wharf

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɔːf/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɔɹf/ (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /ˈʍɔɹf/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f === Noun === wharf (plural wharves or wharfs) (nautical) An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore. Synonyms: dock, quay Hyponyms: jetty, pier, (Northern England) staith, (Northern England) staithe (obsolete) Any bank of a river or shore of a sea. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Samoan: uafu ==== Translations ==== === Verb === wharf (third-person singular simple present wharfs, present participle wharfing, simple past and past participle wharfed) (transitive) To secure by a wharf. (transitive) To place on a wharf. === Further reading === wharf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia wharf (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Middle English == === Alternative forms === wherf, wharfe, warrf, wharghfe === Etymology === Inherited from Old English hweorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban, from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hwarf/ === Noun === wharf (plural wharves) wharf ==== Derived terms ==== wharfage ==== Descendants ==== English: wharf Scots: wharf ==== References ==== “wharf, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 December 2019.