galge

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyarugē), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), a wasei-eigo derived from English gal + game.

Noun

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galge (plural galge)

  1. (video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.

Afrikaans

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Noun

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galge

  1. plural of galg

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡaljə/, [ˈɡ̊aljə]

Noun

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galge c (singular definite galgen, plural indefinite galger)

  1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
  2. gibbet (an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display)

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Northern Sami

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Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈkalːke/

Verb

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galge

  1. inflection of galgat:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse galgi.

Noun

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galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galger, definite plural galgene)

  1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
  2. a gantry

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse galgi.

Noun

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galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galgar, definite plural galgane)

  1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
  2. a gantry

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Galgen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡâːlɡe/
  • Hyphenation: gal‧ge

Noun

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gȃlge f pl (Cyrillic spelling га̑лге)

  1. (Kajkavian, plural only) gallows
    • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, “Galženjačka”, in The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh:
      Z tega pekla ni nazaj,
      bogcu galge, grofu raj,
      čerleni maj, kervavi maj.
      From this hell there is no going back:
      gallows for the poor man, paradise for the Count,
      a scarlet May, a bloody May.

Swedish

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galge, as in coat hanger

Etymology

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From Old Swedish galghe, from Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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galge c

  1. a gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
  2. a coat hanger
    Synonym: klädhängare

Declension

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