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noun
- 1. a title or form of address for a German-speaking woman: "Frau Nordern"
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Learn the meaning and usage of the German word frau, which can be a noun, a pronoun, or a title. See translations, synonyms, antonyms, and examples from different sources.
Frau is a noun that means a married woman or a wife in German. It is also a title of respect and a term of address for a married woman, similar to Mrs in English.
1. (= weiblicher Mensch) woman. zur Frau werden to become a woman. von Frau zu Frau woman to woman. Unsere Liebe Frau (Eccl) our blessed Lady, the blessed Virgin. 2. (= Ehefrau) wife. sich (dative) eine Frau nehmen (dated) to marry, to take a wife (old) willst du meine Frau werden? will you marry me?, will you be my wife?
The meaning of FRAU is a German married woman : wife —used as a title equivalent to Mrs.. a German married woman : wife —used as a title equivalent to Mrs.… See the full definition
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Etymology
From German Frau.
Noun
Frau (plural Frauen) 1. Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a (usually married) woman among German-speaking people. 1.1. Synonym: Fr. 1.2. Coordinate term: Herr 1.1. 1970, George C[linton] D[ensmore] Odell, Annals of the New York Stage, New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, page 169: 1.1.1. G. von Hoffmann’s Die Ochsenmenuette offered Frau von Berckel as Therese, Scherer as Istock, Lotti as Eduard, and FrauenSchmidt and Esden, and Graff, Lehmann and Kress in minor rôles. 1.2. 2002, Margaret C...
Alternative forms
1. Fràui (Alsatian) 1.1. Fràù (Sierentz) 1.2. Frài (Soultzmatt) 1.3. Froi (Munster (Haut-Rhin)) 1.4. Fròi (Logelheim, Colmar, Durrenentzen, Wintzenheim) 1.5. Fraù (Strasbourg) 1.6. Frœy (Kochersberg, Betschdorf) 1.7. Fráw (Kindwiller) 1.8. Frá (Wingen-sur-Moder) 2. frou (Gressoney Walser)
Etymology
From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe from Old High German frouwa, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”) Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“master, judge”). Cognate with German Frau, Dutch vrouw, West Frisian frou, Icelandic freyja.
Noun
Frau f (Basel) 1. woman 2. wife
Alternative forms
1. Fr. (abbreviation) 2. Fraue (archaic) 3. Fraw, Frawe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from Old High German frouwa (“mistress”), from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”), giving Old English frēa (“lord, king; God, Christ; husband”), frēo (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”). Cognate with Old Saxon frūa (hence Middle Low German vrouwe, Modern Low German frug), Old Norse freyja and frú (hence Icelandic frú and Norwegian frue). Furthe...
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /fʁaʊ̯/ 2. Rhymes: -aʊ̯ 3. Homophone: frau
f , -, -en. a (=weiblicher Mensch) woman. zur Frau werden to become a woman. von Frau zu Frau woman to woman. Unsere Liebe Frau (Eccl) our blessed Lady, the blessed Virgin. b (=Ehefrau) wife. sich ($) eine Frau nehmen dat. dated to marry, to take a wife old.
noun. V-Frau. noun. frau [frau] PRON. one ( feminist alternative to the German masculine form man) das sollte man /frau nicht so ernst nehmen. it should not be taken so seriously. Frau <-, -en> [frau] N f. 1. Frau (weiblicher Mensch): woman. sie ist die Frau meines Lebens. she's the woman of my dreams. selbst ist die Frau!
