wharf
English
/wɔɹf/, /wɔːf/, /hwɔɹf/
noun
Definitions
- A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
- The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wharf inherited from Old English hwearf (heap, embankment, wharf).
Origin
Old English
hwearf
Gloss
heap, embankment, wharf
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -carp English
- -carpic English
- -carpous English
- carpo- English
- master English
- side English
- wharfage English
- wharfie English
- wharfing English
- wharfinger English
- wharflike English
- wharfman English
- wharfmaster English
- wharfside English
- carpalis Latin
- carpus Latin
- Werft German
- bouwwerf Dutch, Flemish
- dikwerf Dutch, Flemish
- scheepswerf Dutch, Flemish
- timmerwerf Dutch, Flemish
- werf Dutch, Flemish
- верфь Russian
- κάρπιμος Ancient Greek
- κάρπιον Ancient Greek
- καρπός Ancient Greek
- περικάρπιον Ancient Greek
- πολύκαρπος Ancient Greek
- ἀμπελόκαρπον Ancient Greek
- ἄκαρπος Ancient Greek
- *kerp- Proto-Indo-European
- *hwerbaną Proto-Germanic
- varv Swedish
- *hweorflian Old English
- ahweorfan Old English
- andhweorfan Old English
- behweorfan Old English
- efthweorfan Old English
- forhweorfan Old English
- framhweorfan Old English
- geanhweorfan Old English
- gehweorfan Old English
- geondhweorfan Old English
- hwearf Old English
- hwearfan Old English
- hweorfan Old English
- mishweorfan Old English
- ongeanhweorfan Old English
- onhweorfan Old English
- sinhweorfan Old English
- tohweorfan Old English
- ymbhweorfan Old English
- æthweorfan Old English
- wharf Middle English
- wharfage Middle English
- wharven Middle English
- hvarf Old Norse
- carp Catalan, Valencian
- καρπός Greek (modern)
- werf Middle Dutch
- werf Middle Low German
- hwerf Old Saxon
- ihhofu Zulu
- ⲕⲁⲣⲡⲟⲥ Coptic
- o̧b Marshallese
- wab Marshallese
- wap Tok Pisin