golf

The word is first known in English from the 15th century from Scots. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbô (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɒlf/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /ɡɒf/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlf

golf (uncountable)

1. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
2. The letter G in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

• “Golf” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
   • Rudyard Kipling

     Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

• flog

golf m (uncountable)

1. (sports) golf

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colfus, colphus, culfus, alteration of colpus, from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos).

golf m (plural golfs)

1. gulf

Borrowed from English golf.

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

• golfista

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔlf/

Borrowed from English golf.[1]

golf m

1. golf (a ball game)

• golfový
• golfista

Borrowed from German Golf.[2]

golf m

1. bay, gulf

• golf in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• golf in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔlf/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlf

From Middle Dutch gelve, from Proto-Germanic *gelbaną, Influenced by Late Latin colfus, from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos).

golf f (plural golven, diminutive golfje n)

1. wave
2. (physics) wave
3. (geography) gulf

• (wave): waag

• radiogolf
• vloedgolf
• zwaartekrachtsgolf

golf

1. first-person singular present indicative of golven
2. imperative of golven

Borrowed from English golf.

golf n (uncountable)

1. golf

golf

1. first-person singular present indicative of golfen
2. imperative of golfen

From English golf, from Scots.

golf n (genitive singular golfs, uncountable)

1. golf

• golfbóltur m
• golfbreyt f
• golfleikari m
• golfvøllur m

From English golf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡolf/, [ˈɡo̞lf]
• Hyphenation: golf

golf

1. golf

• verbs: golfata

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golf m (plural golf)

1. golf

• “golf” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

golf

1. Imperative singular of golfen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of golfen.

From English golf.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡolf]
• Hyphenation: golf

golf (plural golfok)

1. golf

• golfoz
• golfozik

(Compound words):

• golfklub
• golfnadrág
• golfpálya

From English golf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlv/
• Rhymes: -ɔlv

golf n (genitive singular golfs, no plural)

1. golf

golf m (invariable)

1. golf
2. jumper, cardigan

From English golf

golf m (definite singular golfen, uncountable)

1. golf (a game played with a golf club and golf ball)

From Italian golfo and French golfe

golf m (definite singular golfen, indefinite plural golfer, definite plural golfene)

1. a gulf (large bay)

• Golfstrømmen

• “golf” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English golf

golf m (definite singular golfen, uncountable)

1. golf (a game played with a golf club and golf ball)

• golfbane
• golfklubb
• golfkølle

From Italian golfo and French golfe

golf m (definite singular golfen, indefinite plural golfar, definite plural golfane)

1. a gulf (large bay)

• “golf” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔlf/

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golf m inan

1. golf
2. turtleneck, polo-neck

golf m anim

1. Volkswagen Golf car

golf m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of golfe

golf m (Cyrillic spelling голф)

1. golf

• golfaš
• golfer

golf m (genitive singular golfu, nominative plural golfy, genitive plural golfov, declension pattern of dub)

1. golf
2. (geography) bay, gulf

• golfový
• golfský

• golf in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From English golf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡolf/

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

• golfista

golf c

1. gulf, bay
2. golf; a sport
3. Obsolete spelling of golv

• golfa
• golfare
• golfbana
• golfklubb
• golfklubba
• Mexikanska golfen

golf

1. golf

Borrowed from Dutch golf.

golf c (plural golven, diminutive golfke)

1. wave (motion in a liquid)

   Synonym: weach

2. wave, gush
3. wave (in any other medium or field)

   Synonym: weach

4. (in the diminutive) tilde

• “golf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011