doss-house

See also: dosshouse

English

doss +‎ house

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.

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: 廉價之旅館／廉价之旅馆 (liánjià zhī 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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