orf

See also: Orf and ORF

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːf/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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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

• “orf”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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

an exanthemous disease

• Irish: salachar béil m

Etymology 3

See orfe.

Noun

orf (plural orfs)

1. Alternative form of orfe (“type of 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

• 'fro, FOR, for, for-, fro

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrv/
• Rhymes: -ɔrv

Noun

orf n (genitive singular orfs, nominative plural orf)

1. snath
2. string trimmer

   Synonym: sláttuorf n

Declension

Declension of orf (neuter)

	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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• orve, oreve, orfe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrf/

Noun

orf (plural orffes)

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

Descendants

• English: orf

References

• “orf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *arbī.

Noun

orf n

1. cattle
2. livestock

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	orf	orf
accusative	orf	orf
genitive	orfes	orfa
dative	orfe	orfum

Descendants

• Middle English: orf, orve, oreve, orfe
  • English: orf

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “orf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.