margraf

English

Noun

margraf (plural margrafs)

1. Alternative form of margrave.
   • 1854, [Edmund] Spencer, Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, London: George Routledge & Co., […], page 87:

     We may ridicule the inertness of the Turk, but how can we sufficiently express our contempt for a mighty emperor, and all the dukes and electors, princes and margrafs, kings and landgrafs of Germany?

   • 1881, [Ebenezer] Cobham Brewer, The Political, Social, and Literary History of Germany from the Commencement to the Present Day, London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., page 50:

     When, therefore, the diet met on the banks of the Rhine, all the dukes, counts, and margrafs of the empire repaired thither, each at the head of a train of armed vassals who encamped on the plains, presenting the appearance of an army summoned to battle, rather than of a comitia assembled to choose a king.

   • 1900, F. W. Fitzpatrick, “The Hohenzollerns”, in William W. Hudson, G. Mercer Adam, editors, Self Culture: A Magazine of Knowledge; With Departments Devoted to Literature, Science, Art and Music, Civics, Education, Religion, and the Home, volume XI, Cleveland, Ohio: Self Culture Magazine Company, […], page 426, column 1:

     Issue of these margrafs and of these knights, the Hohenzollern house owes much to both.

   • 1992, David Crouch, The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000–1300, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

     The margrafs Albrecht of Aschesleben (c.1170) and Otto I of Brandenburg (1170–84) are also distinguished by banners, the former receiving it from St Stephen, the patron of his Stift (monastery).

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Markgraf, from Old High German marcgrāvo. Doublet of margrabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ɡraf/
• Rhymes: -arɡraf
• Syllabification: mar‧graf

Noun

margraf m pers

1. (historical) margrave (administrative officer in charge of a margravate, especially in Germanophone countries)

   Synonym: margrabia

Declension

Declension of margraf

	singular	plural
nominative	margraf	margrafowie/margrafy (deprecative)
genitive	margrafa	margrafów
dative	margrafowi	margrafom
accusative	margrafa	margrafów
instrumental	margrafem	margrafami
locative	margrafie	margrafach
vocative	margrafie	margrafowie

Further reading

• margraf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Markgraf or French margrave.

Noun

margraf m (plural margrafi)

1. margrave

Declension

Declension of margraf

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) margraf	margraful	(niște) margrafi	margrafii
genitive/dative	(unui) margraf	margrafului	(unor) margrafi	margrafilor
vocative	margrafule		margrafilor