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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɝɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Etymology 1[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Noun[edit]
erg (plural ergs)
- The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules.
Derived terms[edit]
- foe (unit of energy)
Translations[edit]
unit of work or energy
Etymology 2[edit]
From French erg, from Algerian Arabic, from Arabic عِرْق (ʿirq).
Noun[edit]
- (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
Etymology 3[edit]
Shortening.
Noun[edit]
erg (plural ergs)
Verb[edit]
erg (third-person singular simple present ergs, present participle erging, simple past and past participle erged)
- (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
- I erg every morning.
- She erged a steady state piece.
Further reading[edit]
Erg (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).
Noun[edit]
erg m (plural ergs)
- erg (the unit of work or energy)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
erg m (plural ergs)
- erg (large desert region)
Further reading[edit]
- “erg” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch arch, erch, from Old Dutch *arg, from Proto-West Germanic *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
erg (comparative erger, superlative ergst)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of erg | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
uninflected | erg | |||
inflected | erge | |||
comparative | erger | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | erg | erger | het ergst het ergste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | erge | ergere | ergste |
n. sing. | erg | erger | ergste | |
plural | erge | ergere | ergste | |
definite | erge | ergere | ergste | |
partitive | ergs | ergers | — |
Descendants[edit]
- → Caribbean Javanese: èreg
Adverb[edit]
erg
- very
- Het appartement was erg klein.
- The apartment was very small.
- Het appartement was erg klein.
- much; very much
- Ik haat het zo erg.
- I hate it so much.
- Ik haat het zo erg.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Algerian Arabic, from Arabic عِرْق (ʿirq).
Noun[edit]
erg m (plural ergs)
- erg (desert region)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Noun[edit]
erg m (plural ergs)
- erg (unit of work done)
Anagrams[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “erg”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from an Old Irish word, probably airghe (“hill pasture”).
Noun[edit]
erg n
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
erg m (plural ergi)
Declension[edit]
Declension of erg
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
erg m (plural ergs)
Further reading[edit]
- “erg”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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