dorp
See also: Dörp
English
Etymology
From Dutch dorp. Doublet of English thorp.
Noun
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:
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Etymology
From Dutch dorp, from Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.
Pronunciation
Noun
dorp (plural dorpe, diminutive dorpie)
Descendants
- → Xhosa: idolophu
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą. Doublet of terp.
Pronunciation
Noun
dorp n (plural dorpen, diminutive dorpje n)
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