droge

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See also: Droge, dröge, and drogę

Danish

Etymology

From French drogue, from Middle French circa 1462, from Middle Dutch droge (Modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

Noun

droge c (singular definite drogen, plural indefinite droger)

  1. drug, medicine (substance which promotes healing)

Inflection

Declension of droge
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative droge drogen droger drogerne
genitive droges drogens drogers drogernes

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdroː.ɣə/
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  • Hyphenation: dro‧ge
  • Rhymes: -oːɣə

Etymology 1

From droog.

Adjective

droge

  1. inflection of droog:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Noun

droge n (uncountable)

  1. dry land
    Na dagen op zee, waren ze blij om droge te zien. ― After days at sea, they were glad to see dry land.
    De schipbreukelingen zochten naar droge om te overleven. ― The castaways sought dry land for survival.
    In de verte zagen ze de droge, een teken van hoop. ― In the distance, they saw the dry land, a sign of hope.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

droge

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of drogen

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Adjective

droge

  1. inflection of drogi:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drōgi, from Proto-Germanic *draugiz.

Adjective

drôge

  1. dry
  2. plain, bare, without anything else
  3. dry, unfriendly (of a person)
  4. died off, lame, unusable (of severely diseased limbs)

Inflection

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: droog
    • Afrikaans: droog
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: droko
    • Negerhollands: droog, drok
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: dróg
    • → West Frisian: droech
  • Limburgish: druueg

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From French drogue.

Noun

droge m (definite singular drogen, indefinite plural droger, definite plural drogene)

  1. a drug (of animal or vegetable origin)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From French drogue. In the meaning of illegal narcotics is probably influenced by Swedish drog and/or English drug.

Noun

droge m (definite singular drogen, indefinite plural drogar, definite plural drogane)
droge f (definite singular droga, indefinite plural droger, definite plural drogene)

  1. a drug (of animal or vegetable origin)
    Synonym: lækjemiddel
  2. (colloquial) illegal narcotics
    Synonyms: dop, knark, narkotika

References

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