Trump

See also: trump

English

Etymology

The surname has two sources.

• English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”).
• German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections)

Pronunciation

Donald Trump (sense 1.1)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹʌmp/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp
• Homophone: trump

Proper noun

Trump (plural Trumps)

1. A surname from German.
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter XXXII, in Orley Farm‎^[1]:

     The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.

   1. Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality and former president of the United States of America (2017-2021).

      Synonyms: Cheetolini, Donald Trumpet, Drumpf, God Emperor, Mango Mussolini, Orange Man, Trumperor, Forrest Trump, Twitler

      • 2017 December 3, Kayleigh Roberts, “Yara Shahidi Just Asked Hillary Clinton About That Very Uncomfortable Trump Debate”, in Harper's BAZAAR‎^[2]:

        During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.

Derived terms

(all terms are derived from Donald Trump)

• de-Trumpification
• Donald Trumpesque
• Donald Trumpet
• Donald Trumpian
• Donald Trumpish
• FDT
• Forrest Trump
• mini-Trump
• Never Trumper
• non-Trumper
• Retrumplican
• TDS
• Trumpanzee
• Trump bump
• TrumpCare
• Trump country
• Trumpcuck
• Trump derangement syndrome
• Trumpdom
• Trumpean
• Trumper
• Trumperor
• Trumpery
• Trumpese
• Trumpesque
• Trumpet
• Trumpette
• Trumphobia
• Trumpian
• Trumpiana
• Trumpification
• Trumpiness
• Trumpish
• Trumpishness
• Trumpism
• Trumpist
• Trumpista
• Trumpistan
• Trumpite
• Trumpitis
• Trumpkin
• Trumpland
• Trumplandia
• Trumpless
• Trumplican
• Trumplike
• Trumpmania
• Trumpness
• Trumpocalypse
• Trumpocrat
• Trumpoid
• Trumpolini
• Trumpologist
• Trumpology
• Trumpomania
• Trumponomics
• Trumpophile
• Trumpophilia
• Trumpophobe
• Trumpophobia
• Trumpophobic
• Trumposphere
• Trumpski
• Trumpspeak
• Trumpsplain
• Trumpster
• Trumpster diving
• Trumpster fire
• Trumptard
• Trumptastic
• Trump train
• Trumpublican
• Trumpworld
• Trumpy

 

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: donaldtrumpi

Translations

surname

• Albanian: Trampi (indefinite), Tramp (definite)
• Amharic: ትራምፕ (təramp)
• Arabic: تِرَامْب (tirāmb)
• Armenian: Թրամփ (Tʻrampʻ)
• Azerbaijani: Tramp
• Belarusian: Трамп (Tramp)
• Bengali: ট্রাম্প (ṭrampo)
• Bulgarian: Тръмп (Trǎmp)
• Burmese: ထရန့် (hta.ran.)
• Chechen: Трамп (Tramp)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 特朗普 (dak⁶ long⁵ pou²), 侵 (yue) (cam¹)

  Mandarin: 特朗普 (zh) (Tèlǎngpǔ), 川普 (zh) (Chuānpǔ)

• French: Trump (fr)
• Georgian: ტრამპი (ṭramṗi)
• German: Trump
• Greek: Τραμπ (el) (Tramp)
• Gujarati: ટ્રંપ (ṭramp)
• Hebrew: טראמפ, טרוּמְפ
• Hindi: ट्रम्प (hi) (ṭramp), ट्रंप (hi) (ṭramp)
• Italian: Trump
• Japanese: トランプ (ja) (Toranpu)
• Kazakh: Трамп (Tramp)
• Khmer: ត្រាំ (km) (tram)
• Korean: 트럼프 (Teureompeu)
• Kyrgyz: Трамп (Tramp)
• Lao: ທຣັມປ໌ (tha ram pa)
• Latvian: Tramps
• Lithuanian: Trampas
• Macedonian: Трамп (Tramp)
• Mingrelian: ტრამპი (ṭramṗi)
• Mongolian: Трамп (Tramp)
• Persian: ترامپ (terâmp)
• Polish: Trump
• Portuguese: Trump
• Russian: Трамп (ru) (Tramp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Трамп m

• Sinhalese: ට්‍රම්ප් (ṭramp)
• Spanish: Trump
• Tajik: Трамп (Tramp)
• Thai: ทรัมป์ (trám)
• Tibetan: ཐེ་རོན་ཕུ (the ron phu)
• Turkish: Trump
• Ukrainian: Трамп (Tramp)
• Urdu: ٹرمپ (ṭramp)
• Uyghur: ترامپ (tramp)
• Uzbek: Tramp
• Vietnamese: Trăm
• Yiddish: טראָמפּ (tromp), טרומפּ (trump)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Trump is the 8,484^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3,886 individuals. Trump is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.

See also

• Category:en:Donald Trump

Further reading

• “Trump”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Trump”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Trump”, in Collins English Dictionary.

German

Alternative forms

• Trumpf, Drumpf

Etymology

Possibly from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”); see trommeln (“to drum”) and Trommel (“drum”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Trump m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Trumps or (with an article) Trump, feminine genitive Trump, plural Trumps)

1. a surname

Descendants

• → English: Trump