Hammock

Etymology
From hamaca:, from. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

Noun

 * 1) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
 * 2) *1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
 * ...the poore ſaylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies...
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Derived terms

 * hammock nettings (Nautical) formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; later, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

Translations

 * Albanian: shtrat i varur
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ճոճ (čoč)
 * Bulgarian: хамак (khamak)
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hængekøje
 * Dutch:
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 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ערסל (arsal)
 * Hindi: दो खूँटियों से बंधा जालीदार झूला
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: hamaca
 * Isthmus Zapotec: guixhe
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ハンモック (hanmokku)
 * Korean: 해먹 (haemeok)
 * Lao:
 * Latin: lectulus pensilis


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: hamakas
 * Macedonian: лежалка
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: بانوج
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: visaljka
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: hamaca, hamaca paraguaya
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: கித்தான்கட்டில் (kittankattil)
 * Thai: (bplay yuan)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, підвісне ліжко
 * Vietnamese:
 * Ukrainian:, підвісне ліжко
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vietnamese:

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