droge

See also: Droge, dröge, and drogę

Danish

Etymology

From French drogue, from Middle French circa 1462, from Middle Dutch droge (Modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /droːɡə/, [ˈd̥ʁoːwə]

Noun

droge c (singular definite drogen, plural indefinite droger)

  1. drug, medicine (substance which promotes healing)

Inflection


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

droge

  1. Inflected form of droog

Verb

droge

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of drogen

Anagrams


Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrɔɡʲɛ/, [ˈdrɔɡʲə]

Adjective

droge

  1. inflection of drogi:
    1. nominative/accusative neuter singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drōgi, from Proto-Germanic *draugiz.

Adjective

drôge

  1. dry
  2. plain, bare, without anything else
  3. dry, unfriendly (of a person)
  4. died off, lame, unusable (of severely diseased limbs)

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: droog
  • Limburgish: druueg

Further reading

  • droghe (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • droge (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French drogue

Noun

droge m (definite singular drogen, indefinite plural droger, definite plural drogene)

  1. a drug (of animal or vegetable origin)

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French drogue

Noun

droge m (definite singular drogen, indefinite plural drogar, definite plural drogane)
droge f (definite singular droga, indefinite plural droger, definite plural drogene)

  1. a drug (of animal or vegetable origin)

References

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