Masculine

Führer

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) guide (person who assists people by providing information, giving directions, etc.)
  2. (masculine, strong) guidebook (text which provides information about a topic)
  3. (masculine, strong) leader (someone who is ahead of others)
  4. (masculine, strong) leader (someone who determines the actions of a group)
  5. (in-compounds, masculine, strong) director, manager, commander (person in charge of something or someone)
  6. (formal, in-compounds, masculine, strong) driver, pilot (someone who operates a vehicle of some sort)
  7. (masculine, strong) fugue theme (melody in the form it appears in first in a fugue)
  8. (Nazism, historical, masculine, strong) Führer (Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany)

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fierer

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfyː.ʁɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German füerære, vüerære, füerer, vüerer, from Old High German fôrari, equivalent to führen (“to lead”) + -er. Cognate with Yiddish פֿירער (firer), Cimbrian büurar, Swedish förare. In the historical sense probably a calque of Italian Duce.

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