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An onomatopoeia. Similar to English oof and Dutch oef.

uff

1. phew (expression of disgust, tiredness or relief)
2. whew (used before, during or after a mentally or physically strenuous activity, or while thinking of it).

From Middle High German uf, northern variant of ūf, from Proto-Germanic *up.

uff [with dative (indicating location) or accusative (indicating movement)]

1. (dialectal, otherwise obsolete) alternative form of auf

• Found in standard prose until the 18th century. Now used in most Central German dialects and occasionally in colloquial standard German. Especially the adverb druff sees informal standard use (see there).

• “uff” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈuf/
• Rhymes: -uf
• Syllabification: uff

uff

1. on, upon (positioned at the top of) [with dative]

   Das Buch leid uffem Disch.

   The book is lying on the table.

   Die Fraa stehd uff de Brick.

   The woman is standing on the bridge.

2. on, onto, up, to (moving to the top of) [with accusative]

   Er lehd das Buch uff de Disch.

   He's putting the book on the table.

   Ich haue dich uff die Aarschbacke!

   I'm going to hit you on the buttocks!

   Meer gehn uffs Fest.

   We're going to the party.

uff

1. open

   Die Deer is uff.

   The door is open.

uff (not comparable)

1. open

   En uffne Deer.

   An open door.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “uff”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 165, column 1

uff

1. an expression of boredom, impatience or annoyance

uff

1. on

Natural expression.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuff/

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• Rhymes: -uff
• Syllabification: uff

uff

1. whew (expression of relief)
2. whew (expression from strenuous labour)

• uff in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

uff (verbal noun tuffet, Tifinagh spelling ⵓⴼⴼ)

1. (intransitive) to get wet, to be wet, to be soaked
2. (intransitive) to inflate, to be swollen, to be bloated, to be puffy
3. (intransitive, construed with x) to be angry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ʔ-f-f (“to swell”), from Proto-Afroasiatic [Term?], of onomatopoeic origin.

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴼⴼ (aff, “to swell”), Senhaja de Srair uff (“to swell”), Tarifit uff (“to get wet, to be swollen”), Ghadames of (“to swell, blow up”), Zenaga yoˀf (“to be swollen”); Proto-Chadic *fVˀ/w/y- (“to blow, to dry”)^[1]; Proto-Cushitic [Term?] (“to blow”), whence Proto-East-Cushitic *ˀuf(u)f- (“to blow”), & Agaw *ǝf y- (“to blow”); and Egyptian nfj (“to blow, to exhale”).

uff (intensive aorist tuff, Tifinagh spelling ⵓⴼⴼ, Arabic spelling اوفّ)

1. to swell, to be(come) swollen

   اوفّنت تورين نّس. ― uffnt turin nns. ― his lungs swelled (with fear).

2. to pout, to sulk
3. to become breathless

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“breast”), from Proto-Berber *ʔ-f-f (“to swell”), ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic [Term?] (“to blow, to swell”). Synchronically from uff (“to swell”).

Cognate with Ghomara afaf (“nipple”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⵉⴼⴼ (iff, “breast”), Tuareg éfäf, ifef, efăf (“breast”), Siwi ifǝff (“breast”), Northern Saharan Berber if (“breast”), Zenaga ǝvǝffi (“breast”), Kabyle ṯabbucṯ (“breast”), Tachawit ṯabbuct (“breast”), Tarifit abbuc (“breast”), and Proto-Chadic *fufu- (“lungs”)^[2].

• tiffit, tibbit, bubbu, tibbiyt, tibbict, tabubbat

uff m (plural uffan, Tifinagh spelling ⵓⴼⴼ, Arabic spelling اوفّ)

1. breast, nipple

   Synonym: tabubbat

   شركن وفّ. ― šrkn uff ― they suckled at the same breast.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2856b

uff

1. on