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English

Etymology

From Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ?ulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz (compare Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv), from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os (compare Sanskrit ??? (v??ka), Persian ???? (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian ???? (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek ????? (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe). Doublet of lobo and lupus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo?olf
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?lf/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /w?lf/, [w???f], [w??f]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /w?lf/, [w?wf]
• enPR: wo?of, IPA^(key): /w?f/ (now nonstandard)
• enPR: w?lf, IPA^(key): /w?lf/ (obsolete)
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

wolf (plural wolves)

1. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

2. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
3. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

4. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
5. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
6. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
7. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side

8. A willying machine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

Synonyms

• loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover (Southwestern US dialects)

Hypernyms

• (large wild canid): Canis lupus, canid

Hyponyms

• (large wild canid): she-wolf, wolfess

Coordinate terms

• (large wild canid): dingo, dog (members of Canis lupus not called wolf); coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Ido: volfo (also from German)

Translations

Verb

wolf (third-person singular simple present wolfs, present participle wolfing, simple past and past participle wolfed)

1. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Synonyms

• (devour, gobble): gulp down, wolf down

Translations

Further reading

• wolf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• flow, fowl

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wolf, from Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, *wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf (plural wolwe)

1. wolf

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German wolf, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz. Cognate with German Wolf, Dutch wolf, English wolf, Icelandic úlfur.

Noun

wolf m

1. (Carcoforo, Formazza, Gressoney, Issime, Rimella and Campello Monti) wolf

References

• “wolf” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wolf m (plural wolven, diminutive wolfje n, feminine wolvin)

1. wolf, undomesticated Canis lupus

2. one of many other canids of the family Canidae, especially of the genus Canis

Hypernyms

• hondachtige

Hypernyms

• hond

Holonyms

• roedel

Derived terms

Related terms

• welp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wolf

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf m

1. wolf, grey wolf

Inflection

Derived terms

• w?erwolf

Descendants

• Dutch: wolf
  • Afrikaans: wolf
• Limburgish: wólf

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wulf, woulf, wolfe

Etymology

From Old English wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wulf/

Noun

wolf (plural wolves, diminutive wolfy, wolfie)

1. wolf, lupine
2. terrifying person

Descendants

• English: wolf
• Scots: wolf, woulf, wouff

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf m

1. wolf

Descendants

• Alemannic German: wolf (Italian Walser)
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: bolf

  Mòcheno: bolf

  Udinese: bolf, bölf

• German: Wolf
• Hunsrik: Wollef
• Luxembourgish: Wollef
• Pennsylvania German: Wolf
• Vilamovian: w?f
• Yiddish: ??????? (volf)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wolf/

Noun

wolf m (plural wolfa)

1. wolf

Declension

Derived terms

• Wolfgang

Descendants

• Middle High German: wolf
  • Alemannic German: wolf (Italian Walser)
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: bolf

    Mòcheno: bolf

    Udinese: bolf, bölf

  • German: Wolf
  • Hunsrik: Wollef
  • Luxembourgish: Wollef
  • Pennsylvania German: Wolf
  • Vilamovian: w?f
  • Yiddish: ??????? (volf)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf c (plural wolven, diminutive wolfke)

1. wolf

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA^(key): /b??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA^(key): /b??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?r, IPA^(key): /bo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: bore, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

Noun

boar (plural boars or boar)

1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
2. A male pig.
3. A male boar (sense 1).
4. A male bear.
5. A male guinea pig.

Coordinate terms

• sow

Derived terms

• boar-spear
• herd boar

Translations

See also

• hog
• pig
• swine

Anagrams

• Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch boer

Noun

boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)

1. (historical) a Boer

Related terms

• afrikandar

See also

• boer (Bokmål)

References

• “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• bouar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bov?rius or bo?rius (“cow herder”), from Latin bov?rius, bo?rius (“of cattle”), from b?s. Equivalent to bou +? -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.

Noun

boar m (plural boari)

1. cowherd

Related terms

• bou

See also

• v?car

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

1. drill, bore

Further reading

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

Yola

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Middle English bor.

Noun

boar

1. hedgehog

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN