polder
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊldə/, /ˈpɒldə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: pol‧der
- Rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Noun edit
polder (plural polders)
- (geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes. [from 17th c.]
- 1999, Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage, published 2001, page 43:
- The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.
Translations edit
Verb edit
polder (third-person singular simple present polders, present participle poldering, simple past and past participle poldered)
- To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
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Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
polder (plural polders)
- polder (land reclaimed from a body of water by means of dykes)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, perhaps from polla (“A low ground elevation”),[1] possibly ultimately from an imitative Germanic base related to Old Norse purla (“to babble”) (modern Swedish pollra (“to purl”), Norwegian puldra (“to gush”) and pulla (“to bubble”)), Old English polr (“marsh”), and modern English purl.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
polder m (plural polders, diminutive poldertje n)
Derived terms edit
- general:
- toponyms:
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: polder
- → Caribbean Hindustani: podro
- → Caribbean Javanese: polder
- → English: polder
- → German: Polder
- → Papiamentu: polder
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “polder1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ Proceedings - Volume 2 - Page 137. University of Michigan Press
Further reading edit
- polder on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French edit
Etymology edit
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polder m (plural polders)
Further reading edit
- “polder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
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poldêr (first-person possessive polderku, second-person possessive poldermu, third-person possessive poldernya)
Further reading edit
- “polder” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Polish edit
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polder m inan
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
polder n (plural poldere)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) polder | polderul | (niște) poldere | polderele |
genitive/dative | (unui) polder | polderului | (unor) poldere | polderelor |
vocative | polderule | polderelor |