smurf

English

statuettes of smurfs

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”), either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

Pronunciation

• enPR: smûrf, IPA^(key): /smɜːf/
• enPR: smûrf, IPA^(key): /smɝf/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f

Noun

smurf (plural smurfs)

1. (comics, fiction) A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
2. (Internet slang) A smurf account.
3. (computing, security) A smurf attack.

Derived terms

• smurf account
• smurf attack
• Smurfette principle
• smurfy

 

Translations

fictional character

• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: سَنْفُور m sg (sanfūr), سَنَافِر m pl (sanāfir)
• Armenian: սմուրֆ (smurf), սմուրֆիկ pl (smurfik)
• Basque: pottoki
• Catalan: barrufet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 藍精靈／蓝精灵 (laam⁴ zing¹ ling⁴), 蓝精灵 (laam⁴ zing¹ ling⁴)

  Mandarin: 藍精靈／蓝精灵 (zh) (lánjīnglíng), 蓝精灵 (zh) (lán jīnglíng)

• Czech: šmoula (cs) m
• Danish: smølf c
• Dutch: smurf (nl)
• Esperanto: smurfo
• Estonian: smurf
• Finnish: smurffi (fi)
• French: schtroumpf (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schlumpf (de) m
• Greek: στρουμφάκι (el) n (stroumfáki)
• Hebrew: דַּרְדָּס m (dardás)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: törp (hu)
• Icelandic: strumpur (is) m
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• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: puffo (it) m
• Japanese: スマーフ (sumāfu), シュトロンフ (shutoronfu)
• Korean: 스머프 (seumeopeu)
• Limburgish: ^{(please verify)} smörf (li)
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: smurf c
• Polish: smerf (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) estrumpfe m, estrunfe m, (Brazil) smurf m
• Romanian: ștrumf m
• Russian: смурф m (smurf), штрумф m (štrumf), штрумпф m (štrumpf)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штрумф m

  Roman: štrumpf m

• Slovak: šmolko n
• Slovene: smrkec m
• Spanish: pitufo (es) m
• Swedish: smurf (sv) c
• Turkish: şirin (tr)
• Vietnamese: xì trum
• Walloon: chtroume m

Verb

smurf (third-person singular simple present smurfs, present participle smurfing, simple past and past participle smurfed)

1. (slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
2. (banking) To structure a deposit; to split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny.
3. (computing, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.

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Dutch

Etymology

Changed from the original French schtroumpf as described above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smʏrf/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: smurf
• Rhymes: -ʏrf

Noun

smurf m (plural smurfen, diminutive smurfje n)

1. (comics, fiction) smurf

Derived terms

• smurfen
• smurfendebat
• smurfentaal
• smurfin
• smurfs

 

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French

Etymology

1983: after the English name of The Smurfs, via Dutch smurf from French schtroumpf. See above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smœʁf/

Noun

smurf m (plural smurfs)

1. a sort of breakdancing

   Hypernym: breakdance

Derived terms

• smurfer

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch smurf, from French schtroumpf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɵrf/

Noun

smurf c

1. (comics, fiction) smurf

Declension

Declension of smurf

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	smurf	smurfs
	definite	smurfen	smurfens
plural	indefinite	smurfar	smurfars
	definite	smurfarna	smurfarnas

Declension of smurf

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	smurf	smurfs
	definite	smurfen	smurfens
plural	indefinite	smurfer	smurfers
	definite	smurferna	smurfernas

Interjection

1. jinx