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English
Proper noun
the Farm
- (UK, slang) Broadwater Farm, an area of Tottenham, North London, England.
2020, Jac Shreeves-Lee, Broadwater:And before you mention the plans to fix up the Farm, let me tell you, all that regeneration talk is just about bulldozing the place and shipping us all out to God knows where.
East Central German
Noun
Farm
- plural of Farb
Further reading
2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40: - Pfarrer Wild'sche und einige andre Gedichte, P. 31
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /farm/, , ,
- Hyphenation: Farm
Etymology 1
19th century, from English farm, which see. The feminine gender may have been influenced by related French ferme f and/or by the synonym Zucht f.
Noun
Farm f (genitive Farm, plural Farmen)
- farm (see usage notes)
- Synonyms: Hof, Bauernhof
- (in compounds) a farm that specialises in a particular agricultural product
- Synonym: (with livestock) Zucht
Usage notes
- Most typically used of large farms in (former) colonial regions such as the Americas. Then also used of large or highly industrialised farms elsewhere. Use for smaller, more traditional farms is uncommon, especially with reference to the German-speaking countries or central Europe.
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the main lemma.
Noun
Farm m (strong, genitive Farmes or Farms, no plural)
- Obsolete form of Farn.
Etymology 3
From Middle High German varm, from Old High German farm (“a fast boat, skiff”), from Proto-Germanic *farmaz (“ferry, ship's lading, cargo, arrival”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go across, traverse”). Cognate with Old English farm (“cargo, freight”), Old Norse farmr (“load, lading”), Dutch varem. Doublet of Prahm, a Slavic loan.
Noun
Farm m (strong, genitive Farmes or Farms, plural Farme)
- (obsolete) barque, small boat
- Synonyms: Kahn, (archaic) Nachen
Declension
Further reading
- “Farm” in Duden online
- “Farm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache