zucht

• IPA^(key): /zʏxt/

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• Hyphenation: zucht
• Rhymes: -ʏxt

From Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūftu.

zucht m (plural zuchten, diminutive zuchtje n)

1. sigh

• zuchten

• Afrikaans: sug
• Negerhollands: sucht

zucht

1. sigh

• Afrikaans: sug

From Middle Dutch suchte, from Old Dutch suhti, suhte (also sufte which is a hypercorrection), from Proto-West Germanic *suhti, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

Cognate to German Sucht and Old Norse sótt. Related to ziek.

zucht f (plural zuchten, diminutive zuchtje n)

1. longing, desire
2. a pathological desire or craving
3. (usually used in compounds) a disease, sickness

• (pathological desire): bemoeizucht, bloedzucht, drankzucht, eerzucht, hebzucht, ijverzucht, vernielzucht, wraakzucht
• (disease): blauwzucht, bleekzucht, geelzucht, netelzucht, parelzucht, trommelzucht, vetzucht, waterzucht

zucht

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