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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch dorp. Doublet of English thorp.
Noun[edit]
dorp (plural dorps)
- (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 51:
- ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 186:
- I took on a case in the little dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 51:
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.
Noun[edit]
dorp (plural dorpe)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą. Doublet of terp.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dorp n (plural dorpen, diminutive dorpje n)
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Anagrams[edit]
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- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans nouns
- Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
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- Dutch doublets
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