DDR

Translingual

Etymology

From German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

Symbol

DDR

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for East Germany from 1974 to 1990.

   Synonym: DD (alpha-2)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of DEU on the reunification of Germany.

Coordinate terms

• DEU (formerly West Germany)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /diː diː ɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /diː diː ɑɹ/

Noun

DDR (countable and uncountable, plural DDRs)

1. (electronics) Initialism of double data rate.
2. (computing) Double-data-rate computer RAM.

Synonyms

• (double data rate (computer)): 2DR

Hypernyms

computing

• DDR1 / DDR-I & GDDR1 / GDDR-I
• DDR2 / DDR-II & GDDR2 / GDDR-II
• DDR3 / DDR-III & GDDR3 / GDDR-III
• DDR RAM, DDR memory, DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM, DDR3 SDRAM
• GDDR, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, GDDR5

 

Related terms

computing

• ODR / 8DR
• QDR / 4DR
• SDR / 1DR

 

See also

• SDRAM
• DIMM
• SODIMM

Proper noun

DDR

1. (historical) East Germany (from German DDR, initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik)
2. (video games) Initialism of Dance Dance Revolution.

Synonyms

• (East Germany): GDR

Further reading

• DDR on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• DRD, RD&D

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German DDR.

Proper noun

DDR

1. Synonym of Østtyskland

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deː.deːˈɛr/

Proper noun

DDR f

1. Initialism of Duitse Democratische Republiek. (German Democratic Republic, GDR)

Finnish

Etymology

From German DDR (“GDR”), the German name of the state, abbreviated from Deutsche Demokratische Republik (“German Democratic Republic”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːˌdeːˌær/, [ˈde̞ːˌde̞ːˌær]

Proper noun

DDR

1. GDR (German Democratic Republic, East Germany)

Declension

Inflection of DDR (type 10/koira) singular plural nominative DDR – genitive DDR:n – partitive DDR:ää – accusative DDR DDR:n – inessive DDR:ssä – elative DDR:stä – illative DDR:ään – adessive DDR:llä – ablative DDR:ltä – allative DDR:lle – essive DDR:nä – translative DDR:ksi – abessive DDR:ttä – instructive – – comitative – –

Synonyms

• Derkkula
• Harppi-Saksa
• Saksan demokraattinen tasavalta

 

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

DDR f (proper noun, genitive DDR)

1. (usually preceded by definite article, historical) Initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic, GDR)

   Coordinate term: BRD

Declension

Declension of DDR [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	DDR
genitive	einer	der	DDR
dative	einer	der	DDR
accusative	eine	die	DDR

See also

• Stasi
• IM
• Zoni
• Ossi
• Wessi

Further reading

• “DDR” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

Etymology

From German DDR, initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik (“German Democratic Republic”).

Proper noun

DDR n (genitive DDR:s)

1. Synonym of Östtyskland

Derived terms

• DDR-Sverige