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German
Etymology
From Middle High German urloup. Related to erlauben.
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Urlaub m (strong, genitive Urlaubes or Urlaubs, plural Urlaube)
- holiday, vacation
2021 October 17, Claudius Prößer, quoting Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, “Berliner Flughafenchef über den BER: „Fliegen wird teurer werden“”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:Fliegen wird teurer. Aber die Menschen wollen weiterhin reisen, Urlaub machen, Familien und Freunde besuchen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dated) leave
1930–1943, Robert Musil, “Ein geniales Rennpferd reift die Erkenntnis, ein Mann ohne Eigenschaften zu sein”, in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften [The Man Without Qualities], Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, published 1957, page 48:[…] ; und da es schließlich, wenn schon Fußballspieler und Pferde Genie haben, nur noch der Gebrauch sein kann, den man von ihm macht, was einem für die Rettung der Eigenheit übrigbleibt, beschloß er, sich ein Jahr Urlaub von seinem Leben zu nehmen, um eine angemessene Anwendung seiner Fähigkeiten zu suchen.- Because apparently, if even football players and horses are genious, the only thing you are left when you save your uniqueness is the use you are put to, he decided to take leave of his life, to find an appropriate application for his abilities.
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