Schiff

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schiff.

Proper noun

Schiff (plural Schiffs)

1. A surname from German
   • 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The resolution accuses Schiff of misleading the American people while pursuing the congressional investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign as the then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and for actions Schiff took leading up to the former president’s first impeachment. Schiff has dismissed the allegations as “false and defamatory.”

   1. A Jewish surname from Yiddish [in turn from German]

Derived terms

• Schiff base

Translations

Translations

• French: Schiff (fr)
• German: Schiff (de)
• Yiddish: שיף (Schiff)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schiff.

Proper noun

Schiff m or f by sense

1. Schiff: a surname from German
   1. a Jewish surname from Yiddish [in turn from German]

German

Etymology

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif (“ship, barrel, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship, hollow object”). The sense “nave” is a semantic loan from Latin nāvis.

Cognate with Low German Schipp, West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, Yiddish שיף (shif), English ship, Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

Proper noun

Schiff m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schiffs or (with an article) Schiff, feminine genitive Schiff, plural Schiffs)

1. Schiff: a surname originating as an occupation The occupational surname taken up by mariners and boatmen.
   1. a Jewish surname from Yiddish [in turn from German]

Descendants

• → English: Schiff
• → French: Schiff
• → Yiddish: שיף (Schiff)

Noun

Schiff n (strong, genitive Schiffes or Schiffs, plural Schiffe, diminutive Schiffchen n or Schifflein n)

1. (nautical) ship

   Synonym: Boot

2. (architecture) nave [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: Kirchenschiff, Langhaus

3. (informal) a large, unwieldy car (e.g. an SUV)
4. (obsolete) vessel (for holding fluids)

   Synonym: Gefäß

5. (dated, regional) boiler (metal container for boiling water in some old stoves and ovens)

   Synonym: Wasserschiff

6. (printing) galley (tray)

   Synonym: Setzschiff

Declension

Declension of Schiff [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Schiff	die	Schiffe
genitive	eines	des	Schiffes, Schiffs	der	Schiffe
dative	einem	dem	Schiff, Schiffe1	den	Schiffen
accusative	ein	das	Schiff	die	Schiffe

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• schiffbar
• schiffen

Related terms

• Außenschiff
• Containerschiff
• Fährschiff
• Flussschiff
• Frachtschiff
• Handelsschiff
• Hauptschiff
• Kirchenschiff
• Kontainerschiff
• Kreuzfahrtschiff
• Kreuzschiff
• Kriegsschiff
• Küstenschiff
• Langschiff
• Längsschiff
• Nebenschiff
• Passagierschiff
• Querschiff
• Reiseschiff
• Schiffahrt
• Schiffbruch
• Schifffahrt
• Schiffsanker
• Schiffsbesatzung
• Schiffshebewerk
• Schiffsheck
• Schiffskapitän
• Schiffsreise
• Schiffsrumpf
• Schiffsverkehr
• schippern
• Segelschiff
• Seitenschiff
• Setzschiff
• Skipper
• Traumschiff
• Wasserschiff
• Wüstenschiff

Descendants

• → Czech: šíf

Further reading

• Schiff on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Schiff” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schiff” in Duden online
• “Schiff” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Schiff” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Schiff”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Schiff”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2025

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃif/
• Rhymes: -if
• Syllabification: Schiff

Noun

Schiff n (plural Schiff)

1. ship

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Schiff”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch