torf

From Old Norse torf, from Proto-Germanic *turbz. Akin to English turf.

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔrv/
• Rhymes: -ɔrv

torf n (genitive singular torfs, nominative plural torf)

1. sod, turf

• torfa

Borrowed from German Torf, from Middle Low German torf, from Old Saxon turf, *torf, from Proto-Germanic *turbz, from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ-.

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• Rhymes: -ɔrf
• Syllabification: torf

torf m inan

1. (geology) peat (soil)

torf f

1. Alternative form of torf

• torf in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• torf in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “torf”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 24

From Middle Welsh torf, from Proto-Brythonic *torv, from Latin turba (“crowd”). Doublet of twrf.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrv/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrv

torf f (plural torfeydd or torfoedd or torfau)

1. crowd

• seindorf

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “torf”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies