hoidla
Hoidla is a term in Estonian used to denote spaces or facilities for keeping things. The primary sense is a storage facility, depository, or place of safekeeping. It can refer to physical structures such as warehouses, depots, archives, storage rooms, or lockups, as well as to sections within buildings designated for keeping equipment or documents. In everyday language, hoidla may refer to any place where items are temporarily or permanently stored.
In modern Estonian, the word also appears in compound forms for digital storage. For example, andmehoidla means
In archival science and library and information science, hoidla describes controlled storage environments and facilities designed
Grammatically, hoidla is a neuter noun; the plural is hoidlad. The etymology traces to the Estonian verb
See also: storage, repository, archive, safekeeping, data store, andmehoidla, dokumentide hoidla.