Graf

• As a German and Jewish surname, from graf (“count”).
• As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Graef.

Graf (countable and uncountable, plural Grafs)

1. (countable) A surname.
   1. A surname from German.
   2. A surname from Dutch.
2. A city in Iowa, United States.

• frag

Borrowed from German Graf.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡraf]

Graf m anim (female equivalent Grafová)

1. a male surname

• “Graf”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːf/, [ɡʁäːf], [ɡräːf], [-ɑː-]
• Homophone: Graph

Inherited from Middle High German grâve, from Old High German grāfio.

Graf m (weak, genitive Grafen, plural Grafen, diminutive Gräfchen n or Gräflein n, feminine Gräfin)

1. count (a member of the German nobility)
2. earl (a British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess)

• → Ottoman Turkish: غروف (gorof)
• → Kashubian: graf
• → Russian: граф (graf)

Graf m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Grafs or (with an article) Graf, feminine genitive Graf, plural Grafs)

1. a surname

Graf m (weak or mixed, genitive Grafen or (nonstandard) Grafs, plural Grafen)

1. (mathematics) alternative spelling of Graph

Graf n (strong, genitive Grafs, plural Grafe)

1. (linguistics) alternative spelling of Graph

• The spelling Graf has been an optional spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform) as of 2006.

• “Graf” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Graf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Graf (Titel, Beamter, Adliger)” in Duden online

From Middle High German graf, from Old High German graf, northern variant of grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą. Cognate with German Grab, Dutch graf, Plautdietsch Grauf, English grave, Danish grav, Icelandic gröf.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀaːf/
• Rhymes: -aːf

Graf n (plural Griewer)

1. grave

• Gruef

• Graf in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire