Pferd

From Middle High German phert, pherit, pferift (“riding horse”), from Old High German pherit, pfarifrit, parafred, from Late Latin paraverēdus (originally “substitute post horse”). Largely displaced the native word Ross. Compare Dutch paard and English palfrey.

• IPA^(key): /pfeːrt/, [pfeːɐ̯t] (prescriptive standard; overall rare)
• IPA^(key): /feːrt/, [feːɐ̯t], [fɛɐ̯t] (common in northern and central Germany)
• IPA^(key): /pfɛrt/, [pfɛrt], [pfɛɐ̯t] (common in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

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• Homophone: fährt (some speakers)

Pferd n (strong, genitive Pferdes or Pferds, plural Pferde, diminutive Pferdchen n or Pferdlein n or Pferdelein n or Pferdel n or Pferdl n or Pferderl n or Pferdle n or (less common) Pferdli n or Pferdschen n or Pferdche n or Pferdgen n or (less common) Pferdeken n, masculine Hengst or (if castrated) Wallach, feminine Stute)

1. horse

   Meine Mutter hat ein Pferd und das ist sehr süß.

   My mother has a horse and it is very cute.

   Mein Pferd ist zu schnell.

   My horse is too fast.

2. (chess, informal) knight
3. pommel horse
4. (slang) a woman

• (horse): Gaul m; Ross n (both regional, except in specific senses)
• (chess): Springer m, Rössel n
• (pommel horse): Pauschenpferd

(horse):

• Regional dimimutives

• Flußpferd
• Nilpferd
• Seepferdchen

• “Pferd” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Pferd” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Pferd” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Pferd” in Duden online
• Pferd on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de