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Definitions and meaning of turf

turf

Etymology

From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).

Cognate with Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Swedish torv (“turf”), Norwegian torv (“turf”), Icelandic torf (“turf”), Russian трава (trava, “grass”), Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a kind of grass”), दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɚf/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɜːf/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
• Homophone: TERF

Noun

turf (countable and uncountable, plural turfs or turves)

1. (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
2. (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
3. (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
4. (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
5. (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
6. (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
7. (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
8. (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
9. (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.

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Translations

Verb

turf (third-person singular simple present turfs, present participle turfing, simple past and past participle turfed)

1. To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
2. (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
3. (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.

   Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.

4. (business) To cancel a project or product.

   The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.

5. (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
6. (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.

Derived terms

• turfer
• turf out

Translations

Anagrams

• ruft

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʏrf/
• Hyphenation: turf
• Rhymes: -ʏrf

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch torf, from Old Dutch *torf, from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).

Noun

turf m (plural turven, diminutive turfje n)

1. peat
2. A tally mark representing five.
3. (informal) A fat book, tome; a book containing many pages.

Derived terms

• turfgas
• turfsteker
• turfwinning

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

turf

1. inflection of turven:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• ruft

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈturf]
• Hyphenation: turf
• Rhymes: -urf

Noun

turf (plural turfok)

1. (sports) turf (a racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.)

Declension

Further reading

• turf in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• turfe, torf, tourfe

Etymology

From Old English turf, from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /turf/

Noun

turf (plural turfes or turves)

1. soil, earth

Descendants

• English: turf
• Scots: turr, truff
• Yola: thrive

References

• “turf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /turf/, [turˠf]

Noun

turf f (nominative plural tyrf)

1. turf

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: turf, turfe, torf, tourfe
  • English: turf
  • Scots: turr, truff
  • Yola: thrive

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “turf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French turf, from English turf.

Noun

turf n (plural turfuri)

1. (sports) turf (a racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

turf m (plural turfs)

1. (with definite article, sports) turf (a racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.)