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See also: Orf and ORF

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔːf/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːf

Etymology 1

From Middle English orf, from Old English orf (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *arbī.

Akin to Old English ierfe (“inheritance, livestock, cattle”). More at erf.

Noun

orf (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Cattle.
References

Etymology 2

From the same source as Etymology 1, or from Old Norse hrufa (“scab”), from Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (whence also dandruff).

Noun

orf (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) An exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.
Translations

Etymology 3

See orfe.

Noun

orf (plural orfs)

  1. Alternative form of orfe (the fish)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation spelling.

Adverb

orf (not comparable)

  1. (pronunciation spelling) off
    • 1945, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Secret Room:
      'Yes – you clear orf!' said Mr Goon majestically, feeling that he really had got the better of those interfering kids this time.

Adjective

orf

  1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Preposition

orf

  1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse orf, from Proto-Germanic *wurba-, related to *warpą. Cognate with Swedish orv, Old High German worf.

Pronunciation

Noun

orf n (genitive singular orfs, nominative plural orf)

  1. snath
  2. string trimmer

Declension

declension of orf
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative orf orfið orf orfin
accusative orf orfið orf orfin
dative orfi orfinu orfum orfunum
genitive orfs orfsins orfa orfanna

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Liberman, A. (1982). Germanic Accentology. United States: University of Minnesota Press, p. 165

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English orf, from Proto-West Germanic *arbī.

Pronunciation

Noun

orf (plural orffes)

  1. Stock, cattle; farm animals.
  2. A group of ovines in particular.

Descendants

  • English: orf

References

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