smurf

English

Wikipedia

Smurfs.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: smûf, IPA: /smɜː(ɹ)f/, X-SAMPA: /sm3:(r\)f/
• (US) enPR: smûrf, IPA: /smɝf/, X-SAMPA: /sm3`f/

Etymology

From De Smurfen, Dutch (Flemish) translation of Les Schtroumpfs (1958) by Pierre Culliford, in Le Journal de Spirou (Dutch: Robbedoes).

Noun

smurf (plural smurfs)

1. A fictional character, a blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.

Derived terms

• smurfy
• smurf account

Translations

fictional character

• Catalan: barrufet (ca) m
• Czech: šmoula (cs) m
• Danish: smølf (da) c
• Dutch: smurf (nl)
• Esperanto: smurfo (eo)
• Finnish: smurffi (fi)
• French: schtroumpf (fr) m
• German: Schlumpf (de) m
• Greek: στρουμφ (el) (stroumf) n
• Hebrew: דרדס (he) (dardass) m
• Hungarian: törp (hu)
• Icelandic: strumpur (is) m

• Italian: puffo (it) m
• Korean: 스머프 (ko)
• Norwegian: smurf (no) c
• Polish: smerf (pl) m
• Portuguese: estrumpfe (pt) m, smurf (pt) m
• Romanian: ștrumf (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Штрумф (sh) m

  Roman: Štrumf (sh) m

• Spanish: pitufo (es) m
• Swedish: smurf (sv) c
• Turkish: şirin (tr)
• {{subst:jp}}: [[sukuii#Template:jp|{{Template:jp/script|lang=jp|sukuii}}]]

External links

• The Smurfs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:The Smurfs

Verb

smurf (third-person singular simple present smurfs, present participle smurfing, simple past and past participle smurfed)

1. (banking) To structure a deposit; to split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny.

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French

Noun

smurf m (plural smurfs)

1. a sort of breakdancing

Derived terms

• smurfer