Narr
German (Berlin)
/nar/, /nar/
noun
Definitions
- (poetic) fool a person being stupid or oblivious to facts
- (historical) jester, fool a person employed to feign idiocy, often as a satirical cover for valid political arguments
- freak
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German narre inherited from Old High German narro (stupid crazy person, idiot, clown, fool).
Origin
Old High German
narro
Gloss
stupid crazy person, idiot, clown, fool
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *nārio Latin
- Freiheit German
- Gold German
- Matt German
- Narrenfreiheit German
- Narrengold German
- Narrenmatt German
- arrenslee Dutch, Flemish
- nar Dutch, Flemish
- narrenschip Dutch, Flemish
- narre Middle Dutch
- narro Old High German
- narre Middle High German
- נאַר Yiddish
- נאַריש Yiddish
- נַעַר Hebrew (modern)
- Narr Alemannic German
- nor Slovene
- nar Romansh
- narr Romansh
- Narr Pennsylvania German