dorp

From Dutch dorp. Doublet of English thorp.

dorp (plural dorps)

1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 51:

     ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 186:

     I took on a case in the little dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.

• Prod, Prod., drop, prod

From Dutch dorp, from Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.

• IPA^(key): /dɔrp/

dorp (plural dorpe)

1. town
2. village

• → Xhosa: idolophu

From Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą. Doublet of terp.

• IPA^(key): /dɔrp/

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• Hyphenation: dorp
• Rhymes: -ɔrp

dorp n (plural dorpen, diminutive dorpje n)

1. village, hamlet

• brinkdorp
• dorps
• dorpshoofd
• dorpshuis
• dorpskern
• esdorp
• lintdorp
• vissersdorp

• Afrikaans: dorp
  • → Xhosa: idolophu
• → Sranan Tongo: dorpu

• drop