rauf

Contraction of herauf.

• IPA^(key): /ʁaʊf/

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rauf

1. (colloquial) up, up here, upstairs (towards the speaker)

   Synonym: herauf

   Er kommt jetzt rauf. -- He's coming upstairs now.

2. (colloquial) up, up there, upstairs (away from the speaker)

   Synonym: hinauf

   Er geht rauf zu den andern. -- He's going upstairs to the other people.

Unlike the standard language, colloquial German does not distinguish the meanings of hinauf (“up there, away from the speaker”) and herauf (“up here, up towards the speaker”). Rauf is used for both meanings.

• hinab, hinunter
• herab, herunter
• runter

• “rauf” in Duden online

From Old Norse rauf.

• IPA^(key): /røyːv/
• Rhymes: -øyːv

rauf f (genitive singular raufar, nominative plural raufar)

1. rift, gap, slot

• nafarsrauf

• rjúfa
• rof

• rifa
• rífa

• fura

• rof

From Proto-Germanic *raubō.

rauf f

1. a gap, a rift, a hole

   Raufar himins.

   The sluices of heaven.

• bakrauf
• gotrauf
• himinraufar
• raufarsteinn (a stone with a hole drilled through it)
• raufartrefjur (a cloth riddled with holes)

• Icelandic: rauf
• Faroese: reyv
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ræv, rauv
• Norwegian Bokmål: ræv
• Swedish: röv
• Danish: røv

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “rauf”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

rauf

1. down, downwards