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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Kraus.
Proper noun
Kraus
- A surname
Derived terms
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kraus m anim (female equivalent Krausová)
- a male surname from German
Declension
Declension of Kraus (hard masculine animate)
Further reading
- “Kraus”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
German
Etymology
From kraus (“curly-haired”).
Proper noun
Kraus m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kraus' or (with an article) Kraus, feminine genitive Kraus, plural Kraus or Krausens)
- a surname transferred from the nickname
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kraus m pers (female equivalent Krausová)
- a male surname from German
Declension
Declension of
Kraus (pattern
chlap)
Further reading
- “Kraus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024