forge

English Online Dictionary. What means forge‎? What does forge mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɔːd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔɹd͡ʒ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /foəd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

Etymology 1

From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric.

Noun

forge (plural forges)

1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

   Synonyms: smithy, smithery

3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
4. (computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”).

Verb

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

2. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
3. To form or create with concerted effort.
4. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

5. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.

Verb

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

1. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
2. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Translations

See also

• fabricate
• make up
• blacksmith

Anagrams

• go-fer, gofer

Champenois

Alternative forms

• (Rémois) forde
• (Langrois) fouorge

Etymology

Inherited from Old French forge, from Inherited from Latin fabrica.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɔrʒ/

Noun

forge f (plural forges)

1. (Troyen) a forge

Derived terms

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[3] (in French), Troyes

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin fābrica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁʒ/

Noun

forge f (plural forges)

1. forge (workshop)
2. forge (furnace)

Descendants

• → Catalan: forja
• → Franco-Provençal: fôrge
• → Galician: forxa
• → Italian: forgia
• → Lombard: fòrgia (or from Franco-Provençal)
• → Piedmontese: fòrgia (or from Franco-Provençal)
• → Portuguese: forja
• → Romanian: forjă
• → Spanish: forja

Verb

forge

1. inflection of forger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “forge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French forge, from earlier faverge, from Latin fabrica.

Alternative forms

• fforge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈfɔːrd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈfoːrd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

forge

1. forge (workshop)

Descendants

• English: forge
• Scots: forge

References

• “fō̆rǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

forge

1. Alternative form of forgen

Old French

Etymology

From older faverge, from Latin fābrica.

Noun

forge oblique singular, f (oblique plural forges, nominative singular forge, nominative plural forges)

1. forge (workshop)

Descendants

• French: forge
  • → Catalan: forja
  • → Franco-Provençal: fôrge
  • → Galician: forxa
  • → Italian: forgia
  • → Lombard: fòrgia (or from Franco-Provençal)
  • → Piedmontese: fòrgia (or from Franco-Provençal)
  • → Portuguese: forja
  • → Romanian: forjă
  • → Spanish: forja
• → Middle English: forge, fforge
  • English: forge
  • Scots: forge