof

English

A hip roof

Noun

hip roof (plural hip roofs)

1. A roof formed from inclined, planar ends and sides, joined at their edges to form hips, the longer sides forming a ridge at the top

Synonyms

• hipped roof

Derived terms

• pyramid hip roof

Related terms

• cross-hip
• cross-hipped
• half-hip
• half-hipped

Translations

roof shape

• Finnish: aumakatto
• German: Walmdach (de) n
• Hungarian: kontytető (hu)
• Russian: четырёхска́тная кры́ша f (četyrjoxskátnaja krýša), ва́льмовая кры́ша f (válʹmovaja krýša), шатро́вая кры́ша f (šatróvaja krýša)
• Thai: ปั้นหยา (th)