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straff
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German
Etymology
From late Middle High German straf, cognate with Dutch straf, with further origin uncertain. However, a semantic connection Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”) (whence Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”)) has been proposed (DWDS).
Pronunciation
Adjective
straff (strong nominative masculine singular straffer, comparative straffer, superlative am straffsten)
- (also figurative) tight, firm, of an object that could also be slack
- ein straffes Programm ― a tight schedule
- c. 1914, Franz Kafka, Der Prozess [The Trial], Berlin: Die Schmiede, published 1925:
- Er wandte ihm sein Gesicht zu, dessen viele straffe Falten nicht Alter, sondern Kraft zu beweisen schienen, und fing sofort wieder zu suchen an.
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Declension
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Derived terms
- Straffheit
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