rof

Borrowed from English rough.

• IPA^(key): /rɔf/

rof

1. rough, crude, uneven

Borrowed from English rough.

• IPA^(key): /rɔf/
• Hyphenation: rof
• Rhymes: -ɔf

rof (comparative roffer, superlative rofst)

1. (slang) rough, unrefined

• roof, ruffe, rhof, rooff, rufe

From Old English hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą.

• IPA^(key): /roːf/

rof (plural roves or rofes)

1. A roof (top layer of a building):
   1. The outer side of a roof considered separately; the rooftop.
   2. The inner side of a roof considered separately; the ceiling.
2. A house or building; a edifice used for inhabitance.
3. The top of the mouth; the palate.
4. Any sort of cover, especially one that provides shelter.

• rofen

• English: roof
• Scots: ruf, ruif

• “rọ̄f (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.

From Proto-Germanic *rōfō, *rōbō (“number, calculation”), perhaps related to *rōbaz (“strong, virtuous”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to tear, snatch, gather up”). Akin to Old High German ruoba (“number, host, multitude”).

• IPA^(key): /roːf/

rōf

1. vigorous, strong; valiant, brave, keen
   • Beowulf

     Géat unigmetes wél / rófne randwigan restan lyste.

     Eager the Geat, shield-fighter sturdy, for sleeping yearned

2. noble, renowned
   • Beowulf

     ac hé mægnes róf mín costode.

     But he, famed for his strength, tested me.