Stirn

See also: stirn

German

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Stirn

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Alternative forms

Stirne (dated)

Etymology

From Middle High German stirne, from Old High German stirna, from Proto-West Germanic *stirniju.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃtɪʁn/, [ʃtɪʁn], [ʃtɪɐ̯n]
Rhymes: -ɪʁn
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Noun

Stirn f (genitive Stirn, plural Stirnen)

(anatomy) forehead, brow (often used as an indicator of emotion)
"Geht es gut?", fragte sie mit gefurchten Stirn.
"Are you okay?" she asked, her brow furrowed.
(entomology) frons
- 1994 April 9, Hans-Peter Tschorsnig and Benno Herting, "Die Raupenfliegen (Diptera: Tachinidae) Mitteleuropas":
  So haben die ♂ zum Beispiel meist eine schmalere Stirn und längere Vorderkrallen als die ♀ […]
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Declension

Declension of Stirn [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Stirn	die	Stirnen
genitive	einer	der	Stirn	der	Stirnen
dative	einer	der	Stirn	den	Stirnen
accusative	eine	die	Stirn	die	Stirnen

Derived terms

Stirnseite f (“front (of a structure); gable end”)

Further reading

“Stirn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Stirn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Stirn” in Duden online
Stirn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Stirn”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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