# german
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝ.mən/

### Etymology 1

From Old French germain, from Latin germānus. See also germane, a formal variant which has survived in specific senses. Not related to the proper noun German.

#### Adjective

german (comparative more german, superlative most german)
* (obsolete except in set terms) Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister).
    brother-german
* (obsolete except in set terms) Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin).
    cousin-german
** 1567 Arthur Golding trans., Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, lines 460-2:
    The doubtfull wordes whereof they scan and canvas to an fro. Which done, Prometheus sonne began by counsell wise and sage His cousin germanes fearfulnesse thus gently to asswage:
* (obsolete) Closely related, akin.
** 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:After this Merlyn told vnto kynge Arthur of the prophecye / that there shold be a grete batail besyde Salysbury and Mordred his owne sone sholde be ageynste hym / Also he tolde hym that Basdemegus was his cosyn and germayn vnto kynge Vryence(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:The phrase would bee more Germaine.
** c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Wert thou a Leopard, thou wert Germane to the Lion.

##### Alternative forms

* germane

##### Derived terms

* brother german
* brother-german
* cousin-german
* cousin german
* sister-german

##### Translations
#### Noun

german (plural germans)
* (obsolete) A near relative.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Which when his german saw, the stony feare / Ran to his hart, and all his sence dismayd […]

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From German (“of Germany”).

#### Noun

german (plural germans)
* An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement.
** 1985, Betty Casey, Dance Across Texas, page 49:Through the years, though, the german was replaced by new and more popular dances, but in many instances the name stayed on.
* A social party at which the german is danced.

### Further reading

* German (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Engram, Magner, Manger, engram, manger, ragmen

## Icelandic
### Noun

german n (genitive singular germans, no plural)
* germanium (chemical element)

#### Declension
## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

german m (definite singular germanen, indefinite plural germanar, definite plural germanane)
* (pre-2016) alternative form of germanar

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin germānium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɛr.man/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛrman
* Syllabification: ger‧man
* Homophone: German

### Noun

german m inan
* germanium (chemical element)
** 1992, Monografie z dziejów nauki i techniki, volume 150, page 133:Odpowiada ona germanowi (Ge) = 72,59. W prawie identyczny sposób Mendelejew wyliczył ciężar […] Liczba 73 jest zbliżona, jak wiemy, do wartości ciężaru atomowego germanu.It corresponds to germanium (Ge) = 72.59. In an almost identical way, Mendeleev calculated the weight […] The number 73 is, as we know, close to the value of the atomic weight of germanium.

#### Derived terms

* germanowy

#### Related terms

* germanistyczny
* germanizacyjny
* germanizatorski
* germanofilski
* germanofobski
* germański
* Germania
* Germanin
* germanista
* germanistka
* germanistyka
* germanizacja
* germanizator
* germanizm
* Germanka
* germanofil
* germanofilia
* germanofilizm
* germanofilstwo
* germanofob
* germanofobia
* germanomania
* germanożerca
* germańskość
* germanizować impf
* zgermanizować pf

### Further reading

* german in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* german in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Germānus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒerˈman/

### Adjective

german m or n (feminine singular germană, masculine plural germani, feminine and neuter plural germane)
* German
    Synonym: nemțesc

#### Declension
### Noun

german m (plural germani, feminine equivalent germană)
* a German person
    Synonym: neamț

#### Related terms

* germană

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Germānus, of uncertain origin. First attested in 1679.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɛrˈmɑːn/
* Hyphenation: ger‧man
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Noun

german c
* (historical) A German, a member of the Germanic ethnic and linguistic group who lived in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany.

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | german | germans |
| singular | definite | germanen | germanens |
| plural | indefinite | germaner | germaners |
| plural | definite | germanerna | germanernas |

#### Related terms

* Germanien
* germansk

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: germaani

### See also

* tysk (“German”, adjective; noun)
* tyska (“German [language]”, noun)

### References

* ↑ german in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* german in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)