aft

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /æft/

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• Rhymes: -æft

From Old English æftan (“behind”); originally superlative of of (“off”). See after.

aft (usually uncountable, plural afts)

1. (nautical) The stern portion of a vessel.

aft (comparative further aft or more aft, superlative furthest aft or most aft)

1. (nautical) At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).

• abaft, astern

• fore, forward

• after, fore-and-aft

aft (comparative further aft or more aft, superlative furthest aft or most aft)

1. located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane

Clipping of afternoon.

aft (plural afts)

1. (dated slang) Alternative form of afternoon: the time of day from noon until early evening.
   • 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, p. 27:

     A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

• ATF, FAT, FTA, TAF, TFA, fat, taf

• aftë
• Arbëreshë: aht
• North Gheg: ohtë, avtë, taftë

From Proto-Albanian *aweita, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₁- (compare Ancient Greek ἀῦτμη (aûtmē) ‘breath’, Welsh awel ‘breeze’).[1][2]

aft m (indefinite plural afte, definite singular afti, definite plural aftet)

1. draft (wind, bellows)
2. waft, whiff
3. warmth from a fire

• shkulm

• afsh, avë

• afte

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἄφθα (áphtha). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ɑft/

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• Hyphenation: aft
• Rhymes: -ɑft

aft f (plural aften, diminutive aftje n)

1. aphtha (a sore in the mucous membrane of the mouth).

• oft

From Old English oft.

• IPA^(key): /aft/, /ɑft/

aft (comparative after, superlative aftest)

1. often
   • 1786, Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough:

     The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

From French aphte

aft (definite accusative afdı, plural aftlar)

1. aphtha

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• aft in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu