Stirn
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German
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German stirne, from Old High German stirna, from Proto-West Germanic *stirniju.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Stirn f (genitive Stirn, plural Stirnen)
- (anatomy) forehead, brow (often used as an indicator of emotion)
- "Geht es gut?", fragte sie mit gefurchten Stirn.
- "Are you okay?" she asked, her brow furrowed.
- (entomology) frons
- 1994 April 9, Hans-Peter Tschorsnig and Benno Herting, "Die Raupenfliegen (Diptera: Tachinidae) Mitteleuropas":
- So haben die ♂ zum Beispiel meist eine schmalere Stirn und längere Vorderkrallen als die ♀ […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1994 April 9, Hans-Peter Tschorsnig and Benno Herting, "Die Raupenfliegen (Diptera: Tachinidae) Mitteleuropas":
Declension
[edit]Declension of Stirn [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]- Stirnseite f (“front (of a structure); gable end”)
Further reading
[edit]- “Stirn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stirn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Stirn” in Duden online
- Stirn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Stirn”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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