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See also: graaf, Graf, gráf, and -graf

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From German Graf (count). Doublet of graaf and grave.

Noun

graf (plural grafs)

  1. (uncommon, now historical) A German or Austrian count.
    • 1843 February, "Graf de Tropp", in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 27, :
      Without ceremony, the Graf, on his entering the drawing-room, seated himself at the piano-forte, and proposed affording his new friends "a leetle example" how music was performed in Hungary.
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Phonetic respelling of clipping of paragraph.

Noun

graf (plural grafs)

  1. (journalism, slang) A paragraph.
    • 2010 January 27, Matt Taibbi, “Populism: Just Like Racism!”, in True/Slant, archived from the original on 2013-01-19:
      Brooks lays out the crux of his case his case in his first three grafs of his article:

Etymology 3

Noun

graf (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of graff (graffiti)
    • 2002, Janice Rahn, Painting Without Permission: Hip-hop Graffiti Subculture, page 7:
      For example, a current trend in graf is to simulate a three-dimensional effect (see Figure 1.2). No one graf artist is associated with having developed this method.
    • 2012, P. D. Smith, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, page 84:
      Naar had been photographing the 'palimpsest of writings and marks on walls' since 1955 and he says his interest in graf is 'political, in the Greek sense of engagement with the life of the "polis", or city-state'.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch graf and graft (see the plural).

Pronunciation

Noun

graf (plural grafte)

  1. grave

Albanian

Alternative forms

Verb

graf (aorist grafa, participle grafë)

  1. Gheg form of grah (to incite; bellow, roar; rattle)[1]

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “graf ~ grah”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 121

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

graf m (plural grafs)

  1. (mathematics) graph

Further reading

Czech

graf
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Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō).

Pronunciation

Noun

graf m inan

  1. graph (mathematical diagram)
  2. (graph theory) graph (nodes and edges connecting the nodes)
  3. chart (graphical presentation)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • graf”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • graf”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English graph.

Noun

graf

  1. graph, visualization of an equation or a function
  2. (graph theory) graph

Declension

Derived terms

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch graf, from Old Dutch *graf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (grave, trench, ditch).

Noun

graf n (plural graven, diminutive grafje n)

  1. grave
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: graf
  • Negerhollands: graf
  • Papiamentu: graf

Etymology 2

From French grave (serious, grave). Most likely influenced by Dutch erg which can mean "serious, grave" as well as "very". The alternative form graaf (very), also slang, has the same origin and meaning, but stays closer to the original French pronunciation.

Adverb

graf

  1. (slang, Belgium) very
    Dat is graf duur — That's very expensive

French

Noun

graf m (plural grafs)

  1. (slang) Clipping of graffiti.
    L’usage du tag et du graf s’affirme d’autant plus comme un pouvoir de communication tribale constituant un code secret.
    The use of tags and graffiti is establishing itself all the more as a means of tribal communication constituting a secret code.

Further reading

Icelandic

Noun

graf n (genitive singular grafs, nominative plural gröf)

  1. graph, chart

Declension

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English graph.

Pronunciation

Noun

graf (plural graf-graf)

  1. (linguistics, typography) graph: A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
    Synonym: huruf

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English graph.

Noun

graf m (genitive singular graif, nominative plural graif)

  1. graph, chart

Declension

Declension of graf (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative graf graif
vocative a ghraif a ghrafa
genitive graif graf
dative graf graif
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an graf na graif
genitive an ghraif na ngraf
dative leis an ngraf
don ghraf
leis na graif

Derived terms

Verb

graf (present analytic grafann, future analytic grafaidh, verbal noun grafadh, past participle grafa)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, literary) write; draw, sketch
  2. (transitive, mathematics, statistics) graph, plot, chart

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of graf
radical lenition eclipsis
graf ghraf ngraf

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Kashubian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Graf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡraf/
  • Rhymes: -af
  • Syllabification: graf

Noun

graf m inan

  1. count
    Synonym: hrabia

Declension

Further reading

  • Sychta, Bernard (1967) “grafa”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 354
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “hrabia”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “hrabia”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • graf”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Middle English

Noun

graf

  1. Alternative form of grave

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English graph.

Noun

graf m (definite singular grafen, indefinite plural grafer, definite plural grafene)

  1. graph (diagram)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English graph.

Noun

graf m (definite singular grafen, indefinite plural grafar, definite plural grafane)

  1. graph (diagram)

References

Old English

Etymology

Uncertain, lacking cognates in other Germanic languages. Perhaps from grafan (to dig), similar to drāf (drove) and drifan.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

grāf ?

  1. grove

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Puppel, S. (2010). Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. Germany: De Gruyter., p. 134-135

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

Adjective

graf m or f (plural graves)

  1. Apocopic form of grave; serious; grave; major
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17v:
      e la coſa graf q̃ nã podrã iudgar adugã la aty. e iudgar laas.
      And any grave matter they cannot judge themselves they will bring to you, so that you may judge it.

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish grof. Doublet of grabia and hrabia.

Noun

graf m pers

  1. (historical) count (male ruler of a county)
    Synonyms: grabia, hrabia
Declension
Derived terms
adjective
nouns

Etymology 2

Internationalism; compare English graph, French graphe, German Graph, ultimately from Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein).

Noun

graf m inan

  1. (mathematics) graph
    Hypernym: wykres
Declension
Derived terms
adjective

Etymology 3

Clipping of autograf.

Noun

graf m inan

  1. (slang) autograph
    Synonym: autograf
Declension

Further reading

  • graf in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • graf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French graph.

Noun

graf n (plural grafuri)

  1. graph
Declension
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative graf graful grafuri grafurile
genitive-dative graf grafului grafuri grafurilor
vocative grafule grafurilor

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Graf.

Noun

graf m (plural grafi)

  1. count
Declension
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative graf graful grafi grafii
genitive-dative graf grafului grafi grafilor
vocative grafule grafilor

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

graf m (genitive singular grafa, plural grafaichean)

  1. graph

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

grȁf m (Cyrillic spelling гра̏ф)

  1. (mathematics) graph
  2. (graph theory) graph

Declension

Swedish

Etymology 1

From English graph, shortened from graphic formula.

Pronunciation

Noun

graf c

  1. (mathematics) graph, the set
  2. (graph theory) graph; an ordered set (V,E) of edges which joins to the vertices such that each of the edge's ends is located at a vertex
Declension
See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

graf c

  1. Obsolete spelling of grav.
Declension

Volapük

Noun

graf (nominative plural grafs)

  1. count (ruler of a county)

Declension

Derived terms