drove

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɹəʊv/
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• General-American: /dɹoʊv/
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• rhymes with -əʊv
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• CMU ARPABET: D R OW1 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhreybh- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: көтөү (kötöw) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Bulgarian: черда (čerda) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Bulgarian: стадо (stado) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Czech: stádo — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Dutch: kudde — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• French: troupeau — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• French: manade — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• French: horde — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• German: Herde — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Italian: mandria — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Italian: armento — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Italian: branco — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Māori: whiunga — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Polish: stado — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Russian: гурт (gurt) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Russian: ста́до (stádo) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Serbo-Croatian: stado — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Spanish: manada — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Spanish: tropa (Arg., Bol., Par. and Ur.) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Spanish: arreo — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Spanish: recua — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Turkish: sürü — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Ottoman Turkish: سوری (sürü) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Ukrainian: табун (tabun) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Ukrainian: стадо (stado) — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Welsh: diadell — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Welsh: gyr — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Welsh: praidd — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Welsh: haid — number of cattle driven to market or new pastures
• Bulgarian: тълпа (tǎlpa) — large number of people on the move
• Czech: houf — large number of people on the move
• French: foule — large number of people on the move
• German: Schar — large number of people on the move
• Italian: calca — large number of people on the move
• Italian: massa — large number of people on the move
• Polish: tłum — large number of people on the move
• Russian: толпа́ (tolpá) — large number of people on the move
• Spanish: legión — large number of people on the move
• Spanish: tropel — large number of people on the move
• Turkish: sürü — large number of people on the move
• Ottoman Turkish: سوری (sürü) — large number of people on the move
• Finnish: lauma — group of hares
• Polish: stado — group of hares
• Finnish: karjapolku — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Italian: pista — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Italian: passaggi obbligati — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Italian: attraversamento — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Polish: droga pasterska — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Spanish: cañada — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Spanish: vía pecuaria — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Swedish: boskapsled — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Swedish: fägata — road or track along which cattle are habitually driven — see also droveway
• Finnish: kasteluoja — narrow drain for irrigation
• Polish: wąski kanał irygacyjny — narrow drain for irrigation
• Polish: dłuto kamieniarskie — broad chisel for stoneworking
• Bashkir: ҡыуыу (qıwıw) — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Chinese Mandarin: 趕 /赶 (gǎn) — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Czech: hnát — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Italian: transumare — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Italian: condurre — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Italian: guidare — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Māori: whiu — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Māori: whiuwhiu kararehe — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Polish: naganiać — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Polish: nagonić — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Polish: napędzać — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance
• Polish: napędzić — to herd cattle, to move cattle over a long distance