Dorf
See also: dorf
German
Etymology
From Middle High German dorf, from Old High German dorf, thorph, from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.
Doublet of Truppe (English troop). Cognate with Old Dutch thorp (modern Dutch dorp), Old Saxon thorp, Old English þorp (archaic English thorp).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔrf/, [dɔʁf], [dɔrf], [dɔɐ̯f], [dɔːf]
- In parts of western Germany, the /f/ is commonly voiced to /v/ in derivatives from placenames (like Düsseldorfer, düsseldorfisch), but not in forms of the common noun.
- Rhymes: -ɔʁf
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Noun
Dorf n (strong, genitive Dorfes or Dorfs, plural Dörfer, diminutive Dörfchen n or Dörflein n)
- village (rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)
- 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551:
- Vor ihnen lag das Dorf mit seinen Strohdächern und dem niedrigen, stumpfen Kirchturm.
- In front of them was the village with its thatched roofs and the small, flat church steeple.
- 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551:
- (figurative) backwater (remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.)
Declension
Hyponyms
- Bundesdorf, Kirchendorf, Kuhdorf, Runddorf, Rundlingsdorf (= Rundling), Straßendorf
Derived terms
Related terms
- Dorfanger, Dorffest, Dorfmitte, Dorfplatz, Dorftratsch, Dorfältester
- die Kirche im Dorf lassen, böhmische Dörfer, über die Dörfer
Further reading
- “Dorf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Dorf” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Dorf” in Duden online
Dorf on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Dorf” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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