margraf

margraf (plural margrafs)

1. Alternative form of margrave.
   • 1854, [Edmund] Spencer, Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, London: George Routledge & Co., […], page 87:

     We may ridicule the inertness of the Turk, but how can we sufficiently express our contempt for a mighty emperor, and all the dukes and electors, princes and margrafs, kings and landgrafs of Germany?

   • 1881, [Ebenezer] Cobham Brewer, The Political, Social, and Literary History of Germany from the Commencement to the Present Day, London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., page 50:

     When, therefore, the diet met on the banks of the Rhine, all the dukes, counts, and margrafs of the empire repaired thither, each at the head of a train of armed vassals who encamped on the plains, presenting the appearance of an army summoned to battle, rather than of a comitia assembled to choose a king.

   • 1900, F. W. Fitzpatrick, “The Hohenzollerns”, in William W. Hudson, G. Mercer Adam, editors, Self Culture: A Magazine of Knowledge; With Departments Devoted to Literature, Science, Art and Music, Civics, Education, Religion, and the Home, volume XI, Cleveland, Ohio: Self Culture Magazine Company, […], page 426, column 1:

     Issue of these margrafs and of these knights, the Hohenzollern house owes much to both.

   • 1992, David Crouch, The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000–1300, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

     The margrafs Albrecht of Aschesleben (c.1170) and Otto I of Brandenburg (1170–84) are also distinguished by banners, the former receiving it from St Stephen, the patron of his Stift (monastery).

Borrowed from German Markgraf, from Old High German marcgrāvo. Doublet of margrabia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ɡraf/
• Rhymes: -arɡraf
• Syllabification: mar‧graf

margraf m pers

1. (historical) margrave (administrative officer in charge of a margravate, especially in Germanophone countries)

   Synonym: margrabia

• margraf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from German Markgraf or French margrave.

margraf m (plural margrafi)

1. margrave