See also: farm

English

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Proper noun

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the Farm

  1. (UK, slang) Broadwater Farm, an area of Tottenham, North London, England.
    • 2020, Jac Shreeves-Lee, Broadwater:
      And before you mention the plans to fix up the Farm, let me tell you, all that regeneration talk is just about bulldozing the place and shipping us all out to God knows where.

East Central German

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Noun

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Farm

  1. plural of Farb

Further reading

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  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:
  • Pfarrer Wild'sche und einige andre Gedichte, P. 31

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /farm/, [faʁm], [faɐ̯m], [faːm]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Farm

Etymology 1

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19th century, from English farm, from Middle English ferme, farme (rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (rent, lease, farm), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. Both from Old English feorm, fearm, farm (provision, food, supplies, provisions supplied by a tenant or vassal to his lord, rent, possessions, stores, feast, entertainment, haven).

Noun

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Farm f (genitive Farm, plural Farmen)

  1. farm (see usage notes)
    Synonyms: Hof, Bauernhof
  2. (in compounds) a farm that specialises in a particular agricultural product
    Synonym: (with livestock) Zucht
Usage notes
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  • Most typically used of large farms in former colonial regions such as the Americas. Then also used of large or highly industrialised farms elsewhere. Use for smaller, more traditional farms is uncommon, especially with reference to the German-speaking countries or central Europe.
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Etymology 2

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See the main lemma.

Noun

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Farm m (strong, genitive Farmes or Farms, no plural)

  1. Obsolete form of Farn.

Etymology 3

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From Middle High German varm, from Old High German farm (a fast boat, skiff), from Proto-Germanic *farmaz (ferry, ship's lading, cargo, arrival), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (to go across, traverse). Cognate with Old English farm (cargo, freight), Old Norse farmr (load, lading), Dutch varem. Doublet of Prahm, a Slavic loan.

Noun

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Farm m (strong, genitive Farmes or Farms, plural Farme)

  1. (obsolete) barque, small boat
    Synonyms: Kahn, (archaic) Nachen
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Further reading

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  • Farm” in Duden online
  • Farm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache