Führer

See also fuhrer, Fuhrer, and führer

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowing from German Führer

Alternative forms

• Fuehrer
• Fuhrer

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfjʊərə/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

Führer (countable and uncountable; plural Führers or Führer)

1. A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant
2. (historical) Adolf Hitler when the chancellor of Nazi Germany

Translations

leader exercising the powers of a tyrant

• Arabic: (has other meanings as well) دليل (ar) (daliil) m, فيرر (ar) (fiirar) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (also: head of state) 元首 (cmn) (yuánshǒu), Führer (cmn), (leader) 領袖 (cmn), 领袖 (cmn) (lǐngxiù); 富勒爾 (cmn), 富勒尔 (cmn) (Fùlēi'ěr) (rare transliteration, also used for the surname)

• Estonian: füürer (et)
• French: Führer (fr) m

• Greek: Φύρερ (el) (Fýrer) m
• Hebrew: פיהרר (he)
• Japanese: Führer (ja), フューレル (ja) (fyūreru)
• Korean: 퓌러 (ko) (pwireo)
• Russian: фюрер (ru) (f'úrer) m
• Swedish: führer (sv) c

Adolf Hitler when chancellor

• Arabic: (has other meanings as well) دليل (ar) (daliil) m, فيرر (ar) (fiirar) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 元首 (cmn) (yuánshǒu)

• Estonian: füürer (et)
• French: Führer (fr) m
• Georgian: ფიურერი (ka) (p'iureri)
• German: Führer (de) m

• Greek: Φύρερ (el) (Fýrer) m
• Japanese: (also: president) 総統 (ja) (そうとう, sōtō), Führer (ja), フューレル (ja) (fyūreru)
• Korean: 총통 (ko) (chongtong), 퓌러 (ko) (pwireo)
• Russian: фюрер (ru) (f'úrer) m
• Swedish: Führern (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: (has other meanings as well) دليل (ar) (daliil) m, فيرر (ar) (fiirar) m
• Bulgarian: фюрер (bg) (fjúrer) m

• Hebrew: פיהרר (he)
• Korean: (also: generalissimo) 총통 (ko)

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German füerære, vüerære, füerer, vüerer, from Old High German fôrari, from Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną
Derived from the verb führen (“to lead”) + -er (“agent suffix”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈfyːʁɐ]

Noun

Führer m (genitive Führers, plural Führer)

1. guide; a person who gives directions or provides help to navigate unknown terrain (especially in compounds)
2. guide; a person who provides information about any topic
3. guidebook; a text which provides information about a topic
4. conductor, director, manager, commander; a person in charge of something or someone (especially in compounds)

   Erst war er Geschäftsführer und später wurde er Zugführer.

   First he was a (store) manager and later he became (railway) conductor.

5. (formal) driver, pilot; someone who operates a mode of transport (any kind that is not shoes or skating equipment of some sort)

   Führerschein.

   A driver's license.

6. (music) fugue theme; a melody in the form it appears in first in a fugue
7. (dated) leader; someone who determines the actions of a group

Usage notes

Führer und Reichskanzler — was the official title of Adolf Hitler after the merger of the positions of Reichspräsident (President of the German Reich) and Reichskanzler (Chancellor of the German Reich) in 1934, who was thus commonly known as der Führer (the leader).
As a reaction, the word is now often replaced with Anführer when concerning leadership and formal power.

Declension

declension of Führer

	singular			plural
m gender	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Führer	die	Führer
genitive	eines	des	Führers	der	Führer
dative	einem	dem	Führer	den	Führern
accusative	einen	den	Führer	die	Führer

Derived terms

• Anführer