Drohne

See also: dröhne

German

Etymology

Ca. 1600, from Middle Low German drōne (alongside more common drāne), from Old Saxon drāna, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēnuz.

The Low German form replaced the older Middle High German tren(e), from Old High German treno. The word was originally masculine but became feminine in early modern German, probably under the influence of Biene (“bee”). The fact that drones were males was generally unknown. The aircraft sense is a semantic loan from cognate English drone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʁoːnə/

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• Hyphenation: Droh‧ne

Noun

Drohne f (genitive Drohne, plural Drohnen)

1. drone (male bee)

   Coordinate terms: Bienenkönigin, Arbeiterin

2. (aviation) drone (unmanned aircraft)
3. (dated) sponger, parasite

Declension

Declension of Drohne

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Drohne	die	Drohnen
genitive	einer	der	Drohne	der	Drohnen
dative	einer	der	Drohne	den	Drohnen
accusative	eine	die	Drohne	die	Drohnen

Further reading

• Drohne on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Drohne” in Duden online
• “Drohne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache