Fürst

Unadapted borrowing from German Fürst.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪrst]

Fürst m anim (female equivalent Fürstová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Fürst”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

From Middle High German vürste, from Old High German furisto, from the substantivised weak inflection of Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first”). Calque of Latin prī̆nceps.

• IPA^(key): /fʏɐ̯st/, /fʏʁst/

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Fürst m (weak, genitive Fürsten, plural Fürsten, feminine Fürstin)

1. prince (sovereign prince)

• Fürst is the title held by the sovereign ruler of a principality or the head of a noble family. The (non-reigning) descendants of a reigning sovereign prince or other monarch hold the title of Prinz (“prince”) or Prinzessin (“princess”).

• → Danish: fyrste
• → Estonian: vürst
• → Icelandic: fursti
• → Latvian: firsts
• → Polish: firc
• → Silesian: fyszt
• → Swedish: furste

• Fürst on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Fürst” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Unadapted borrowing from German Fürst.

• IPA^(key): [fyrst]

Fürst m pers (female equivalent Fürstová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Fürst”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025