"Grobian" meaning in German

See Grobian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɡroːbi̯aːn/, [ˈɡʁoː.biˌaːn], [ˈɡʁoːˌbjaːn] (note: seldom) Audio: De-Grobian.ogg
Etymology: 15th century in the form Grobianus, shortened by the 16th century. Humorous formation from grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus. Compare Schlendrian and further Dummerjan, Liederjan (also Dummrian, Liedrian). Etymology templates: {{af|de|grob|-iānus|lang2=la|nocat=1|t1=coarse}} grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus Head templates: {{de-noun|m,s:es􂀿very rare􂁀}} Grobian m (strong, genitive Grobians or (very rare) Grobianes, plural Grobiane) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,s:es}} Forms: Grobians [genitive], Grobianes [genitive, rare], Grobiane [plural], strong [table-tags], Grobian [nominative, singular], Grobiane [definite, nominative, plural], Grobians [genitive, singular], Grobianes [genitive, singular], Grobiane [definite, genitive, plural], Grobian [dative, singular], Grobiane [dative, singular], Grobianen [dative, definite, plural], Grobian [accusative, singular], Grobiane [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. boor, brute, ruffian Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): People Synonyms: Flegel, Lümmel, Raubein, Rohling, Rowdy, Rüpel, Wüstling
    Sense id: en-Grobian-de-noun-Q8and8yg Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "en",
            "2": "grobian",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: grobian",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: grobian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "no",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: grobian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "grubianin",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: grubianin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: grubianin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "grobian",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: grobian",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: grobian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "грубиян",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: грубиян (grubijan)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: грубиян (grubijan)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "grobian",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: grobian",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: grobian"
    }
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        "1": "de",
        "2": "grob",
        "3": "-iānus",
        "lang2": "la",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "coarse"
      },
      "expansion": "grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "15th century in the form Grobianus, shortened by the 16th century. Humorous formation from grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus. Compare Schlendrian and further Dummerjan, Liederjan (also Dummrian, Liedrian).",
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      "form": "Grobians",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobianes",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobian",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobians",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobianes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobian",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobianen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobian",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,s:es􂀿very rare􂁀"
      },
      "expansion": "Grobian m (strong, genitive Grobians or (very rare) Grobianes, plural Grobiane)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,s:es"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "de:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Clown, do not clap the vessel that you bear / In such rough fashion here beneath my nose!",
          "ref": "1819, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Dem Schenken”, in West-östlicher Divan; republished as Edward Dowden, transl., West-Eastern Divan, 1914:",
          "text": "Setze mir nicht, du Grobian, / Mir den Krug so derb vor die Nase",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "boor, brute, ruffian"
      ],
      "id": "en-Grobian-de-noun-Q8and8yg",
      "links": [
        [
          "boor",
          "boor"
        ],
        [
          "brute",
          "brute"
        ],
        [
          "ruffian",
          "ruffian"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Flegel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Lümmel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Raubein"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rohling"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rowdy"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rüpel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Wüstling"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡroːbi̯aːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡʁoː.biˌaːn]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡʁoːˌbjaːn]",
      "note": "seldom"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Grobian.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/De-Grobian.ogg/De-Grobian.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/De-Grobian.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Grobian"
}
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
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            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: grobian",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: grobian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "no",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: grobian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "grubianin",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: grubianin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: grubianin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "grobian",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: grobian",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: grobian"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "грубиян",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: грубиян (grubijan)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: грубиян (grubijan)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "grobian",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: grobian",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: grobian"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "grob",
        "3": "-iānus",
        "lang2": "la",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "coarse"
      },
      "expansion": "grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "15th century in the form Grobianus, shortened by the 16th century. Humorous formation from grob (“coarse”) + Latin -iānus. Compare Schlendrian and further Dummerjan, Liederjan (also Dummrian, Liedrian).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Grobians",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobianes",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobian",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobians",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobianes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobian",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobianen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobian",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Grobiane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,s:es􂀿very rare􂁀"
      },
      "expansion": "Grobian m (strong, genitive Grobians or (very rare) Grobianes, plural Grobiane)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,s:es"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German lemmas",
        "German masculine nouns",
        "German nouns",
        "German terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "de:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
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            [
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          ],
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            [
              20,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Clown, do not clap the vessel that you bear / In such rough fashion here beneath my nose!",
          "ref": "1819, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Dem Schenken”, in West-östlicher Divan; republished as Edward Dowden, transl., West-Eastern Divan, 1914:",
          "text": "Setze mir nicht, du Grobian, / Mir den Krug so derb vor die Nase",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "boor, brute, ruffian"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boor",
          "boor"
        ],
        [
          "brute",
          "brute"
        ],
        [
          "ruffian",
          "ruffian"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Flegel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Lümmel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Raubein"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rohling"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rowdy"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rüpel"
        },
        {
          "word": "Wüstling"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡroːbi̯aːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡʁoː.biˌaːn]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡʁoːˌbjaːn]",
      "note": "seldom"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Grobian.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/De-Grobian.ogg/De-Grobian.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/De-Grobian.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Grobian"
}

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