grof

From Dutch grof, from Middle Dutch grof, from Old Dutch *grof, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz.

• IPA^(key): /χrɔf/

grof (attributive growwe, comparative growwer, superlative grofste)

1. rude, impolite
2. rough, coarse
3. extreme, gross, grave

From Middle Dutch grof, from Old Dutch *grof, from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz.

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɔf/

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• Hyphenation: grof
• Rhymes: -ɔf

grof (comparative grover or groffer, superlative grofst)

1. rough, coarse
2. rude, very blunt
3. extreme, gross, grave

(either)

(or less commonly)

• fijn

• grofheid
• grofsmid
• grofweg

• Afrikaans: grof
• Berbice Creole Dutch: grofu
• Negerhollands: grof
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: grof (dated)
• → Papiamentu: gròf, grof
• → Sranan Tongo: grofu
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: grofu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: grofu
  • → Saramaccan: goófu

From Old Dutch *grof, from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz.

grof

1. thick
2. large, great
3. course, rough

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: grof
  • Afrikaans: grof
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: grofu
  • Negerhollands: grof
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: grof (dated)
  • → Papiamentu: gròf, grof
  • → Sranan Tongo: grofu
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: grofu
    • → Caribbean Javanese: grofu
    • → Saramaccan: goófu
• Limburgish: graof
• → English: gruff

• “grof (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “grof (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

grof

1. Alternative form of grove

From Hungarian gróf, from Bavarian grâf (“count”).

grof m (plural grofi)

1. (historical) count

grȍf m (Cyrillic spelling гро̏ф)

1. count
2. earl

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔ́f/

grȍf m anim (female equivalent grofíca)

1. count (male ruler of a county)

From Old Norse gróf, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō. Cognate with English greave, groove.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːʋ/, /ɡrɔu̯ː/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -úːv, -úː

gro´f f (definite singular gro´fwă, definite plural grōfwĕn)

1. A ditch.[1]

   lang grofwa ― the/a long ditch

2. A valley, ravine.

• grȫf (“to dyke ditches”)