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Scharnhorst

  • /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)nhɔː(ɹ)st/

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From German Scharnhorst, from Low German Scharnhorst, from Middle Low German Scharnhorst, from scharn (“dirty, damp”) + horst (“wooded hill”), from Old Saxon *skarn + hurst, from Proto-Germanic *skarną + *hursti.

proper noun Scharnhorsts

  1. countable, uncountable Several locations in northern Germany.
  2. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from German, borne by a famous 19th-century Prussian general and military theoreticist.
  3. countable, uncountable Several German ships named after the general, including a Kriegsmarine capital ship which participated in WWII.

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@misc{scharnhorst_2026,
  title = {Scharnhorst},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scharnhorst},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}