graf

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From German Graf (“count”). Doublet of graaf and grave.

graf (plural grafs)

1. (uncommon, now historical) A German or Austrian count (nobleman).
   • 1843 February, "Graf de Tropp", in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 27, [books.google.com/books?id=9ZUtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200 page 200]:

     Without ceremony, the Graf, on his entering the drawing-room, seated himself at the piano-forte, and proposed affording his new friends "a leetle example" how music was performed in Hungary.

• gräfin

Phonetic respelling of clipping of paragraph.

graf (plural grafs)

1. (journalism, slang) A paragraph.
   • 2010 January 27, Matt Taibbi, “Populism: Just Like Racism!”, in True/Slant‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 January 2013:

     Brooks lays out the crux of his case his case in his first three grafs of his article:

   • 2025 February 13, Joshua Benton, “Trump wants news outlets to get on board with ‘Gulf of America’ — or else. Will they?”, in Nieman Journalism Lab‎^[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nieman Foundation for Journalism, retrieved 13 February 2025:

     This Wednesday story includes a graf on Reuters’ stance:

graf (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of graff (“graffiti”).
   • 2002, Janice Rahn, Painting Without Permission: Hip-hop Graffiti Subculture, page 7:

     For example, a current trend in graf is to simulate a three-dimensional effect (see Figure 1.2). No one graf artist is associated with having developed this method.

   • 2012, P. D. Smith, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, page 84:

     Naar had been photographing the 'palimpsest of writings and marks on walls' since 1955 and he says his interest in graf is 'political, in the Greek sense of engagement with the life of the "polis", or city-state'.

• graf artist

• frag

From Dutch graf and graft (see the plural).

• IPA^(key): /χraf/

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graf (plural grafte)

1. grave

• grah — Standard, Tosk

graf (aorist grafa, participle grafë)

1. Gheg form of grah (“to incite; bellow, roar; rattle”)^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾaf]

graf m (plural grafs)

1. (mathematics) graph

• “graf”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “graf”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡraf]
• Rhymes: -af

graf m inan

1. graph (mathematical diagram)
2. (graph theory) graph (nodes and edges connecting the nodes)
3. chart (graphical presentation)

• diagram

• “graf”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “graf”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “graf”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “graf”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From English graph.

graf

1. graph, visualization of an equation or a function
2. (graph theory) graph

• grafteori, grafisk

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɑf/
• Rhymes: -ɑf

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From Middle Dutch graf, from Old Dutch *graf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”).

graf n (plural graven, diminutive grafje n)

1. grave

• graven

• Afrikaans: graf
• Negerhollands: graf
• → Papiamentu: graf

From French grave (“serious, grave”). Most likely influenced by Dutch erg which can mean "serious, grave" as well as "very". The alternative form graaf (“very”), also slang, has the same origin and meaning, but stays closer to the original French pronunciation.

graf

1. (slang, Belgium) very

   Dat is graf duur — That's very expensive

graf m (plural grafs)

1. (slang) clipping of graffiti

   L'usage du tag et du graf s'affirme d'autant plus comme un pouvoir de communication tribale constituant un code secret.

   The use of tags and graffiti is establishing itself all the more as a means of tribal communication constituting a secret code.

• “graf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

graf n (genitive singular grafs, nominative plural gröf)

1. graph, chart

Borrowed from English graph.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraf/
• Rhymes: -ɡraf, -raf, -af, -f
• Hyphenation: graf

graf (plural graf-graf)

1. (linguistics, typography) graph: A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning

   Synonym: huruf

• “graf” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from English graph.

graf m (genitive singular graif, nominative plural graif)

1. graph, chart

• Alternative plural: grafanna

• grafachas m (“graphism”)

graf (present analytic grafann, future analytic grafaidh, verbal noun grafadh, past participle grafa)

1. (ambitransitive, literary) write; draw, sketch
2. (transitive, mathematics, statistics) graph, plot, chart

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “graf”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• grôf

Borrowed from German Graf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraf/
• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: graf

graf m inan

1. count

   Synonym: hrabia

• Sychta, Bernard (1967) “grafa”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 354
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “hrabia”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “hrabia”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]
• “graf”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

graf

1. alternative form of grave

Borrowed from English graph.

graf m (definite singular grafen, indefinite plural grafer, definite plural grafene)

1. graph (diagram)

• “graf” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English graph.

graf m (definite singular grafen, indefinite plural grafar, definite plural grafane)

1. graph (diagram)

• “graf” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Uncertain, lacking cognates in other Germanic languages. Perhaps from grafan (“to dig”), similar to drāf (“drove”) and drifan.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːf/

grāf ?

1. grove

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle English: grove, grave, grof
  • English: grove
  • Scots: grave (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾaɸ]?

graf m or f (plural graves)

1. apocopic form of grave; serious; grave; major
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17v:

     e la coſa graf q̃ nã podrã iudgar adugã la aty. e iudgar laas.

     And any grave matter they cannot judge themselves they will bring to you, so that you may judge it.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraf/

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• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: graf
• Homophone: -graf

Inherited from Old Polish grof. Doublet of grabia and hrabia.

graf m pers

1. (historical) count (male ruler of a county)

   Synonyms: grabia, hrabia

Internationalism; compare English graph, French graphe, German Graph, ultimately from Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein).

graf m inan

1. (mathematics) graph

   Hypernym: wykres

Clipping of autograf.

graf m inan

1. (slang) autograph

   Synonym: autograf

• graf in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• graf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French graph.

graf n (plural grafuri)

1. graph

Borrowed from German Graf.

graf m (plural grafi)

1. count

graf m (genitive singular grafa, plural grafaichean)

1. graph

• clò-ghrafachd

grȁf m inan (Cyrillic spelling гра̏ф)

1. (mathematics) graph
2. (graph theory) graph

From English graph, shortened from graphic formula.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːf/
• Rhymes: -ɑːf

graf c

1. (mathematics) graph, the set ${\displaystyle \left\{(x,F({x}))\right\}}$
2. (graph theory) graph; an ordered set (V,E) of edges which joins to the vertices such that each of the edge's ends is located at a vertex

• diagram
• ritning

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːv/

graf c

1. obsolete spelling of grav

graf (nominative plural grafs)

1. count (ruler of a county)

• grafän