wharf

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːf/
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• General-American: /ˈwɔɹf/
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• /ˈʍɔɹf/ without the wine–whine merger
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)f
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• CMU ARPABET: W AO1 R F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: HH W AO1 R F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną Proto-West Germanic *hwerban Old English hweorfan Middle English wharf English wharf From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: skelë — artificial landing place
• Arabic: رَصِيف (raṣīf) — artificial landing place
• Arabic: معبر (maʕbar) — artificial landing place
• Armenian: նավակայան (navakayan) — artificial landing place
• Armenian: նավամատույց (navamatuycʻ) — artificial landing place
• Azerbaijani: iskele — artificial landing place
• Belarusian: пры́стань (prýstanʹ) — artificial landing place
• Belarusian: прыча́л (pryčál) — artificial landing place
• Belarusian: док (dok) — artificial landing place
• Bulgarian: при́стан (prístan) — artificial landing place
• Bulgarian: кей (kej) — artificial landing place
• Burmese: ဆိပ် (hcip) — artificial landing place
• Burmese: ဆိပ်ကမ်း (hcipkam:) — artificial landing place
• Catalan: moll — artificial landing place
• Catalan: embarcador — artificial landing place
• Chinese Mandarin: 碼頭 /码头 (mǎtóu) — artificial landing place
• Chinese Mandarin: 港埠 (gǎngbù) — artificial landing place
• Chinese Mandarin: 埠頭 /埠头 (bùtóu) — artificial landing place
• Czech: přístaviště — artificial landing place
• Czech: molo — artificial landing place
• Czech: přístavní hráz — artificial landing place
• Danish: kaj — artificial landing place
• Danish: brygge — artificial landing place
• Dutch: kade — artificial landing place
• Dutch: kaai — artificial landing place
• Dutch: aanlegsteiger — artificial landing place
• Esperanto: varfo — artificial landing place
• Estonian: kai — artificial landing place
• Finnish: laituri — artificial landing place
• French: quai — artificial landing place
• French: appontement — artificial landing place
• Galician: caes — artificial landing place
• Galician: cai — artificial landing place
• Galician: peirao — artificial landing place
• Galician: peirau — artificial landing place
• Galician: pantalán — artificial landing place
• Galician: embarcadoiro — artificial landing place
• Georgian: ნავმისადგომი (navmisadgomi) — artificial landing place
• Georgian: მისადგომი (misadgomi) — artificial landing place
• German: Kai — artificial landing place
• German: Wharf — artificial landing place
• Greek: αποβάθρα (apováthra) — artificial landing place
• Hindi: घाट (ghāṭ) — artificial landing place
• Hindi: जेटी (jeṭī) — artificial landing place
• Hungarian: rakpart — artificial landing place
• Ido: warfo — artificial landing place
• Indonesian: dermaga — artificial landing place
• Irish: cé — artificial landing place
• Italian: attracco — artificial landing place
• Japanese: 波止場 (hatoba) — artificial landing place
• Japanese: 埠頭 (futō) — artificial landing place
• Japanese: 桟橋 (sanbashi) — artificial landing place
• Kazakh: айлақ (ailaq) — artificial landing place
• Kazakh: кемежай (kemejai) — artificial landing place
• Khmer: ផែ (phae) — artificial landing place
• Khmer: តីរវិថី (təyrĕəʼvithəy) — artificial landing place
• Korean: 부두 (budu) — artificial landing place
• Korean: 선창 (seonchang) — artificial landing place
• Kyrgyz: пристань (pristan) — artificial landing place
• Lao: ທ່າ (thā) — artificial landing place
• Lao: ທ່າເຮືອ (thā hư̄a) — artificial landing place
• Lao: ທ່າຈອດ (thā chǭt) — artificial landing place
• Latin: navalia — artificial landing place
• Macedonian: пристан (pristan) — artificial landing place
• Macedonian: пристаниште (pristanište) — artificial landing place
• Malay: dermaga — artificial landing place
• Māori: wāpu — artificial landing place
• Middle English: wharf — artificial landing place
• Norwegian Bokmål: kai — artificial landing place
• Norwegian Bokmål: brygge — artificial landing place
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kai — artificial landing place
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brygge — artificial landing place
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bryggje — artificial landing place
• Dari: اِسْکَلَه (iskala) — artificial landing place
• Dari: بَارْاَنْدَاز (bār-andāz) — artificial landing place
• Iranian Persian: اِسْکِلِه (eskele) — artificial landing place
• Iranian Persian: بارْاَنْداز (bâr-andâz) — artificial landing place
• Polish: przystań — artificial landing place
• Polish: keja — artificial landing place
• Polish: nabrzeże — artificial landing place
• Portuguese: cais — artificial landing place
• Portuguese: embarcadoiro — artificial landing place
• Portuguese: ancoradouro — artificial landing place
• Portuguese: fundeadouro — artificial landing place
• Portuguese: embarcadouro — artificial landing place
• Romanian: chei — artificial landing place
• Romanian: doc — artificial landing place
• Russian: при́стань (prístanʹ) — artificial landing place
• Russian: прича́л (pričál) — artificial landing place
• Russian: док (dok) — artificial landing place
• Samaon: uafu — artificial landing place
• Sanskrit: घट्ट (ghaṭṭa) — artificial landing place
• Scottish Gaelic: laimrig — artificial landing place
• Serbo-Croatian: пристаниште — artificial landing place
• Serbo-Croatian: pristanište — artificial landing place
• Slovak: prístavisko — artificial landing place
• Slovene: pomol — artificial landing place
• Spanish: embarcadero — artificial landing place
• Spanish: muelle — artificial landing place
• Swedish: kaj — artificial landing place
• Tajik: искала (iskala) — artificial landing place
• Thai: ท่าน้ํา (tâa-náam) — artificial landing place
• Thai: ท่า (tâa) — artificial landing place
• Thai: ท่าเทียบเรือ (tâa-tîiap-rʉʉa) — artificial landing place
• Turkish: iskele — artificial landing place
• Turkish: rıhtım — artificial landing place
• Ottoman Turkish: اسكله (iskele) — artificial landing place
• Ottoman Turkish: ریختم (rıhtım) — artificial landing place
• Ukrainian: при́стань (prýstanʹ) — artificial landing place
• Ukrainian: прича́л (pryčál) — artificial landing place
• Ukrainian: док (dok) — artificial landing place
• Urdu: گھاٹ (ghāṭ) — artificial landing place
• Urdu: جیٹی (jeṭī) — artificial landing place
• Uzbek: pristan — artificial landing place
• Uzbek: iskala — artificial landing place
• Vietnamese: bến tàu — artificial landing place
• Welsh: glanfa — artificial landing place
• Yiddish: דאָק (dok) — artificial landing place