doff

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɒf/
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• General-American: /dɔf/
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• General-American, cot-caught-merger: /dɑf/
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• rhymes with -ɒf
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• CMU ARPABET: D AO1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *h2epó The verb is derived from Late Middle English doffen (“to take off (clothing); to remove (headwear) as a sign of respect; to remove (grease) by skimming”), a contraction of Middle English do off, don off, from Old English dōn of, from dōn (“to do; to put; to take off, remove”) + of (“from; off”). Dōn is derived from Proto-West Germanic *dōn (“to do; to place, put”), from Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do; to make; to place, put”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- (“to do; to place, put”). By surface analysis, do + off. Compare don (by surface analysis, do + on), dout (do + out), dup (do + up). The noun is derived from the verb.

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: свалям (svaljam) — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Catalan: treure — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Czech: sundat — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Czech: sundat si — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Dutch: uitdoen — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Dutch: ontdoen — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Esperanto: devesti — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Finnish: riisua — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• French: ôter — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• French: enlever — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Italian: togliere — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Latin: exuō — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Māori: unu — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Portuguese: tirar — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Russian: снима́ть (snimátʹ) — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Spanish: quitarse — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Tamil: கழற்று (kaḻaṟṟu) — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Tibetan: ཕུད (phud) — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Vietnamese: cởi — to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)
• Bulgarian: снемам (snemam) — (transitive) to remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect; (intransitive) to remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect
• Czech: smeknout — (transitive) to remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect; (intransitive) to remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect
• Finnish: nostaa hattua — (transitive) to remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect; (intransitive) to remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect
• Russian: снима́ть (snimátʹ) — (transitive) to remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect; (intransitive) to remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect
• Vietnamese: bỏ — (transitive) to remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect; (intransitive) to remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect
• Finnish: vaihtaa — to remove (a bobbin or spindle which is full of yarn) from a spinning frame for replacement with an empty one
• Finnish: kuoria — to remove (small pieces of cotton or other plant fibre, etc.) from a carding cylinder