Anschluss

See also: Anschluß

English

Etymology

From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ʃlʊs/

Noun

Anschluss (uncountable)

1. (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]
   • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:

     ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

   • 1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:

     Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.

   • 2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak:

     Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.

Translations

the annexation of Austria into Germany in 1938 or an analogy

• Arabic: آنْشْلُوس m (anšlūs)
• Belarusian: аншлю́с m (anšljús), а́ншлюс m (ánšljus)
• Bulgarian: а́ншлус m (ánšlus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德奧合併／德奥合并, 德奥合并 (Dé-Ào hébìng) (specific to Austria), 合併／合并 (zh) (hébìng)

• Czech: anšlus m
• Danish: anschluss
• Dutch: anschluss (nl) f
• French: anschluss (fr) m
• Georgian: ანშლუსი (anšlusi)
• German: Anschluss (de) m, Anschluß (de) m (old spelling)
• Greek: Προσάρτηση της Αυστρίας f (Prosártisi tis Afstrías), Άνσλους (el) n (Ánslous)
• Hebrew: אַנְשְׁלוּס m (anshlus)
• Japanese: アンシュルス (anshurusu)
• Macedonian: аншлус m (anšlus)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anschluss

• Polish: anszlus (pl) m, Anschluss (pl) m
• Portuguese: Anschluss (pt) m
• Russian: аншлю́с (ru) m (anšljús), а́ншлюс (ru) m (ánšljus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀ншлӯс m

  Roman: ànšlūs (sh) m

• Slovak: anšlus m
• Turkish: Anşlüs
• Ukrainian: аншлю́с m (anšljús), а́ншлюс m (ánšljus)

German

Alternative forms

• Anschluß (superseded)

Etymology

Deverbal from anschließen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʃlʊs/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Austria):

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• Hyphenation: An‧schluss

Noun

Anschluss m (strong, genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

1. connection, joining
2. annexation
3. (historical) Anschluss
4. contact

Declension

Declension of Anschluss [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Anschluss	die	Anschlüsse
genitive	eines	des	Anschlusses	der	Anschlüsse
dative	einem	dem	Anschluss, Anschlusse1	den	Anschlüssen
accusative	einen	den	Anschluss	die	Anschlüsse

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Anschlusskabel
• Anschlusstor
• Hauptanschluss
• Internetanschluss
• Kabelanschluss
• Nebenanschluss
• Telefonanschluss

 

Further reading

• “Anschluss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Anschluss” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Anschluss” in Duden online
• Anschluss on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Anschluss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ʂlus/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anʂlus
• Syllabification: An‧schluss

Proper noun

Anschluss m inan

1. (historical, Nazism) Alternative spelling of anszlus

Declension

Declension of Anschluss

	singular
nominative	Anschluss
genitive	Anschlussu
dative	Anschlussowi
accusative	Anschluss
instrumental	Anschlussem
locative	Anschlussie
vocative	Anschlussie

Further reading

• Anschluss in Polish dictionaries at PWN