Schiff

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif (“ship, barrel, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship, hollow object”). The sense “nave” is a semantic loan from Latin nāvis.

Cognate with Low German Schipp, West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, Yiddish שיף (shif), English ship, Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

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Schiff n (strong, genitive Schiffes or Schiffs, plural Schiffe, diminutive Schiffchen n or Schifflein n)

1. (nautical) ship

   Synonym: Boot

2. (architecture) nave [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: Kirchenschiff, Langhaus

3. (informal) a large, unwieldy car (e.g. an SUV)
4. (obsolete) vessel (for holding fluids)

   Synonym: Gefäß

5. (dated, regional) boiler (metal container for boiling water in some old stoves and ovens)

   Synonym: Wasserschiff

6. (priting) galley (tray)

   Synonym: Setzschiff

• schiffbar
• schiffen

• → Czech: šíf

• Schiff on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Schiff” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schiff” in Duden online
• “Schiff” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Schiff” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Schiff”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Schiff”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2024

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif.

• IPA^(key): /ʃif/

Schiff n (plural Schiff)

1. ship

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