scherm

From Afrikaans, from Dutch.

scherm (plural scherms)

1. A temporary shelter made from branches.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company (1907), page 53:

     [W]e went to work to build a "scherm" near one of the pools and about a hundred yards to the right of it. This is done by cutting a quantity of thorn bushes and piling them in the shape of a circular hedge. Then the space enclosed is smoothed, and dry tambouki grass, if obtainable, is made into a bed in the centre, and a fire or fires lighted.

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• Rhymes: -ɛrm

From Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz.

scherm n (plural schermen, diminutive schermpje n)

1. screen, protection
2. awning, sunblind
3. display screen, monitor
4. (botany) umbel

• aanraakscherm
• beeldscherm
• regenscherm
• valscherm
• windscherm
• zonnescherm
• schermbloemige
• afschermen
• beschermen
• schermen

See the etymology of the main entry.

scherm

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

From Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz.

scherm n or m

1. protective screen
2. protection, cover

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: scherm
• Limburgish: sjèrm

• “scherm”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929