Danish–English dictionary

håndvask

A basin used for holding water for washing.

håndvægt

A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.

håndværk

(countable, plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation [since the 9th century].

håndværker

A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.

handyr

One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.

håne

(transitive) To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance.

hanekam

A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.

hanekylling

A young male chicken.

hangar

A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept.

hangås

A male goose.

hanhest

A male horse kept primarily as a stud.

hanhund

A mammal of the family Canidae:

hankat

The male of the domesticated cat, especially if not neutered.

hankinesere

(uncountable, collective) The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.

hankøn

(of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.

Hanna

(biblical character) Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.

Hannah

A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname:

Hanoi

The capital city of Vietnam.

hanplante

A plant of the masculine sex.

hanrej

A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.

hans

Belonging to him. [from 8th c.]

har man set

An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).

Harald

A en given name.

hårbørste

A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair

hård

Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.

hårdfør

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

hårdknude

A difficult situation.

hårdnakket

Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

hårdtarbejdende

Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.

hardware

(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.

hare

(uncountable) The meat from this animal.

håret

Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.

hårfin

Of an argument or concept, words, etc.: requiring one to distinguish between fine points, especially if it is difficult to do so; nice; also (generally) , difficult to grasp; not easily understood or obvious.

harke

(transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.

harlekin

A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes, used as a stock character in commedia dell'arte and other genres.

harlekinade

A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.

harme

Anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one or one's group has been wronged or betrayed by others; indignation.

harmløs

Harmless; producing no ill effect.

harmonika

A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).

hårnet

A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.

harnisk

A full set of armour.

harpe

(music, colloquial) Any musical instrument.

hårpisk

(now, _, historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. [from 18th c.]

harpun

A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.

harpy

(mythological creature) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.

hårsbredde

(colloquial) The (very small) distance between two things.

harsk

(of oily or fatty food) Rank in taste or smell.

hårtørrer

(chiefly, _, UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

harve

A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.

hasard

An activity characterized by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.

hase

(anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

hash

(slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

hashish

The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.

hashtag

(typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

hasp

(countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.

hassel

(countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

hasselnød

The fruit of the hazel, especially Corylus avellana, which is grown commercially.

hast

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

hastighed

The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.

hat

(headwear) A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

hattrick

(by extension, sports) Three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc., such as three consecutive wins.

haubits

A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.

haussespekulant

(finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

haussist

(finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

hav

The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

Havana

The capital city of Cuba.

havbund

The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.

have

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

have brug for

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.

have fiasko

(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

have lyst

To decide to act in a certain way.

have mulighed for

Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

have noget imod

(chiefly, in the imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]

have ondt i røven

(Internet slang, slightly, vulgar) Overly annoyed or bothered by a perceived insult or injustice; needlessly offended.

have råd til

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually, after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.

have til hensigt

(ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

havearbejde

(intransitive) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

havebrug

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

havelåge

(typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

havfrue

A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.

havgående

Made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas.

havmand

A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.

havn

(countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.

havre

(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

havregrød

A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.

havregryn

Meal made from rolled or round oats.

havvand

The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.

Hawaii

(specifically) An island of Hawaii archipelago, Pacific Ocean, of Hawaii County, State of Hawaii, United States. The largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

hawaiianer

(countable) A descendant of the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to European contact.

hawaiiansk

(of a person) Descended from the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to European contact.

hawaiigås

The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

hæder

Praise; accolades.

hæfte

A booklet for students, containing either problems or exercises, and blank, often lined pages for writing answers.

hæfteklamme

A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.

hæftemaskine

A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper.

hæftestraf

(uncountable) Confinement in prison.

hægte

A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.

hæk

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

hækle

(sewing) A form of needlework that is made by looping thread with a hooked needle.

hælde

(transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.

hælde ned

(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell. [from 16th c.]

hæler

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

hæmmelyd

(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

hæmmer

(chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.

hæmningsløs

Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.

hæmoride

(pathology, often, in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

hæmorroide

(pathology, often, in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

hæmsko

Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.

hænde

(transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.

hændelse

An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

hænge

(transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

hænge ned

(now, literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.

hængedynd

(figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.

hængekøje

A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

hængelås

A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle

hængsel

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

hær

The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.

hærværk

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

hæs

Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.

hætte

A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

hætteklædt

Wearing a hood.

hævd

(legal) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.

hævdelse

(legal) Child support.

hævdvundet

(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

hæve

(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

hæveautomat

(banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.

hævelse

Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

hævn

Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.

hævngerrig

Vindictive or wanting vengeance.

heat

(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.

hebraisk

Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

Hebræerbrevet

(biblical) The nineteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to the Hebrews.

Hebræerne

(biblical) The nineteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to the Hebrews.

hebræisk

Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

Hebriderne

The islands off the west coast of Scotland, divided into the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides.

hed

A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.

hede

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

hedebølge

(countable) A hot spell.

hedelyng

A plant in the family Ericaceae.

heden

(archaic) From here, from this place, away.

hedensk

Pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry.

hedenskab

Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.

hedning

An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry.

hedonisme

(ethics, uncountable) The philosophical belief that happiness, particularly sensual pleasure, is the highest good in life.

hedonistisk

Devoted to pleasure

Hedvig

A en given name.

heftig

(slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.

hegemoni

(formal) Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.

hegn

(figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

heile

To greet with a Sieg Heil.