dunkel

From German dunkel (“dark”).

dunkel (countable and uncountable, plural dunkels)

1. A type of dark German lager, typically ranging in color from amber to dark reddish brown, and characterized by its smooth malty flavor.
   • 1994, A Stomach for Dissent: The Life of Raymond Postgate, 1896-1971, Keele University Press, page 168:

     I drank dunkel export beer in the Bier Halle where all the girls were called Therese;

   • 1997, The New Brewer, page 120:

     Recently, for instance, he brewed all dunkels for a period, only with different yeast strains.

   • 2008, The Beer Book, DK, page 104:

     Bavarian dunkels are deep reddish-brown in colour.

   • 2014, Gavin D. Smith, Beer: A Global History (The Edible Series), Reaktion Books, →ISBN:

     Dunkels tend to be moderately hopped, made using dark malts, and offer malty, toffee, chocolate flavours. While weissbiers, helles and dunkels are not actually indigenous to Germany, altbier has its origins around the city of Düsseldorf, […].

• Dunkel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔˀŋɡl̩/

dunkel (neuter dunkelt, plural and definite singular attributive dunkle, comparative dunklere, superlative (predicative) dunklest, superlative (attributive) dunkleste)

1. dark (with connotations of sinisterness)

• dunkelhed

• “dunkel” in Den Danske Ordbog

• dunckel, tunckel, tunkel (obsolete)

From Middle High German tunkel, from Old High German tunkal, tuncal (“dark”), from Proto-Germanic *dunkalaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʷ- (“to smoke, fume”). The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dunker, also dunkel). Cognate to Dutch donker (“dark”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʊŋkəl/, ,

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dunkel (strong nominative masculine singular dunkler, comparative dunkler or (alternatively in Austria) dünkler, superlative am dunkelsten)

1. (of light, colour) dark

   Antonym: hell

   Im Winter wird es früher dunkel.

   In the winter, it gets dark earlier.

   Das dunkle Rot gefällt mir besser.

   I like the dark red better.

2. (of sound) deep

   Synonym: tief

   Antonyms: hell, hoch

   Er hat schon eine ganz dunkle Stimme.

   He’s already got a very deep voice.

3. (of memory, ideas) vague, faint

   Ich habe nur dunkle Erinnerungen an meine Großmutter.

   I have only faint memories of my grandmother.

• The comparative form dünkler is an equal variant of dunkler in Austrian German.

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• Without contractions (now nonstandard and extremely rare):

dunkel

1. inflection of dunkeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

• “dunkel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “dunkel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “dunkel” in Duden online

From Low German (compare Middle Low German dunker, also dunkel). Cognate to Dutch donker (“dark”).

1=t
2=dunkle
3=dunklere
4=dunklest
5=dunkleste

dunkel

1. dark
2. unclear, uncertain
3. mysterious, obscure

• dunkel in Bokmålsordboka

Compare German dunkel, Dutch donker.

dunkel

1. dark

• finschder

dunkel

1. dark
2. cloudy
3. bleak
4. dim
5. murky
6. obscure
7. sombre

• Dunkelheit

Borrowed from German dunkel, from Proto-Germanic *dunkalaz. Cognate with Old Norse døkkr.

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dunkel (comparative dunklare, superlative dunklast)

1. dark, dim
2. (figurative) obscure, opaque, abstruse
3. (figurative) dubious

dunkel n

1. darkness, dimness
2. obscurity

• vara höljt i dunkel

• dunkel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dunkel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dunkel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)