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English

Etymology

The word is first known in English from the 15th century from Scots. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbô (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??lf/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lf/, /??lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

golf (uncountable)

1. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
2. Golf, the letter G in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Golf”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Verb

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension

     Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

2. (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

Translations

Anagrams

• GLOF, flog

Asturian

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. (sports) golf

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colfus, colphus, culfus, alteration of colpus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos).

Noun

golf m (plural golfs)

1. gulf

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English golf.

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

Derived terms

• golfista

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English golf.

Noun

golf m

1. golf (a ball game)

Declension

Derived terms

• golfový
• golfista

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Golf.

Noun

golf m

1. bay, gulf

Declension

Further reading

• golf in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• golf in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

References

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gelve, from Proto-Germanic *gelban?,Influenced by Late Latin colfus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Hyphenation: golf
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

golf f (plural golven, diminutive golfje n)

1. wave
2. (physics) wave
3. (geography) gulf

Synonyms

• (wave): waag

Derived terms

• arrestatiegolf
• geluidsgolf
• lichtgolf
• microgolf
• radiogolf
• vloedgolf
• zwaartekrachtsgolf

Verb

golf

1. first-person singular present indicative of golven
2. imperative of golven

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/, /??lf/
• Hyphenation: golf
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

golf n (uncountable)

1. golf

Verb

golf

1. first-person singular present indicative of golfen
2. imperative of golfen

Faroese

Etymology

From English golf, from Scots.

Noun

golf n (genitive singular golfs, uncountable)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfbóltur m
• golfbreyt f
• golfleikari m
• golfvøllur m

Finnish

(index g)

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??olf/, [??o?lf]
• Rhymes: -olf
• Syllabification: golf

Noun

golf

1. golf

Declension

Synonyms

• kolopallo

Derived terms

• verbs: golfata

Compounds

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Homophone: golfe

Noun

golf m (plural golf)

1. golf

Further reading

• “golf” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

German

Verb

golf

1. singular imperative of golfen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of golfen

Hungarian

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??olf]
• Hyphenation: golf
• Rhymes: -olf

Noun

golf (plural golfok)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfoz
• golfozik

(Compound words):

• golfklub
• golfnadrág
• golfpálya

References

Icelandic

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Noun

golf n (genitive singular golfs, no plural)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfari m (“golfer”)
• golfbíll m (“golf cart”)
• golfvöllur m (“golf course”)

Italian

Noun

golf m (invariable)

1. golf
2. jumper, cardigan

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English golf

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, uncountable)

1. golf (a game played with a golf club and golf ball)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Italian golfo and French golfe

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, indefinite plural golfer, definite plural golfene)

1. a gulf (large bay)

Derived terms

• Golfstrømmen
• Mexicogolfen

References

• “golf” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From English golf

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, uncountable)

1. golf (a game played with a golf club and golf ball)

Derived terms

• golfbane
• golfklubb
• golfkølle

Etymology 2

From Italian golfo and French golfe

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, indefinite plural golfar, definite plural golfane)

1. a gulf (large bay)

Derived terms

• Mexicogolfen

References

• “golf” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/

Noun

golf m inan

1. golf
2. turtleneck, polo-neck

Declension

Noun

golf m anim

1. Volkswagen Golf car

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of golfe

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French golfe.

Noun

golf n (plural golfuri)

1. gulf

Declension

Etymology 2

From English golf.

Noun

golf n (uncountable)

1. golf

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

golf m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfaš
• golfer

Slovak

Noun

golf m (genitive singular golfu, nominative plural golfy, genitive plural golfov, declension pattern of dub)

1. golf
2. (geography) bay, gulf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfový
• golfský

Further reading

• golf in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??olf/, [??olf]

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

Derived terms

Swedish

Noun

golf c

1. gulf, bay
2. golf; a sport
3. Obsolete spelling of golv

Declension

Related terms

• golfa
• golfare
• golfbana
• golfklubb
• golfklubba
• Mexikanska golfen

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [?on??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?o???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?o???]
• Phonetic: gôn

Noun

golf

1. golf

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch golf.

Noun

golf c (plural golven, diminutive golfke)

1. wave (motion in a liquid)

   Synonym: weach

2. wave, gush
3. wave (in any other medium or field)

   Synonym: weach

4. (in the diminutive) tilde

Further reading

• “golf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Noun

cars

1. plural of car

Anagrams

• CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., csar, sacr-, sarc-, scar

Catalan

Adjective

cars

1. masculine plural of car

Noun

cars

1. plural of car

French

Noun

cars m

1. plural of car

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (car?, “tsar”), itself a borrowing, ultimately from Latin Caesar; cf. the parallel form ?eizars (“emperor”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cars m (1st declension, feminine form: cariene)

1. tsar (male monarch of the Russian empire (especially before 1721); his title)

Usage notes

Officially, the title of cars in Russia was replaced with imperators in 1721, though the word cars, in Latvian as in other languages, continued to be popularly used to refer to the rulers of the Russian Empire.

Declension

Synonyms

• imperators
• karalis
• ?eizars
• (dated term) ??ni?š

Derived terms

• carisks
• cariste
• carisms