rauf

See also: Rauf and rauf-

German

Etymology

Contraction of herauf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaʊf/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adverb

rauf

1. (colloquial) up, up here, upstairs (towards the speaker)

   Synonyms: herauf, empor, hoch

   Er kommt jetzt rauf. -- He's coming upstairs now.

2. (colloquial) up, up there, upstairs (away from the speaker)

   Synonyms: hinauf, empor, hoch

   Er geht rauf zu den andern. -- He's going upstairs to the other people.

Usage notes

Unlike the standard language, colloquial German does not distinguish the meanings of hinauf (“up there, away from the speaker”) and herauf (“up here, up towards the speaker”). Rauf is used for both meanings.

Derived terms

• rauf-

Related terms

• hinab, hinunter
• herab, herunter
• runter

Further reading

• “rauf” in Duden online

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse rauf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrœiːv]
• Rhymes: -øyːv

Noun

rauf f (genitive singular raufar, nominative plural raufar)

1. rift, gap, slot

Declension

Declension of rauf (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rauf	raufin	raufar	raufarnar
accusative	rauf	raufina	raufar	raufarnar
dative	rauf	raufinni	raufum	raufunum
genitive	raufar	raufarinnar	raufa	raufanna

Derived terms

• nafarsrauf

Related terms

• rjúfa
• rof

See also

• rifa
• rífa

Anagrams

• fura

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• rof

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raubō.

Noun

rauf f

1. a gap, a rift, a hole

   Raufar himins.

   The sluices of heaven.

Derived terms

• bakrauf
• gotrauf
• himinraufar
• raufarsteinn (a stone with a hole drilled through it)
• raufartrefjur (a cloth riddled with holes)

Descendants

• Icelandic: rauf
• Faroese: reyv
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ræv, rauv
• Norwegian Bokmål: ræv
• Swedish: röv
• Danish: røv

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “rauf”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German hēraf (“downwards”) with loss of the initial syllable. Cognate to German herab.

Adverb

rauf

1. down, downwards

   Antonym: nopp