Noun
doss-house (plural doss-houses)
- A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.
- W. Besant
- They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.
Translations
sleeping-place for the homeless
- Belarusian: прыту́лак m (prytúlak), начле́жка f (načljéžka), прыю́т m (pryjút)
- Bulgarian: нощен приют m (nošten prijut), прию́т (bg) m (prijút)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 廉價旅館 / 廉价旅馆 (liánjià lǚguǎn)
- Dutch: nachtopvang (nl) m
- Finnish: yömaja (fi)
- French: asile de nuit (fr) m, asile (fr) m
- German: Absteige (de) f, Penne (de) f
- Japanese: どや (ja) (doya), 安宿 (ja) (やすやど, yasuyado)
- Nivkh: ӿуӈгуф (huŋguf)
- Persian: شبخانه (šab-xâne)
- Polish: noclegownia (pl) f
- Russian: ночле́жка (ru) f (nočléžka), ночле́жный дом m (nočléžnyj dom), прию́т (ru) m (prijút), ночно́й прию́т m (nočnój prijút)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прихватилиште n, свратиште n
- Roman: prihvatilište (sh) n, svratište (sh) n
- Spanish: albergue (es) m
- Ukrainian: приту́лок (uk) m (prytúlok), нічлі́жка (uk) f (ničlížka), прию́т (uk) m (pryjút)
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