Farm

See also: farm

English

Proper noun

the Farm

1. (UK, slang) Broadwater Farm, an area of Tottenham, North London, England.
   • 2020, Jac Shreeves-Lee, Broadwater:

     And before you mention the plans to fix up the Farm, let me tell you, all that regeneration talk is just about bulldozing the place and shipping us all out to God knows where.

East Central German

Noun

Farm

1. plural of Farb

Further reading

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎ (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40
• Pfarrer Wild'sche und einige andre Gedichte, P. 31

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /farm/, [faʁm], [faɐ̯m], [faːm]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Farm

Etymology 1

19th century, from English farm, which see. The feminine gender may have been influenced by related French ferme f and/or by the synonym Zucht f.

Noun

Farm f (genitive Farm, plural Farmen)

1. farm (see usage notes)

   Synonyms: Hof, Bauernhof

2. (in compounds) a farm that specialises in a particular agricultural product

   Synonym: (with livestock) Zucht

Usage notes

• Most typically used of large farms in (former) colonial regions such as the Americas. Then also used of large or highly industrialised farms elsewhere. Use for smaller, more traditional farms is uncommon, especially with reference to the German-speaking countries or central Europe.

Declension

Declension of Farm [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Farm	die	Farmen
genitive	einer	der	Farm	der	Farmen
dative	einer	der	Farm	den	Farmen
accusative	eine	die	Farm	die	Farmen

Derived terms

• Baumwollfarm
• Fischfarm
• Geflügelfarm
• Rinderfarm
• Schweinefarm
• Straußenfarm

Etymology 2

See the main lemma.

Noun

Farm m (strong, genitive Farmes or Farms, no plural)

1. obsolete form of Farn

Etymology 3

From Middle High German varm, from Old High German farm (“a fast boat, skiff”), from Proto-Germanic *farmaz (“ferry, ship's lading, cargo, arrival”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go across, traverse”). Cognate with Old English farm (“cargo, freight”), Old Norse farmr (“load, lading”), Dutch varem. Doublet of Prahm, a Slavic loan.

Noun

Farm m (strong, genitive Farmes or Farms, plural Farme)

1. (obsolete) barque, small boat

   Synonyms: Kahn, (archaic) Nachen

Declension

Declension of Farm [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Farm	die	Farme
genitive	eines	des	Farmes, Farms	der	Farme
dative	einem	dem	Farm, Farme1	den	Farmen
accusative	einen	den	Farm	die	Farme

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Farm” in Duden online
• “Farm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache