rollen

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.lə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: rol‧len
• Rhymes: -ɔlən

From Middle Dutch rollen, from Old French roeler.

rollen

1. (ergative) to roll

   De bal rolt langzaam van de heuvel.

   The ball rolls slowly down the hill.

2. (transitive) to dupe, cheat on

   Ze werd opgelicht door een oplichter die haar wou rollen.

   She was scammed by a fraudster who wanted to cheat on her.

3. (transitive) to pickpocket, to pinch

   De zakkenroller rolde zijn zakken en nam zijn portemonnee mee.

   The pickpocket picked his pockets and took his wallet.

• Afrikaans: rol
• Berbice Creole Dutch: loro, rolo
• Jersey Dutch: rolle
• Negerhollands: rol
• → Papiamentu: ròl
• → Saramaccan: lólu, lolá, logodá
• → Sranan Tongo: lolo, rollo
  • → Lokono: lolodon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rollen

1. plural of rol

From Middle High German rollen, from Old French roeler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre, from Latin rotula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔlən/, [ˈʁɔln̩]

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rollen (weak, third-person singular present rollt, past tense rollte, past participle gerollt, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive, of something round) to roll [auxiliary sein]
2. (transitive) to roll (something round, e.g. a wheel) [auxiliary haben]
3. (transitive) to roll (something on its wheels) [auxiliary haben]

• Rolle

• “rollen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “rollen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “rollen” in Duden online
• “rollen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old French roeler.

rollen

1. to roll
2. to tumble

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: rollen
• Limburgish: rólle

• “rollen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “rollen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• rolla

rollen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of rolle

rollen

1. definite singular of roll