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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlʌmpən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.
Adjective
[edit]lumpen
- Of or relating to social outcasts.
- 2014, Roberto Bolaño (tr. Natasha Wimmer), A Little Lumpen Novelita (2014 English of 2002 book):
- A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]
- 2014, Roberto Bolaño (tr. Natasha Wimmer), A Little Lumpen Novelita (2014 English of 2002 book):
- Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
- Plebeian.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Noun
[edit]lumpen (plural lumpens)
- A member of the lumpenproletariat.
Etymology 2
[edit]From lump + -en (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]lumpen (not comparable)
- Lump-like.
- 1968, Stanley Kubrick, Playboy magazine interview, September 1968, page 94:
- [About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
- 2000, Joanne Morra, Mark Robson, Marquard Smith, The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, →ISBN, page 72:
- This something, which is neither body nor machine but interior and alien to them both, pertains to the 'meat' in Gibson's world insofar as the 'meat' - that useless corporeal remainder discarded by the machine - retains an excess that cannot be reduced to the lumpen mass of fleshy existence.
- 2001, Adrian Beard, Texts and Contexts: Introducing Literature and Language Study, →ISBN:
- Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the mere lumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg.
- 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 17:
- Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque.
- 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian[1]:
- a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.
- 1968, Stanley Kubrick, Playboy magazine interview, September 1968, page 94:
Etymology 3
[edit]From lump + -en (verbal suffix).
Verb
[edit]lumpen (third-person singular simple present lumpens, present participle lumpening, simple past and past participle lumpened)
- (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy
- 1959, Harold Uriel Ribalow, The chosen, page 298:
- They had chicken soup with the matzo meal balls a little lumpened by hurry, challah, roast chicken, kasha, honey-cake.
Anagrams
[edit]Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]lumpen
- past participle of limpan
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lumpen m (plural lumpeni)
Declension
[edit]Declension of lumpen
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) lumpen | lumpenul | (niște) lumpeni | lumpenii |
genitive/dative | (unui) lumpen | lumpenului | (unor) lumpeni | lumpenilor |
vocative | lumpenule | lumpenilor |
References
[edit]- lumpen in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]lumpen m (plural lúmpenes)
Further reading
[edit]- “lumpen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Lumpen (“cloth, rag”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lumpen (comparative lumpnare, superlative lumpnast)
- low, mean (mean in an uncalled-for, often petty way)
- Att utelämna Nisse som medförfattare till boken är riktigt lumpet av honom
- To leave out Nisse as co-author of the book is really low of him
- paltry, lousy (insignificant)
- En lumpen femtiolapp var allt jag fick som tack
- A paltry 50 kronor bill was all I got as thanks
Declension
[edit]Inflection of lumpen | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | lumpen | lumpnare | lumpnast |
Neuter singular | lumpet | lumpnare | lumpnast |
Plural | lumpna | lumpnare | lumpnast |
Masculine plural3 | lumpne | lumpnare | lumpnast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | lumpne | lumpnare | lumpnaste |
All | lumpna | lumpnare | lumpnaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Noun
[edit]lumpen c
- (informal) military service
- Synonym: militärtjänstgöring
- göra lumpen ― to do military service
- ligga i lumpen ― to do military service
Related terms
[edit]- lumpare (“conscript doing military service”)
See also
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