donner

From Afrikaans donder (“thrash”), from Dutch donder (“thunder”). Doublet of thunder.

donner (third-person singular simple present donners, present participle donnering, simple past and past participle donnered)

1. (South Africa, slang) To beat up; clobber; thrash.
   • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press (2005), ISBN 1770070931, page 167:

     They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.

• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
• A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

• Norden, Rendon, nonred

From Middle French donner, from Old French doner, from Latin dōnāre, present active infinitive of dōnō.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ne/

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donner

1. to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.
2. to donate
3. (intransitive) To come across
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Finalement, ayant perdu l’esprit sans ressource, il vint à donner dans la plus étrange pensée dont jamais fou se fût avisé dans le monde.

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     Finally, having lost his mind completely, he happened to come across the strangest thought in the world of which a crazy person ever conceived.

• donner sur
• don
• donner le jour

• → Romanian: dona

• “donner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

donner

1. First-person singular present of donnern.
2. Imperative singular of donnern.

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre.

donner

1. to give

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: donner
  • → Romanian: dona

• dounnaïr (“Guernsey”)

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre (“give a present; bestow, grant”), from dōnum (“gift, present”).

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donner

1. (Jersey) to give
2. (Jersey, card games) to deal

• bailli

• prendre (“to take”)

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnāre, present active infinitive of dōnō.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̃.ne/

donner

1. to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.
2. to donate

   Il o donnè à l’tchète à chl'église.

   He donated at the church

• don
• foaire don de

donner (third-person singular present donners, present participle donnerin, past donnert, past participle donnert)

1. to stun, shock, stupefy
   • 1879, Mrs. Finlay Cameron, The Auld Hoose: Glimpses of Scottish Life, The Edinburgh Publishing Company (1879), page 69:

     "Doited or no doited, it's a fact thae hae queer daein's aboot thae toons. I haena seen mony o' them; but as for Glasgow, it quite donnered me; and Edinburgh wasna muckle better. […]

• The Online Scots Dictionary