droge

See also: Droge, dröge, and drogę

Danish

Etymology

From French drogue, from Middle French circa 1462, from Middle Dutch droge (Modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /droːɡə/, [ˈd̥ʁoːwə]

Noun

droge c (singular definite drogen, plural indefinite droger)

1. drug, medicine (substance which promotes healing)

Inflection

Declension of droge

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	droge	drogen	droger	drogerne
genitive	droges	drogens	drogers	drogernes

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

droge

1. (deprecated template usage) Inflected form of droog

Verb

droge

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of drogen

Anagrams

• droeg

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɔɡʲɛ/, [ˈdrɔɡʲə]

Adjective

droge

1. inflection of drogi:
   1. nominative/accusative neuter singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drōgi, from Proto-Germanic *draugiz.

Adjective

drôge

1. dry
2. plain, bare, without anything else
3. dry, unfriendly (of a person)
4. died off, lame, unusable (of severely diseased limbs)

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• drôgen

Descendants

• Dutch: droog
• Limburgish: druueg

Further reading

• “droghe (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “droge (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French drogue

Noun

droge m (definite singular drogen, indefinite plural droger, definite plural drogene)

1. a drug (of animal or vegetable origin)

References

• “droge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “droge_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French drogue

Noun

droge m (definite singular drogen, indefinite plural drogar, definite plural drogane)
droge f (definite singular droga, indefinite plural droger, definite plural drogene)

1. a drug (of animal or vegetable origin)

References

• “droge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.