kultur

• Kultur

Borrowed from German Kultur, from Latin cultūra; doublet of culture.

• IPA^(key): /kʊlˈtuːɹ/

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kultur (uncountable)

1. German culture or civilization, especially seen as authoritarian or racist during the period of world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45)
   • 1963: so much rot spoken about their inferior kultur-position and our herrenschaft – but that was for the Kaiser and the businessmen at home — Thomas Pynchon, V.

• “kultur”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

From Latin cultūra, from colō (“I cultivate, nurture”).

• Rhymes: -ur

kultur c (singular definite kulturen, plural indefinite kulturer)

1. culture

• “kultur” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Dutch cultuur (“culture”), from Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʊltʊr]
• Hyphenation: kul‧tur

kultur (first-person possessive kulturku, second-person possessive kulturmu, third-person possessive kulturnya)

1. culture,
   1. practices and beliefs particular to a society or group.
   2. tillage of crops, collection of (micro-)organisms; cultivation

• (practices, beliefs) kebudayaan
• (crops, cultivation) budi daya, kultivasi
• (microorganism) biakan

• “kultur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

 

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

kultur

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From Latin cultūra, from colō (“I cultivate, nurture”).

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kultur m (definite singular kulturen, indefinite plural kulturer, definite plural kulturene)

1. culture

• “kultur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

 

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

kultur

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From Latin cultūra, from colō (“I cultivate, nurture”).

kultur m (definite singular kulturen, indefinite plural kulturar, definite plural kulturane)

1. culture

• “kultur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

 

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

kultur

Wikipedia ^sv

From Latin cultūra, from colō (“I cultivate, nurture”).

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kultur c

1. culture (customs, etc.)
2. culture ((higher) art, etc.)
3. a culture (group with common culture)
4. (botany, agriculture) culture
5. (microbiology) a culture

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