smurf

(Inglês)

Freqüência

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/smɜːf/
Etimologia (Inglês)

In summary

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”) while he was having dinner, either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

Estrumpfes

Strunf

Smurf

smurfar

estrumpfar

Schtroumpf

Smerf

smerf

Puffo

Auge des Gesetzes

schlumpf

barrufar

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