sheepfold

English

a sheepfold next to Strans Gill (Yorkshire, England).

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep +‎ fold.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːp.fəʊld/
• Rhymes: -iːpfəʊld

Noun

sheepfold (plural sheepfolds)

1. An enclosure for keeping sheep.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:

     If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.

2. A flock of sheep.

Translations

enclosure

• Bulgarian: коша́ра (bg) f (košára)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羊圈 (zh) (yángjuān)

• Czech: ovčín (cs) m
• Dutch: schapenstal (nl) m, schaapskooi (nl) f
• Finnish: lammaskarsina
• French: bergerie (fr) f
• Friulian: tamar m, cjôt m
• German: Schafstall (de) m, Schafhürde (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂 n (awistr)
• Hittite: 𒀀𒊭𒀀𒌋𒅈 (a-ša-a-u-ar)
• Hungarian: juhakol (hu)
• Irish: cró caorach m
• Italian: ovile (it) m, pecorile (it) m
• Japanese: 羊小屋 (ひつじごや, hitsujigoya)
• Latin: ovīle n
• Macedonian: трло n (trlo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sauefold m, sauegard, saueinnhegning m or f, saueinngjerding m or f

• Ottoman Turkish: ماندره (mandra)
• Polish: owczarnia (pl) f, koszara f
• Portuguese: aprisco m, redil (pt) m
• Romanian: stână (ro) f, țarc (ro) n, oierie (ro) f
• Romansch: uigl da nursas m, stalla da nursas f
• Russian: овча́рня (ru) f (ovčárnja), заго́н для ове́ц m (zagón dlja ovéc), коша́ра (ru) f (košára)
• Sicilian: mànnira (scn) f
• Slovak: ovčiareň f, ovčinec m
• Spanish: aprisco (es) m, majada (es) f, redil (es) m
• Swedish: fårfålla c
• Ukrainian: коша́ра (uk) f (košára), вівча́рня (uk) f (vivčárnja)
• Volapük: jipacek (vo)
• Welsh: corlan f, defeity m