rof

Borrowed from English rough.

• IPA^(key): /rɔf/

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rof

1. rough, crude, uneven

Borrowed from English rough.

• IPA^(key): /rɔf/
• Hyphenation: rof
• Rhymes: -ɔf

rof (comparative roffer, superlative rofst)

1. (slang) rough, unrefined

Deverbal from rjúfa (“to break, to sever”).

• IPA^(key): /rɔːv/
• Rhymes: -ɔːv

rof n (genitive singular rofs, nominative plural rof)

1. break, severance, rupture
2. (geology) erosion, denudation

• roof, ruffe, rhof, rooff, rufe

From Old English hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą.

• IPA^(key): /roːf/

rof (plural roves or rofes)

1. A roof (top layer of a building):
   1. The outer side of a roof considered separately; the rooftop.
   2. The inner side of a roof considered separately; the ceiling.
2. A house or building; an edifice used for inhabitance.
3. The top of the mouth; the palate.
4. Any sort of cover, especially one that provides shelter.

• rofen

• English: roof
• Geordie English: ruif, reuf
• Scots: ruf, ruif

• “rọ̄f, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 July 2018.

From Proto-West Germanic *rōf.

• IPA^(key): /roːf/

rōf

1. vigorous, strong; valiant, brave, keen
   • Beowulf

     Gēat unigmetes wēl / rōfne randwigan restan lyste.

     Eager the Geat, shield-fighter sturdy, for sleeping yearned

2. noble, renowned
   • Beowulf

     ac hē mægnes rōf mīn costode.

     But he, famed for his strength, tested me.