Schmacht
German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German smaht, from Old High German smāhi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃmaxt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Schmacht
Noun
Schmacht m (strong, genitive Schmachtes or Schmachts, no plural) (singular only)
- ravenous hunger (great appetite or want for food)
- Synonyms: Appetit, Jieper, Kohldampf
- ravenous hunger (great appetite or want for anything else)
- Synonyms: Begehren, Gier, Jieper, Verlangen
- longing (melancholic desire)
- Synonyms: Liebessehnsucht, Nostalgie, Sehnsucht
Declension
Declension of Schmacht [sg-only, masculine, strong]
singular | |||
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indef. | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Schmacht |
genitive | eines | des | Schmachtes, Schmachts |
dative | einem | dem | Schmacht, Schmachte1 |
accusative | einen | den | Schmacht |
1Now uncommon, see notes.
Further reading
- “Schmacht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schmacht” in Duden online
- “Schmacht”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Schmacht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon