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Sathmar Swabian

Sathmar Swabian noun: a member or descendant of the ethnic German (Swabian) community in Sathmar (Satu Mare), a region now mostly in Rumania with a small part in Hungary.

Noun

Sathmar Swabian (plural Sathmar Swabians)

  1. A member or descendant of the ethnic German (Swabian) community in Sathmar (Satu Mare), a region now mostly in Rumania with a small part in Hungary.
    • Since the final stages of WWII, Romania has not been the only country where substantial groups of Sathmar Swabians can be found.1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority
    • A smaller Swabian group, known as Sathmar Swabians, lives in northern Transylvania, in the Satu Mare district.1991, Report on Eastern Europe, volume 2, issues 27-39, page 32

Adjective

Sathmar Swabian (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to this German community or its lect.
    • At the German department of the University of Timisoara (Temeswar) in the Banat, Romania, a number of Sathmar Swabian linguistic studies were completed during the 1970's.1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority, page 14
    • In the lion's den, I took notes on the recollection of the stories the Sathmar Swabian students had shared with me. Unresolved trauma tends to repeatedly occur like a haunting nightmare. It must have been so for all the Sathmar Swabian […]2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN, page 275

Forms of Sathmar Swabian

pluralSathmar Swabians

Origin of Sathmar Swabian

From Sathmar (“Satu Mare”) + Swabian. Unlike other Danube Swabians, the Sathmar Swabians were primarily from Swabia.

Questions about Sathmar Swabian

What does Sathmar Swabian mean?
Sathmar Swabian means a member or descendant of the ethnic German (Swabian) community in Sathmar (Satu Mare), a region now mostly in Rumania with a small part in Hungary.
What part of speech is Sathmar Swabian?
Sathmar Swabian can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Sathmar Swabian?
The plural of Sathmar Swabian is Sathmar Swabians.

Words near Sathmar Swabian in the dictionary

  1. satgurus
  2. Sathanas
  3. Sather
  4. Sathers
  5. Sathmar
  6. Sathmar Swabian
  7. Sathmar Swabians
  8. Sathonay
  9. sathrophilous
  10. sati
  11. satiability

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