English Explanatory Dictionary

Scharnhorst

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Several locations in northern Germany.
  2. A habitational surname from German, borne by a famous 19th-century Prussian general and military theoreticist.
  3. Several German ships named after the general, including a Kriegsmarine capital ship which participated in WWII.

Pronunciation

/ˈʃɑː(ɹ)nhɔː(ɹ)st/

Word forms

Scharnhorst Scharnhorsts

Etymology

From German Scharnhorst, from Low German Scharnhorst, from Middle Low German Scharnhorst, from scharn (“dirty, damp”) + horst (“wooded hill”), from Old Saxon *skarn + hurst, from Proto-Germanic *skarną + *hursti.

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