voeren

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu.rə(n)/, [vuː-]

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• Hyphenation: voe‧ren
• Rhymes: -urən

From Middle Dutch voeren, from Old Dutch fuoren, from Proto-West Germanic *fōrijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną, causative of *faraną (modern varen).

voeren

1. (transitive) to guide, lead

   Hij voerde de groep door het museum. ― He led the group through the museum.

   De herder voerde zijn schapen naar de weide. ― The shepherd guided his sheep to the pasture.

2. (transitive) to wage (war)

   Het land voerde jarenlang oorlog tegen zijn buurman. ― The country waged war against its neighbor for many years.

   Ze voerden een stille oorlog, voornamelijk door middel van economische sancties. ― They waged a silent war, mainly through economic sanctions.

   Hoe kun je een oorlog voeren en tegelijkertijd vrede prediken? ― How can you wage war and preach peace at the same time?

3. (transitive) to bear a coat of arms

   De gemeenten Ename en Nederename voeren het wapen van het aloude klooster van Ename. ― The municipalities of Ename and Nederename bear the coat of arms of the ancient monastery of Ename.

4. (transitive) to bear a name unofficially or semi-officially (e.g. in the Middle Ages when names were not entirely fixed yet).

   Zij voert de naam Van Diepenheim. ― She bears the name Van Diepenheim.

• Afrikaans: voer
• Negerhollands: voer

A contraction of voederen, from Middle Dutch voederen, from voeder (“lining”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr (“sheath”).

voeren

1. (transitive) to line (cover the inner surface)

A contraction of voederen (compare the elision of intervocalic -d- in broeder / broer), from Middle Dutch voederen; and possibly also partially from Middle Dutch voeren, vueren (“to feed”), from Old Dutch *fuoron, from Proto-West Germanic *fōrōn, related to Middle High German vuoren, Middle High German vüeren (“to feed”), whence dialectal Alemannic German and Bavarian fueren (“to feed”). Equivalent to voer +‎ -en.

voeren

1. (transitive) to feed

   Synonyms: voederen, voeden

• Afrikaans: voer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

voeren

1. inflection of varen:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

From Old Dutch fuoren, from Proto-West Germanic *fōrijan.

voeren

1. to bring, to carry, to transport
2. to lead (a person)
3. to take (a person, under force)
4. to carry on one's person, to have on oneself
5. to carry out
6. to export, to bring out of the city or land

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• Dutch: voeren
• Limburgish: veure

• “voeren (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “voeren (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I