Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dobermann

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: dober-mann
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large breed of guard dog bred in Germany.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dobermann, from the name of Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, who first developed this breed. Dobermann was born "Tobermann." Tobermann is derived from "Tober" (an Ashkenazic variant of Tauber) plus a suffixal -mann. Tauber is both the name of a river in Germany, and the German word for a pigeon (variant of Taube (“dove, pigeon”), formed [perhaps] to distinguish meaning.) The former is derived from Celtic, the latter from Proto-Germanic. See Dover, dove.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Dobermann

Inflected Forms

Dobermanns (plural) Doberman (alternative)

Synonyms

Dobermann Pinscher

Questions

What does dobermann mean?: A large breed of guard dog bred in Germany.
Where does dobermann come from?: It is traced to German.

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