droge

See also: Droge, dröge, and drogę

Danish

Etymology

From French drogue, from Middle French circa 1462, from Middle Dutch droge (Modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /droːɡə/, [ˈd̥ʁoːwə]

Noun

droge c (singular definite drogen, plural indefinite droger)

drug, medicine (substance which promotes healing)

Inflection

Declension of droge

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	droge	drogen	droger	drogerne
genitive	droges	drogens	drogers	drogernes

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

droge

Inflected form of droog

Verb

droge

(archaic) singular present subjunctive of drogen

Anagrams

droeg

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdrɔɡʲɛ/, [ˈdrɔɡʲə]

Adjective

droge

inflection of drogi:
1. nominative and accusative neuter singular
2. nominative and accusative plural

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drōgi, from Proto-Germanic *draugiz.

Adjective

drôge

dry
plain, bare, without anything else
dry, unfriendly (of a person)
died off, lame, unusable (of severely diseased limbs)

Inflection

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Derived terms

drôgen

Descendants

Dutch: droog
Limburgish: druueg

Further reading

“droghe (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
“droge (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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