halda

Borrowed from German Halde.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦalda]

halda f

1. slag heap

   Synonyms: výsypka, odval

2. (programming) heap (data structure made of trees)
3. (programming) heap (large pool of unused memory)

• “halda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “halda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “halda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• “halda”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

halda (third person singular past indicative helt, third person plural past indicative hildu, supine hildið)

1. to hold
2. to think, to say

   eg haldi, at...

   I think, that...

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhalta/

  Rhymes: -alta

halda (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hélt, third-person plural past indicative héldu, supine haldið)

1. to hold (+ dative)

   Hún hélt barninu þétt að sér.

   She held the baby close.

2. to think (have an opinion)

   Já, ég held það.

   Yes, I think so.

   Nei, ég held ekki.

   No, I don't think so.

   Heldurðu að útvarpið sé bilað?

   Do you think the radio's broken?

• halde
• haill, håill, håll, hoillj, håillj, hoill (Trøndelag dialect)

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną. Akin to English hold.

• IPA^(key): /²hɑldɑ/

halda (present tense held, past tense heldt, supine halde, past participle halden, present participle haldande, imperative hald or haldt)

1. to hold

   Kva held du på?

   What are you holding?

halda fram

1. to continue

halda seg

1. to endure, keep

   Kor lenge held denne mjølka seg?

   How long will this milk keep?

   Eg må på do. Eg klarer ikkje å halda meg lenger.

   I need the toilet. I can not keep it in any longer.

halda til

1. to stay somewhere, be somewhere

   Han held til i ei hytte i skogen.

   He is staying in a cabin in the woods.

• holde (Bokmål)

• “halda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

halda (singular past indicative helt, plural past indicative heldu, past participle haldinn)

1. to hold

• Icelandic: halda
• Faroese: halda
• Norn: halda
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halda
• Old Swedish: halda, holda, halla
  • Swedish: hålla, hall (dialectal)
• Danish: holde
  • Norwegian Bokmål: holde
• Old Gutnish: halda
  • Gutnish: halde, alde, hald', halda

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “halda”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• holda, halla

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

halda

1. to hold
2. to keep
3. to guard, defend

• Swedish: hålla, hall (dialectal)

Doublet of falda, which see. The form shows the regular shift f → h.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalda/ [ˈal̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -alda
• Syllabification: hal‧da

halda f (plural haldas)

1. skirt
2. a kind of sack

• “halda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024