scherm

From Dutch scherm. Doublet of screen.

scherm (plural scherms)

1. A temporary shelter made from branches.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company, published 1907, page 53:

     [W]e went to work to build a "scherm" near one of the pools and about a hundred yards to the right of it. This is done by cutting a quantity of thorn bushes and piling them in the shape of a circular hedge. Then the space enclosed is smoothed, and dry tambouki grass, if obtainable, is made into a bed in the centre, and a fire or fires lighted.

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• Rhymes: -ɛrm

From Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz.

scherm n (plural schermen, diminutive schermpje n)

1. screen, protection
2. awning, sunblind
3. display screen, monitor
4. (botany) umbel

   Synonym: bloemscherm

• Afrikaans: skerm
• → Caribbean Javanese: sekèrm
• → Indonesian: sekeram
• → Papiamentu: skèrmu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

scherm

1. inflection of schermen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi.

scherm n or m

1. protective screen
2. protection, cover

• Dutch: scherm
  • Afrikaans: skerm
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sekèrm
  • → Indonesian: sekeram
  • → Papiamentu: skèrmu
• Limburgish: sjèrm

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “scherm”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN