kloof
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch kloof (“ravine”) (South Africa). Doublet of clove.
Pronunciation
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Noun
kloof (plural kloofs)
- (South Africa) A deep glen or ravine.
- 1901, William Thomas Black, The Fish River bush, South Africa, and its wild animals:
- Forming the south boundary of the valley is a range of disrupted bushy hills, with intervening deep and rugged kloofs and ravines, which constituted the retreat of Jan Pockbaas and his rebel banditti.
- 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, 1987, Chapter 1,
- The grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. It holds the rain and the mist, and they seep into the ground, feeding the streams in every kloof.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, page 172:
- Occasionally the narrow dirt road rose above the mist on the slopes of the high round hills, from where one looked down on the silver clouds in the valleys and kloofs below, a magical, incredible sight.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “kloof”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
kloof (plural klowe)
Etymology 2
Verb
kloof (present kloof, present participle klowende, past participle gekloof)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch clove, see klieven.
Noun
kloof f (plural kloven, diminutive kloofje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
kloof
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of kloven
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of kloven
Verb
kloof
Verb
kloof
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