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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German dorf, from Old High German dorf, thorph, from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.
Doublet of Truppe (English troop). Cognate with Old Dutch thorp (modern Dutch dorp), Old Saxon thorp, Old English þorp (archaic English thorp).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /dɔrf/, [dɔʁf], [dɔrf], [dɔɐ̯f], [dɔːf]
- In parts of western Germany, the /f/ is commonly voiced to /v/ in derivatives from placenames (like Düsseldorfer, düsseldorfisch), but not in forms of the common noun.
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʁf
Noun[edit]
Dorf n (strong, genitive Dorfes or Dorfs, plural Dörfer, diminutive Dörfchen n or Dörflein n)
- village (rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)
- 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551:
- Vor ihnen lag das Dorf mit seinen Strohdächern und dem niedrigen, stumpfen Kirchturm.
- In front of them was the village with its thatched roofs and the small, flat church steeple.
- 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551:
- (figurative) backwater (remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Dorf [neuter, strong]
Hyponyms[edit]
- Bergdorf (“mountain village”)
- Bundesdorf
- Feriendorf (“holiday village”)
- Fischerdorf
- Geisterdorf (“ghost village”)
- Haufendorf
- Hufendorf
- Kirchendorf
- Kuhdorf
- Museumsdorf
- Potemkinsches Dorf
- Reihendorf
- Runddorf
- Rundlingsdorf
- Straßendorf
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- Dorfanger, Dorffest, Dorfkrug, Dorfmitte, Dorfplatz, Dorftratsch, Dorfältester, Dorfvorsteher
- die Kirche im Dorf lassen, böhmische Dörfer, über die Dörfer
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “Dorf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Dorf” in Duden online
- “Dorf” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Dorf” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Dorf on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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