German shepherd

German shepherd

English

Etymology

A more commonly used shortening of German Shepherd Dog.

Noun

German shepherd (plural German shepherds)

1. A large-sized breed of dog often used as a guard dog or police dog.

   Synonyms: alsatian (Alsatian), Alsatian shepherd, Alsatian wolf dog, German Shepherd Dog

Derived terms

• German Sheprador
• Sheprador

 

Translations

breed of dog

Afrikaans: Duitse Herdershond Albanian: qen pastori gjerman m Arabic: كَلْب راعٍ أَلْمَانِيّ‎ m (kalb rāʿin ʾalmāniyy) Aragonese: pastor alemán m Armenian: գերմանական հովվաշուն (germanakan hovvašun) Asturian: pastor alemán m Azerbaijani: Alman çoban iti Basque: alemaniar artzain txakur Belarusian: няме́цкая аўча́рка f (njamjéckaja aŭčárka) Breton: ki deñved alamaneg m Bulgarian: не́мска овча́рка f (némska ovčárka) Catalan: pastor alemany m Chinese: Mandarin: 德國牧羊犬／德国牧羊犬 (Déguó mùyángquǎn) Czech: německý ovčák m Danish: schæferhund c Dutch: Duitse herdershond (nl) m, Duitse herder (nl) m Esperanto: germana ŝafhundo Estonian: saksa lambakoer (et) Finnish: saksanpaimenkoira (fi), sakemanni (fi) French: berger allemand (fr) m, berger alsacien (fr) m, berger d'Alsace (fr) Friulian: pastôr todesc m Galician: pastor alemán m Georgian: გერმანელი ნაგაზი (germaneli nagazi) German: deutscher Schäferhund m Greek: γερμανικός ποιμενικός m (germanikós poimenikós), λυκόσκυλο (el) n (lykóskylo) Hebrew: רועה גרמני‎ m Hungarian: német juhászkutya (hu), német juhász Icelandic: þýskur fjárhundur m Indonesian: anjing gembala Jerman Irish: alsáiseach m, aoire Gearmánach m, madra Alsáiseach m Italian: pastore tedesco (it) m Japanese: ジャーマン・シェパード・ドッグ (Jāman Shepādo Doggu), ドイツシェパード (Doitsu Shepādo) Javanese: asu herder Jerman Kashubian: òwczôrk miemiecczi m Kazakh: неміс овчаркасы (nemıs ovçarkasy) Korean: 셰퍼드 (ko) (Syepeodeu) Latvian: vācu aitu suns m Lithuanian: vokiečių aviganis m Lombard: pastùr todèsch m Low German: German Low German: düütsch Scheperhund m Luxembourgish: däitsche Schéiferhond m Macedonian: волчјак m (volčjak), германски овчар m (germanski ovčar) Malay: anjing gembala Jerman Malayalam: ജർമൻ ഷെപ്പേർഡ് (jaṟmaṉ ṣeppēṟḍŭ) Maltese: kelb ragħaj Ġermaniż m Mirandese: pastor aleman m Navajo: łééchąąʼí nidaʼniłkaadígíí Norwegian: schäferhund m Occitan: pastre alemand m Persian: جرمن شپرد‎ (jarman šepard) Polish: owczarek niemiecki (pl) m Portuguese: pastor alemão (pt) m Quechua: aliman michiq allqu Romanian: ciobănesc german m Russian: неме́цкая овча́рка f (neméckaja ovčárka) Scots: German Stoddart, German Hird Scottish Gaelic: buachaille Gearmailteach m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: немачки овчар m Roman: nemački ovčar m Slovak: nemecký ovčiak m Slovene: nemški ovčar (sl) m Spanish: pastor alemán m Swedish: schäfer (sv) c Thai: เยอรมันเชฟเฟิร์ด (yerráman chêffêrt) Turkish: Alman çoban köpeği, Alman kurdu Ukrainian: німе́цька вівча́рка f (nimécʹka vivčárka) Vietnamese: chó bẹc-giê Walloon: bierdjî almand m Welsh: ci defaid Almaenig m West Frisian: Dútske hardershûn

Further reading

• German shepherd at OneLook Dictionary Search
• German shepherd, German Shepherd, German Shepherd dog, German Shepherd Dog at Google Ngram Viewer
• German Shepherd Dog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• German Shepherd Dog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons