erg

See also: ERG and erg.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɜːɡ/
• IPA^(key): /ɝɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ɡ

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

Noun

erg (plural ergs)

1. 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

• foe (unit of energy)

Translations

unit of work or energy

• Arabic: إرج
• Belarusian: эрг m (erh)
• Bulgarian: ерг m (erg)
• Catalan: erg m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 爾格／尔格 (zh) (ěrgé)

• Esperanto: ergo
• Finnish: ergi
• Galician: erguio, ergo, erg
• Georgian: ერგი (ergi)
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• Greek: έργιο n (érgio)
• Hebrew: ארג (he)
• Japanese: エルグ (erugu)
• Kazakh: эрг m (érg)
• Macedonian: ерг m (erg)
• Persian: ارگ (fa) (arg)
• Russian: эрг (ru) m (erg)
• Spanish: ergio (es) m
• Thai: เออร์ก

Etymology 2

From French erg, from Algerian Arabic عِرْگ (ʿerg), corresponding to Modern Standard Arabic عِرْق (ʕirq).

Noun

erg (plural ergs or areg)

1. (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

erg (plural ergs)

1. (rowing, slang) An ergometer.

Verb

erg (third-person singular simple present ergs, present participle erging, simple past and past participle erged)

1. (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.

   I erg every morning.

   She erged a steady state piece.

Further reading

• Erg (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EGR, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger⁺⁶, Reg, ger, gre, reg

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (the unit of work or energy)

Etymology 2

From French erg.

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (large desert region)

Further reading

• “erg” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arch, erch, from Old Dutch *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛr(ə)x/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrx

Adjective

erg (comparative erger, superlative ergst)

1. serious, considerable, severe
2. awful, terrible

Inflection

Declension 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	—

Adverb

erg

1. very

   Het appartement was erg klein.

   The apartment was very small.

2. much; very much

   Ik haat het zo erg.

   I hate it so much.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁɡ/

Etymology 1

From Algerian Arabic عِرْگ (ʿerg), corresponding to Modern Standard Arabic عِرْق (ʕirq).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (desert region)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (unit of work done)

Anagrams

• gré

Further reading

• “erg”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from an Old Irish word.

Noun

erg n

1. a word of not entirely certain meaning, roughly shepherd's cottage or hill-pasture